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The Courier Blog: June 2010
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010. Tax dollars, watered down. There are times when you just have to wonder who’s thinking these days. Tuesday morning, a team of two were busy watering the hanging baskets out front of our office on Milltown Boulevard in St. Stephen. This would be Tuesday, June 8, the second day after five centimetres of rain deluged the area, and the day after baseball folks were hoping for a string of warm, sunny days to dry out soggy, water-laden baseball fields. Your tax dollars at work. If you st...
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The Courier Blog: November 2010
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Saturday, November 27, 2010. Please, just count this time, OK? It was a Sunday, and the newsroom of the Prince Albert Daily Herald was abnormally packed. Two "deskers" - an industry term for layout editors, a sports reporter, myself, and a general news reporter gathered around the television on a chill night. (They're all chill at that time of the year: one of the reasons I wanted to move here! We knew, we all knew, that the psyche of an entire province lay in the play ahead. My job that night was to co-...
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between the endpapers: July 2012
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July 23, 2012. Democracy don’t rule the world. You’d better get that in your head. This world is ruled by violence. But I guess that’s better left unsaid. Union Sundown / Bob Dylan. Steven Spielberg is sometimes condescendingly described as a "family filmmaker," as if family were not one of the more profound aspects of our experience. His instinct for the family dynamic has offered intimacy to many a big-budget premise-the struggling single mother in ET. The couple teetering on divorce in Close Encounters.
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between the endpapers: March 2013
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March 22, 2013. The Way to Calvary. Every Execution has its history. Such a film is Lech Majewski’s The Mill and the Cross. Now, I will say viewing this film takes a certain amount of patience, and may not be for everyone. In most films, CGI is synonymous with a certain level of action that is not present in The Mill and the Cross. However, for those with an interest in art history, unconventional narrative, or simply something outside standard cinematic fare, The Mill and the Cross. March 9, 2013. Of co...
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between the endpapers: June 2013
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June 18, 2013. Oh, that heavenly smell of a new book.Why can't they bottle that scent? Anyway, on my way to… I was talking to a delightful woman in a bookstore and asked her if she had any recommendations. She led me through the shelves, picked up these books, hugged them to her chest professing her love. Okay, sold. Books (aka flypaper) that a passionate bookseller hugs are good with me. Better Than Fiction by Lonely Planet. Okay, yes, I'm a bit biased. But this anthology is great! You’re a femini...
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between the endpapers: June 2012
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June 12, 2012. Oh, that was nothing,” his modesty after brilliance his most disarming charm. 8221; Mute and dazed, she declines. But we need Paul Henreid to light one for us. Yep, the Hays Office really did miss the dance. Thank God. Yes, his sister, Adele. For the duration of their astonishing 27-year partnership, the longest in his life — it began when Fred was 5 and Adele 8 — she was the undisputed star of the duo. In her fascinating new book, “The Astaires,”. Riley performs the great service of givin...
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between the endpapers: May 2013
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May 28, 2013. Summer . . . Even a casual glance at the news could make you think the empire is crumbling fast. If so, should I not urge you to undertake a cultural boot camp this summer that would prepare you for the moment when the walls collapse and -my worst fear -we’re on our own? The books would all preach self-reliance; the music would be the soundtrack of aerobics. By September, you’d have the bodies of Marines and the mental toughness of Spartans. Then I thought: Why? The Queen’s Gambit. The auth...
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between the endpapers: August 2012
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August 31, 2012. 50 Shades of Grey . . . Gasped Anaethesia, "That's just overwhelming.breathtaking! And all for you Anaethesia," growled Chris Blimey, charismatic, damaged and dangerous - the sort of Top Designer that knows his way around columns.a guy who put syncopation in his presentations. Nner Goddess did a mental pole dance, before putting her back out and having to be helped to the divine pearl grey divan. Yes, it was truly the biggest display of neck vanity Anaethesia had ever. Ms Edna, sorry but...
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between the endpapers: September 2013
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September 2, 2013. Painting light into the canvas. 8220;Women in the 17th century are allowed to smoke, write, correspond with Descartes, wear spectacles, insult the Pope, and breast-feed babies.”. 8220;There is no history there are only historians…”. From 1600-1680 we can put forward a compelling claim that Rembrandt is the greatest painter since the Renaissance and, that in the 1640’s Amsterdam is the center of the world, a city on the make with the foxes in the hen house. This intriguing and revelator...
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between the endpapers: October 2014
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October 17, 2014. A year ago I stumbled onto Dan Brown’s Inferno. To compare some of the quotes I opened a copy of Dante’s Inferno. Not the video game, but the first book of the Commedia. Trilogy, and began to read the first lines:. 8220;Midway along the journey of our life. I woke to find myself in some dark wood,. For I had wandered off from the straight path.”. Yes, I thought, I know what that’s like. 8220;How hard it is to tell what it was like,. This wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn.
