Monthly Archives: January 2009

And Hubert takes no responsibility

But Sylvain Lafrance has “taken note”. That’s leadership. $60,000 Harvard leadership.

Where’s Erica?

Time travel is such a cool concept. Especially when you can go back and show old friends how much your skills have improved. Old tricks Sunday night at 9, new tricks on Monday

"We are not racist, not at all"

Two nice looking white people.Who happen to be French.And Canadian. But they’re not like those other Canadians, the english-speaking ones they refer to as “inbred” and “frigid”.And they’re absolutely not racist. Yes, you can be an executive at the CBC and still be a total fucking moron. The GazetteVéronique Cloutier, producer and president of Novem, […]

Karplukked

I cut short my morning espresso and raced via light rail to the David Frum Atrium for the sneak peak, or whatever it was called, of Being Erica. Excitement builds Not quite makeup (they’re roadies) Shooting Being Erica was “the greatest five months ever!” Karpluk enthused, also more or less admitting she was dragged back […]

It could be worse. No, it couldn’t.

Only grown-ups may write comedy for the CBC.Or maybe not.

Get Karplukked tomorrow in the Atrium

Watch Being Erica with Erica (Friday, January 9, noon). Then ask Erica important, probing questions like “OMIGOD where’d you get those shoes‽”

Astroturfed

CBC astroturfs a fake blog for Erica. So that’s it, then.

Slow to refresh

Perhaps it’s the browser …

jDoyle upChuck

jDoyle: Wild Roses is by, for and about women. Oh, there are men in it and some if them even speak and do stuff, but it’s all about women. It’s a sort of Sex and the City of Calgary.… It’s another CBC show aimed at drawing female viewers. And it’s another CBC show aimed at […]

Wild Ballses

Told you so.

Being Erica’s Fishnets

Lifetime Achievement

In a world filled with daring humour, and brilliant satirists, The Royal Canadian Air Farce managed to do what none of the other shows could.To write a show that wasn’t funny.And to do so consistently for more than twenty years.A record that may never be surpassed.One hopes. Biggest laugh of the nightYes. We are a […]

Wikipedia cofounder nearly ousted by spider-tattooed ex-CBCer

From Valleywag: How did Wales come to this embarrassing pass? The former porn merchant and options trader, who has traded sex and money for his help in getting Wikipedia entries edited, has met his Machiavellian match, in the form of Sue Gardner, a Gothy, spider-tattooed Canadian pop-culture expert who now runs the site he helped […]

50 Tracks for Obama

We did this once before. Actually twice. But fresh ideas can be hard to come by. Just ask Maestro Fresh Wes, who suggests that Obama listen to.. um, Maestro Fresh Wes.