You CAN Handle the Truth: Thankful Thursday
How does that saying go? A friend will help you move. A real friend will help you move a body! …
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Celebrities
Review: The Bellwether Effect
Bellwether. Noun. The leading sheep of a flock with a bell on its neck. …
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Robo-lit
This is what happens when you’re an artist to the core and your parents leave you too much money and land! …
A (Film) Star is Born
This review is only about a month late – not bad! It’s the earliest late review I’ve written in some time. We celebrated my first day without needing a nap by going to a matinee of A Star is Born. …
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The First Freelance Friday
The question I’ve been asked most often this week is, how long will it take you to sleep past 3 am? …
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Review – Not Dead Yet by Phil Collins
Phil Collins gets it. He was ubiquitous for a long time (some say too long) in the 1980s. Even he got tired of himself. …
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Where Few Have Traveled
I’m starting the week with a post that’s part fan-letter, part information-sharing via my former colleague, Avery Haines. We were coworkers at CKFM/MIX/CFRB roughly a century ago. We saw David Cassidy and Danny Bonaduce perform together! Now, she’s an investigative journalist with W5 and she’s just back from North Korea. …
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My Limit of F***s
When Donald Trump made fun of sexual assault victim Christine Blasey-Ford, I knew I was close. When he walked up the steps of Air Force One with toilet-paper stuck to his shoe, and no one told him, my laughter created a little bit of room for more. But the confirmation of undoubtedly biased Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court nailed it. I’m out of f***s. …
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Keep Talking
The human voice fascinates me. This is probably not surprising! But a new study out of Western caught my attention. …
The Ultimutt Radio Show
Meet Pickles. Pickles is about to become a famous dog. He’s not just a performer, he’s a bit of a miraculous survivor. …
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Happy Birthday E!
This is what a true friend does. She has her birthday twelve days before me, to make sure it’s safe for me to follow!  …
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Social Outcasts
Jian Ghomeshi wrote an essay about what his life has been like since he became a pariah. In the piece for the New York Review of Books Ghomeshi admits some stuff and ignores other stuff but mostly just explains how his life has changed. It’s a rare and fascinating character study. …