Monthly Archives: January 2014
Ranking the Hotness of Canadian Prime Ministers
A few days ago, I whipped up my first-ever Buzzfeed list, choosing to focus my efforts on ranking the attractiveness of Canada’s prime ministers. You can read the full list over at Buzzfeed, but here’s a little sampling from #21, John A. Macdonald:
I guess they didn’t make men too attractive in ye olden days. Canada’s [...]
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Tagged andrew coyne, buzzfeed, ctv, john a. macdonald, matthew coutts, prime ministers, the social
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January 31 | Goth Portraits at the OLA Super Conference
Do you know what the OLA Super Conference is? If you’re an Ontario librarian, you most likely do. And if you’re not an Ontario librarian, I don’t think you can even attend, so don’t worry too much about it. The OLA Super Conference (at Toronto’s Metro Convention Centre) is the annual gathering of the Ontario [...]
Posted in books, Dead Kid Detective Agency, Dial M for Morna, Events, fairs, sketches
Tagged chris hadfield, david usher, goth portraits, librarians, libraries, manda, ola, super conference
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Leaving the House
Almost immediately after the New Year, I announced that I was leaving my longtime position as publicist of Coach House Books. By the time I depart – likely late February / early March – I’ll have been the publicist at Coach House for nearly eight years. That’s actually one-sixth of Coach House’s existence and one-fourth [...]
Posted in books, Coach House, Dead Kid Detective Agency
Tagged anchorman 2, becker, book publicity, coach house books, seinfeld
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The Best of 2013
I realize absolutely no one cares, but apparently my obsessive need to create lists has prevailed. (I fear I’m becoming like Rob Fleming in High Fidelity, and that’s fairly terrifying.) As in 2010, 2011 and 2012, I’ve again – a few days late – put together a few ‘best of 2013′ lists, in the time-honoured [...]
Posted in Best of 2013, comics, movies
Tagged 12 years a slave, a touch of sin, alexander payne, all-new x-men, brian k. vaughn, brian michael bendis, catching fire, chip zdarsky, chris samnee, chvrches, daredevil, fiona staples, francis lawrence, haim, hunger games, iggy azalea, in a world ..., jess fink, jia zhangke, kanye west, karmic, lady gaga, lake bell, mark waid, martin scorcese, matt fraction, miley cyrus, nebraska, nicolas winding refn, only god forgives, quentin dupieux, rihanna, saga, sex criminals, shane carruth, sion sono, steve mcqueen, stuart immonen, the lonely island, the wolf of wall street, upstream colour, vampire weekend, we can fix it, why don't you play in hell?, wrong
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