All Entries Tagged With: "rant"

Rant: Is Expanding the Best Picture Category a Good Thing?

A few months ago when I first heard that next year’s Academy Awards was expanding the ‘Best Picture’ category from five nominees to 10 nominees there’s been one question lingering in my head ever since. Why? The obvious explanation is that a majority of the Academy for Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (or whichever association [...]

Why I love and hate Amazon

Putting everything that happened with AmazonFail aside for a second, I truly love the website Amazon because it does a fantastic job of commercializing products, not just in a marketing sense but also in terms of informing the public of products should they decide on purchasing a specific item. In addition, I’m able to easily [...]

“Pygmy” Tour Comes to Toronto

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Just wanted to remind readers that if you’re in the Toronto Area this week and are a big Chuck Palahniuk fan, he will be giving a reading at Victoria College’s Isabel Bader Theatre on May 12 at 7:00 p.m. on tour for his latest novel, Pygmy. General admission is $10 and the event [...]

Rant: “If All the SF Magazines are Closing, How Am I Going to Get Published?”

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Now this statement may be a bit of an exaggeration, but think about all of the changes that are happening in the world of publishing today; less books are being produced by publishing houses (and being purchased by customers), top level editors and agents are being firing in the midst of corporate restructuring, [...]

Twilight and why I can’t stand it

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Here’s a typical day for me. I wake up at seven o’clock in the morning. Head to downtown Toronto where I work from 9 to 5 as an assistant editor for two trade magazines. Once I get hoome after a quick [...]

Why is the Sarah Connor Chronicles Doomed to Fail

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Let me be very clear. I have no insider information regarding the future of this show. Yet every time I faithfully tune in every Friday to watch  Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles there’s something very inauthentic about this show [...]