Wow. Just, Wow.
London has exactly one television station. Â Yup. Â One. …
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Dum-Dums and Dumber
It’s just about the silliest thing to come out of London City Hall and that’s saying something. …
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Chaz and all of the Different Kids
I’ve never watched, nor will I likely ever watch Dancing With the Stars. Â But this season I’ve been kind of interested in how one contestant has been doing in the competition: Chaz Bono. Â …
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Occupying Our Minds
About a hundred Londoners travelled east on the 401 for the Occupy Toronto protest on the weekend. Â …
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Hindsight Breeds Contempt
Even though it gets a lot of criticism the 1980s was a great decade. Looking back on the big hair, bad clothes and crappy music gives me a smile! But at the time, of course, we didn’t know our hair was outrageously big, our pastel clothing with big shoulder pads was gauche and our music was garbage. Some of us wondered what happened to rock and roll, when we bothered to stop dancing long enough to think about it. …
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Diluting Language
Sesame Street is adding a new Muppet. Lily is described as having “food insecurity”. In other words her family is poor and she is hungry. …
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Lance Romance
It can’t just be wealth and fame that make Justin Bieber so romantic. He’s 17, not a typical age for grand gestures of amour. …
The Lynch Mob
I adore Jane Lynch. Whether she’s track-suited up in Glee or doling out sarcastic advice to Charlie Harper in Two and a Half Men, she’s always the best thing about a scene. …
Why??
The Toronto International Film Festival has taken over that city and made the masses a little goofy with star-struck wonderment. …
A Fair Experience
It’s corny (and corn-doggy) but I love the Western Fair. …
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The Ballad of Herb Welsh
We watched a rerun of last season’s Saturday Night Live which included a parody of an old, out-of-touch newsman, Herb Welsh, who misses the point of stories and rants at the news anchor for being “a can of hairspray”. …
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Little Girl Lost
Photos of 10 year old Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau actually make me feel queasy. Sadly, that’s not the effect they will have on all adults who look at them. …