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Shame Day: Sun News
Sun News and New Prosperity Mine Some of you may remember the report I wrote this past summer describing the debate over the New Prosperity Mine application in Williams Lake. I attended a few debates...
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5 Lessons from the HIMYM finale
So, How I Met Your Mother is finally over. And the internet is pissed. Spoilers below, obviously. This is what everyone wishes they could do to the writers. I think there are some legitimate arguments...
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Shame Day: Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, and Writers Who Kill Everyone
Before we get started I should probably give the obligatory warning about spoilers. Spoilers below, beware! [Seriously, there are a lot of spoilers -Ed.] So, I watch Game of Thrones. I watch it for the...
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I Shouldn’t Have To Say This, But Community Should Be Good [Or At Least Better]
It’s one of those weeks where Friday rolls around and I find that I’m writing my fifth post of the week. Granted, two of them were reviews and one of them I co-wrote, but it’s still a lot. One of my...
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2 Broke Girls, S3E22 “And the New Lease on Life”: A TV Review
It’s been over a week, I know, but it’s still hard for me to get past the fact that Eric Andre aka Deke Bromberg aka Max’s boyfriend who literally lived in a dumpster is no longer with us. With the...
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Re: Meet The Poster Child For ‘White Privilege’ – Then Have Your Mind Blown
I have never been asked to “check my privilege”. That is by no means indicative of my actual status in life, one that’s already vastly higher than most by virtue of being born in a First World country....
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Culture War Correspondence: Music – Catchiness vs. Content
KAT: Greetings friends! Tonight Evan and I bring you a topic that is close to the heart of anyone with the ability to hear (or feel vibrations): music. EVAN: In particular, we’ll be discussing lyrics,...
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Let Me Tell You “What Happened To Music?”
I enjoy a pretty broad range of music. It’s not just severe differences in genre [from Joshua Radin's "Winter" to "Squeeze Me" by Kraak and Smaak], it’s stuff that spans several generations. From Elvis...
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David Goyer is the Worst, And We’re On A Break
So this post could be the logical continuation of my Shame Day post on Akira, which focused on Hollywood’s complete lack of respect for a film they’re looking to remake. David Goyer, a man I already...
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Not A Review Of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
The book in question, the eighth by Gabrielle Zevin, an author more known for her YA [young adult] fare, is one that I have altogether too many thoughts about. I’m choosing not to dub this post a...
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Will Blogging Now Come Back to Haunt Me Later?
The short answer is yes. In many ways I don’t mind putting my thoughts out on the no man’s land we call the internet. I’m sure Foucault would have all kinds of things to say about the kind of...
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Fixing Exorcism Movies
The Exorcist came out in 1973, and while pretty tame by today’s standards, was nonetheless an iconic film which arguably gave birth to the entire “exorcist-film” genre. Of course, by “genre”, I mean a...
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Storing Characters: If Not The Fridge, Then Where?
Not all appliances are created equal, and that certainly rings true for longtime readers of comic books. While some of us have discovered the phrase simply by taking part in the discourse that...
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Ms. Marvel, #4: A Comic Book Review
What better time to take a look back at the fourth issue of Ms. Marvel than today, on the eve of its sixth? As I mentioned in my last review, I missed out on this due to being abroad in a place where...
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Ms. Marvel, #6: A Comic Book Review
Not only is this the first full issue of no holds barred genuine superhero-ing as we all expect it, it’s also the first team-up the all-new Ms. Marvel has ever had and the first installment sans series...
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Ms. Marvel, #7: A Comic Book Review
If I want to be honest with all of you, which I do, the fact is that comic book characters don’t change all that much. That’s a gross overgeneralization, so let me backtrack a little: comics don’t...
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Fixing Ghost Movies
A while back, we had a discussion on everything wrong with our attempts to make exorcism movies. Good ones, anyways. That done, I figured we might try to keep the ball rolling and talk today about how...
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Don’t Just Hire Minority Creators [Promote Hiring Them, Too]
It should be absolutely no secret to any and all of you that I’m an advocate for diversity. There are a myriad of different reasons for this, from the “it would be nice…” of seeing a little more colour...
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Thoughts on Season 8 of Doctor Who (i.e. Will Peter Capaldi Kill the Doctor?)
I’m going to be touching on the first five episodes of Season 8 of Doctor Who in this article, so I want to give you fair warning before reading on. Ever since Peter Capaldi was announced as the new...
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Ms. Marvel, #9: A Comic Book Review
I probably should have mentioned this in my review for the last issue, but the new story arc that started with Issue #8 is titled “Generation Why”, and this week’s installment brings us to the halfway...
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