"Being Canadian" Dept.:

"Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn anything about their neighbour to the North."
- Peter Jennings

Gonna miss you, Peter. Your battle with cancer made for a horribly untimely loss, and we're sorry you're gone. Still, you did leave before ( Read more... )

Wisdom For The Ages Dept.:"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us ( Read more... )

The current literary scene, as seen by someone who's a part of it:

"Popular culture now hates high culture so much that it campaigns aggressively against it. High culture now fears popular culture so much that it insulates itself deliberately from it. As for the rest of us -- we're inundated with the former, often alienated from the latter. And if ( Read more... )

In a conversation about our movie influences and the stuff that made us fans, one of my local Live Journal pals, 32elvismovies, asked the question "Why would anyone ridicule Elwy?" after I had mentioned that Elwy Yost, the former host of TV ONTARIO's SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES is sometimes mocked by people who see themselves as more movie-literate than he is ( Read more... )

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."
. - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

he WAS a Democrat, after all.

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
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