Archive for June, 2004
E-rritations
Why do so many people slip into a strange kind of communication when they get on e-mail? The same goes for posting on message boards.
Why *for example* are there SO many people who think it’s not *completely* and *utterly* irritating to read so MANY emphasized words. Have we lost our ability to decipher sentences?
why do [...]
Irshad and Me
An in-depth article on Irshad Manji, professional shit disturber, appears in the May issue of Toronto Life, which I have only just finished reading. You may have seen her on Global National, spouting off about something or another as a political commentator. I don’t know if her controversial book, The Trouble With Islam, is any [...]
Read More..>>Disappointment On My Radio
On my way home from Muskoka this morning I punched around to hear what Toronto stations are doing in the early hours. Since I’m normally on the air at that time, I don’t very often get the chance to hear the competition.
This is what I heard.
A guy filling in for the usual host, sounding timid [...]
My Most Memorable Student
Last night, I listened to a colleague explain why he no longer teaches a radio course at a community college. It seems he got in some trouble with the administration for telling a student who had a terrible lisp that he would never make it as an on-air person – he would be better suited [...]
Read More..>>Brian Linehan RIP
Brian Linehan died today. He and I weren’t close friends by any stretch but we were “pals” as he put it and had one of those friendships that picked up easily, with no awkwardness, after stretches of not seeing each other.
Brian took me under his wing at CFRB and gave me his blessing to encroach, [...]
