Over the weekend I met up with “J Frank Willis.” She/he was on her/his way north, anxious to spend some time in a Wonderous Canoe to get away from it all. We went to Starbucks. Willis brought the laptop and the National Post and I bought the coffee. We talked and Googled and this is […]
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Allan: Solutions "R" Us
June 10, 2007 – 9:18 am
Allan sends me his comments on yesterday’s National Post story “Saving CBC with yellow stickies.”Enjoy.~O Bullshit artists can often be quite brilliant.Take Mark Shekter.He’s a “television consultant”, and he knows something you don’t.And neither does the CBC, apparently, and they’re prepared to pay big bucks for new ideas to stay in business.Isn’t being a manager […]
Today in CBC history
June 5, 2007 – 8:27 pm
On this day in 2006, portly CBC Chief Technology Officer and Senior Nerd Raymond J Carnovale attempted to pass through the turnstile to the plum elevators. His passcard was rejected, the turnstile locked up on him, and he nearly damaged his dongle. While the coffee he was carrying was not severely spilled, the surveillance video […]
Did George turn down Canadian Idol?
June 4, 2007 – 8:20 pm
There’s an interesting moment at 26:40 in the interview George did with the Stroumboulopouli: “I mean I took that show in the States and it bombed, and it was an amazing experience, and I was offered a show that’s a huge show here now and I turned it down. And people said to me ‘that’s […]
Allan: He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands
June 1, 2007 – 4:09 pm
Another from the tirelessly fearlessly AllanEnjoy.~O Break out the gas masks.Avi Lewis is back.Reduced to a half hour following the “success” of last fall’s The Big Picture, Avi returns to CBC Newsworld on Monday night with a brand new show entitled On The Map.But it’s not the satirical send-up of cartography that one might expect.Instead, […]
The end of the design department
June 1, 2007 – 3:58 am
Yesterday was the last day for the design department. As of today, June first, it’s gone. That’s it. It’s been a bitter, painful, drawn-out goodbye. On the last day there was only deathly silence from all corners, a strange contrast to the exuberant “Flying Higher” of just a few days before. You’d almost think they […]
