James Jones at the end of history
Mon, 05/21/2012 - 07:02 by Douglas Haddow
NBA fanaticism today for people my age, or at least for my friends, is a clubhouse where access to the clubhouse is contingent on a memory of certain images.
FEMEN Versus Euro 2012
Thu, 05/17/2012 - 01:56 by Douglas Haddow
Spinners and Boozers
Thu, 05/17/2012 - 01:40 by Douglas Haddow
The alternative choice had a weak J, she said, pointing to the sign at the door. So they decided to go with a different typeface – one that still conjured up the idea of history and presented the fortitude the opposition party needed to get whatever message it was it had across to the people of Canada.
Go Right: Videogames as High Art
Mon, 05/14/2012 - 05:34 by Douglas Haddow
"When I was your age, Pluto was a planet."
- Some woman on the bus the other day, talking on her iPhone
Hello Darkness
Mon, 05/14/2012 - 00:23 by Douglas Haddow
So here we are in Ottawa, in the Year of Our Lord, Two-Thousand and Twelve and already deep into the new politics of immigration, a course set and championed by the Conservative government, and more specifically by immigration minister Jason Kenney, the Harper-in-waiting. And in comes Conrad Black, the spurned Canadian newspaper baron – a sort of Dickensian hangover icon of late 19th Century nostalgia, right down to his exile back to the Old Country at the hands of a chastened prime minister.
Coast Modern
Wed, 05/09/2012 - 10:54 by Douglas Haddow
If you’ve ever caught yourself flipping through reruns of MTV Cribs wishing authors and designers got the same treatment, Coast Modern is likely a refreshing way to spend an hour of your life.
Video tribute to Maurice Sendak
Tue, 05/08/2012 - 17:24 by vanessa
The world has lost one of its finest creative heroes. Maurice Sendak, the artist/illustrator/author of Where the Wild Things Are, and many, many more works that ignited the imaginations of children and adults alike, passed away today in Connecticut from complications of a stroke at the age of 83.
Notes From The Hill
Sun, 04/29/2012 - 13:36 by Douglas Haddow
Most days, the debate in the House of Commons humps the line between inane and insane for the gawking obsessives, the press gallery, who like to watch but can’t touch. The only difference is there’s no hockey. Not anymore.
Buried Life
Fri, 04/27/2012 - 10:29 by Douglas Haddow
Have you ever experienced this? You're sitting with a friend, listening to them describe an idea, a new project they're working on and you're like..."Shit, That's a great idea. Why the fuck didn't I think of that?"
Pull up a stool at The Bottleneck
Thu, 04/26/2012 - 23:04 by Douglas Haddow
I heard some folks from The Commodore Ballroom had opened a bar this spring called The Bottleneck. So after work one day, I decided to go and check it out.
