My article on the strange case of Maria Monk and her connections to anti-Catholic propaganda and the nun as a fetish archetype has been published in Maisonneuve magazine's 10th anniversary issue. (Print only, for the moment.)

This was my first article in a national, glossy magazine for a while, and I hope this carries with it some prestige. It took ( Read more... )

My article on the polygamy court decision's impact on polyamorist families is finally up on the Vancouver Courier.

I've already received an email arguing: "You know as well as I do that in the human experience of groups there is always an alpha male and alpha female; also, children are more apt to be abused by those adults in a group who are not ( Read more... )

It's up on the Tyee.

I've been a big fan of David Cronenberg for years, not only for his movies themselves, but for his ways of thinking about art and creation and censorship. He's a fascinating interview subject.

So, when I got the opportunity to write about him (or rather, get paid to write about him), I jumped at it, got every book about him I ( Read more... )

My news story on the BC polygamy court decision is now up on the Vancouver Courier's site.

This was my first news story (as opposed to feature) in a long time, and it was tough squeezing this complex issue and lengthy background into 430-words of inverted pyramid. I'm so used to writing in narrative.

To editorialize: The judgment itself mostly works ( Read more... )

The BC Supreme court is finally announcing the decision about the polygamy law on Wednesday, and I've somehow wrangled the job of covering it for a local biweekly. (This is after the feature article I did on it got delayed until the new year ( Read more... )

By chance, I dropped by the Occupy Vancouver camp on Saturday, just a few hours after Ashlie Gough had died. The police, fire department and coroners were still there. I remember walking around, getting a sense of what had happened from overhearing chatter, and wondering if I should start interviewing people. I even had an audio recorder in my cell ( Read more... )

My article on "Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: 21st Century Neo-Gothic" has been cited in Eve Bennett's "Deconstructing the Dream Factory: Personal Fantasy and Corporate Manipulation in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse", published in Slayage Volume 9, Issue 1. (PDF warning)

The author is right, I could have drawn a stronger comparison between Dr Saunders and Bertha ( Read more... )

My latest is up on Openfile.ca, and includes my first attempt at an audioslide, or soundslide, which is an audiotrack accompanied by a sequence of still images. The closest thing I have to a video camera is my smart phone, so I don't think that's really good for professional work.

I edited the audio in Audacity, then imported it into Windows Movie ( Read more... )

My major step in job hunting yesterday was the cover letters workshop. I always thought of cover letters as one of the least important parts of the job acquisition process, basically just high-lighting the relevant parts of your resume. I admit I got a bit cranky and moved into "critical iconoclast" mode, asking why all the emphasis on empty ( Read more... )

Again, nothing done towards landing a permanent job today. I spent most of the day at the copyright conference at the Waldorf Hotel (with all due respect, I just don't get the tiki aesthetic). Mark Hosler of Negativland was kind enough to sign (in blurry magic marker) a DVD, along with a warning: "Do not sell on eBay".

Copyright is a pretty ( Read more... )