Tod Maffin isn’t writing Inside the CBC anymore. It will now be a full-on propaganda outlet for CBC. In fact, we are to send inquiries to Kevin Payan, Maffin’s boss (erstwhile and de facto) and an esteemed colleague of Jeff Keay. Here is the comment the current owners of that blog refused to post: Well, […]
Monthly Archives: September 2008
‘Quick, Fire’ Challenge
September 8, 2008 – 6:03 am
This advertisement was custom-situated between Bloor St. and Bistro 990 – in other words, in the lunchtime flightpath of Toronto International Film Festival nabobs. Special to Wandering Coyote: Do you still contend that The Hour is not a full-on celebrity-interview show?
We the jury
September 7, 2008 – 10:07 am
Aren’t you glad you aren’t a juror on the CBC Anthem Challenge? You’d have to agree to the following, according to a source: Work for nothing: “I have not requested, and will not request, any financial compensation.†Go through 100 entries before the end of the contest. (Yes, before that time.) They now have over […]
Thank Goodes. He’s gone
September 7, 2008 – 10:02 am
A guest post by Allan. It’s been easy to sit and sneer at all the whiners over at Inside the CBC who can’t stand radio change. But when I awoke to hear that Jeff Goodes had abruptly left the weekend morning show Fresh Air, I frankly got a little misty. I had only discovered Jeff […]
‘Reardon lives’
September 5, 2008 – 8:57 am
Seen 7½ months after the “season†finale of Intelligence, these wheatpasted (“snipedâ€) handbills have outlasted the actual show.
What do you think of the new Oi!?
September 4, 2008 – 2:55 pm
It may seem like forever, but your new Oi! employee portal is still young. The Oi! Team is serious about knowing what you think of it. Dead serious. In fact, our jobs depend on it. So be a dear and fill out this survey. Don’t make us put a hold on your next paycheque. The […]
Separated at birth?
September 4, 2008 – 10:19 am
Using a bank gothic Using the same bank gothic, but with a descending J
FAILwatchâ„¢ (1)
September 4, 2008 – 10:17 am
A couple of posts I was planning are probably not going to work out. I know who the designer of the commoncase CBC font is: Aaron King of Pure NY, a motion-graphics house also responsible for the credits for New Amsterdam (using Mrs Eaves typeset outside the NTSC safe area). There is the dim possibility […]
Kirstine Layfield: ‘Don’t take my picture’
September 4, 2008 – 6:05 am
A guest post by… Allan! (Yes.) Dear Pen Pal, I took your advice and stopped watching The Hour.It was really irritating me and now I feel much better. This weekend the Foo Fighters and Oasis will pass through where I work. Do you think I should try and get an interview with them?Hey, maybe I […]
Moving on to the Paralympics
September 3, 2008 – 9:41 am
Did you know that Canada’s elite athletes are going back to Beijing? Only this time they’re crippled! Every two years, people pretend to have been interested in Olympic sports all along. Our amnesia kicks back in immediately after the closing ceremonies, leaving the Paralympics adrift in a sea of indifference. (It could be worse: In […]
Chill? George
September 2, 2008 – 12:15 pm
Strombo interviewed in beer magazine. (Overlook the lapse attested by the question “What makes you laugh?â€) I was going to leave MuchMusic anyway, I was 31, twice the age of some of the audience, and I just didn’t connect to that kind of pop culture. Pop culture to me is an iceberg, the pop is […]
‘We can’t rewind. We’ve gone too far’
September 2, 2008 – 10:59 am
Weisblott wondered what the first song on Buck 65’s Drive would be. “Video Killed the Radio Star†“Dreamer†by Jenn Grant and Orchestra for the Moon. (It’s on right now.) Spoiler alert!
In case you didn’t notice
September 2, 2008 – 10:01 am
I’m now publishing even more! and making it more convenient! for you the customer! The former Tumblr linkblog was OK, I guess (I liked the blog-a-photo feature), but the Flash widget is too weird and I was falling prey to a network effect. So I’ve moved over to the market leader, the new, improved-or-at-least-unfucked Delicious. […]
jDoyle
September 2, 2008 – 9:50 am
jDoyle on Gossip Girl: [I]t has very low viewer ratings but everybody knows about it. Teenagers watch it on their laptops and the series has one of the highest levels of delayed-viewing on PVRs. At the same time, certain elements of the media are obsessed with it. The cast has been featured on magazine covers […]
