Today’s music picks are gaggle of songs that absolutely rock in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. I’m not much of a movie goer and since I skipped this years ComicCon I completely missed the buzz for Scott Pilgrim. Just by chance I went to see it last weekend in Toronto and was blown away at [...]
This beautiful video is the work of singer/songwriter Tanya Davis and filmmaker Andrea Dorfman. It was shot in Halifax, which gives it a comfortable homey feel to me… reminds me of my hometown. Best lesson from this? Something I’ve known for a long while, and makes me a better person. Alone is ok. via Madeline [...]
Last night marked the premier of StoryCorps‘ animated series on PBS. They will be releasing an animated version of some of their best recorded interviews during the program POV over the next few months… I’ve blogged before about how moving and inspiring the project is. As founder Dave Isay states, “StoryCorps grew out of a [...]
via boingboing.net Absolutely love this short film by Gabriel Psaltakis Posted via email from Posterous
Two weeks ago I invited my parents to join me in seeing Dave Isay speak at KPCC’s Crawford Family Forum to celebrate my 27th birthday. After the close of the evening they were both inspired and touched that I would invite them to attend such an event, let alone make this night (which focused on [...]
Here’s a beautifully written post from NPR on how NBC’s coverage of the Olympics is broken, my emphasis in bold and commentary at the bottom: Let us put aside for a moment the rah-rah, “Go Team USA” focus of the NBC coverage that often bugs viewers who would like a more global view of the [...]
There’s a healthy dose (maybe unhealthy depending on your point of view) of Olympic fever in my household right now. I have been watching every shred of TERRIBLE coverage by NBC; swearing at their website every day, trying to find feeds of the CTV coverage in Canada, and scanning the Twitter feeds of every friend, [...]
We all know that it can’t be Christmas (for most of us) without a little alcohol to grease the wheels… The same goes for a Tiki Bar TV episode. And boy is there a lot of grease on the wheels… Some favorite lines: “He won’t be undersold, I will be undersold under him, I’ll give [...]
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