Next Thursday, assuming I can keep the panic attacks at bay, I’ll be conducting live exit interviews in front of a raucous, beer-swilling crowd at Conor O’Neills, as part of Concentrate Media’s moderately-distinguished speaker series. (It’s free, and open to the public, but, if you’d like to attend, you need to register in advance.) Here, […]
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R.E.M. and the legacy of that perfect circle of acquaintances and friends
I wasn’t going to post anything here about the recent news that R.E.M. was breaking up, until, at the gym this morning, I heard two network morning show talking heads going back and forth about how they’d only started appreciating the band in recent years. I suppose they could have meant that they were really […]
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Unflattering Mark Maynard
Here’s the end product of my hour-and-a-half long session with Reverend Aitor, who, by the way, was a really nice guy. As he’s from Toronto, we talked a lot about Degrassi Jr High. While certainly unflattering, it could have been worse… At least the Reverend chose to portray me as human, and not some hybrid […]