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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Don’t Miss TV

Set your PVRs.  Do not miss ZOS, Zone of Separation.  Malcolm MacRury’s 8-part series begins tonight on TMN.
For more on ZOS, Alex Epstein, Jude Klassen and Diane Kristine all have interviews with Malcolm.
Malcolm brought a couple of episodes out one night late last year for a small group of writers to screen.   The show was […]

Reblocking Anyone?

We’ve talked a lot here lately about Twitter and other virtual experiences helping writers reclaim their voices.   But some times, after long days of blogging, tweetering, writing Facebook notes and commenting on my friends blogs, my own voice starts making me feel slightly nauseated.  If you feel the same way, perhaps you’d like to join […]

Everybody Hates Apparitions… except me

I’m late to the party on this one, despite getting a timely invitation.  I finally caught the first episode of the BBC miniseries Apparitions.  Seems like the athiests hated it.  The Catholics hated it.  And it didn’t do all that well in the ratings.  But I thought the first episode was terrific.
Maybe I’ve finally gotten […]

Having trouble getting anything written between answering emails, cruising the web and Tweeting obsessively?  Check out Cory Doctorow’s recent blog post on Writing in the Age of Distraction.
The single worst piece of writing advice I ever got was to stay away from the Internet because it would only waste my time and wouldn’t help my […]

Twitter-AGO-Go

I visited the newly renovated AGO yesterday for the first time and fell madly in love.  I was overwhelmed by expansive emotions that want to be shared.  So I whipped out my iPhone and began tweeting.  @mcphadenmike @inkcanada @johncallaghan @Positronics @Mutanto @jennschac among others were there to greet me and responded enthusiastically to my enthusiasm.
I’ve […]

The Wire: The Complete Series Rap

Almost my first post on this blog, almost two years ago, was about the pilot episode of The Wire.
The Complete Series of The Wire is out on DVD.  You could buy it or relive it through the rap posted below.  Mind you watching the rap will only make you want to own the DVDs.

What a […]