Author Archives: Mike

The Proxy Marriage

Posted on 19 May, 2012 by Mike

Maile Meloy has a new short in the May 21st issue of the New Yorker, called “The Proxy Marriage.” New Yorker fiction is often ambivalent, emotionally stunted, or downright bleak. (I’m looking at you, Annie Proulx’s “Tits-up In A Ditch.”) … Continue reading →

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Urban legends

Posted on 1 May, 2012 by Mike

As Dave Barry says, “I am not making this up.” There’s this story on Snopes about finding money hidden inside a Gideon Bible. It’s new to me. I’d never heard about it, never even thought to go looking to see … Continue reading →

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Posted on 6 March, 2012 by Mike

I am hoping that the events of the past week or so have finally demonstrated exactly how unhinged elements of the conservative universe are. And one would hope beyond hope that Rush Limbaugh will finally, finally, finally be banished from … Continue reading →

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The conversations I have

Posted on 5 March, 2012 by Mike
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“Hitting Zero”

Posted on 5 March, 2012 by Mike

I saw this Darlene Lim short on an Air Canada flight back in 2006 and have spent the last six years looking for a readily-accessible copy to watch. It is just as good as I remember it being at the … Continue reading →

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Sic transit gloria E-6

Posted on 5 March, 2012 by Mike

Kodak is getting out of the slide film business. There are a bunch of reasons why: the general decline in popularity of film, the fact that Kodak has been losing money like mad, that they’re in bankruptcy now and trying … Continue reading →

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Making Sparks

Posted on 28 February, 2012 by Mike

About five years ago, I bought an album called “If You Were For Me” by Rose Cousins, on the basis of her performance on a CBC Radio 1 show I half-listened to while recovering from a night shift. It didn’t … Continue reading →

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Critically important aeronautical distinction

Posted on 31 January, 2012 by Mike

I’m late to the Memetrain, as usual, but I couldn’t leave this one alone: So there, Peppy. Pedantry: winning!

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Did you know about this? (the CBC radio edition)

Posted on 12 January, 2012 by Mike

So I was driving home this afternoon, after today’s aeronautical adventures (check-out in a new-to-me airplane), listening as one does to CBC Radio out of Vancouver. There was something weirdly familiar about the voices on the radio, and I couldn’t … Continue reading →

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Soundcheck Sunday: King of Spain, “Animals Part 1″

Posted on 7 January, 2012 by Mike

I have no idea where this came from. It has apparently been in my music collection for quite a long time; it seems to have come from iTunes, but I have no recollection of downloading it, and there isn’t anything … Continue reading →

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