I spent years collecting an array of ‘Facebook friends’, saying yes to almost anyone who requested ‘friendship’ and searching out those long lost high school and childhood buddies. I added those who lived in Stratford making it easier to get in touch with me during my stay as their MLA. 3400 ‘friends’ later, countless invitations …
(First drafted October, 2011) Its definitely not a new discussion or argument, but where we get our news and how the ‘new media’ has influenced public input and what we think of as ‘journalism’, in general, gives more flavour to Marshall McLuhan’s “The Medium is the Message”. It used to be that we read the …
My top 10 list of the restaurants I have enjoyed the most so far this year. January 2012 Byblos (LD) – Belvedere Ave. Casa Mia Café (L) – Queen St. Daniel Brennan Brick House (LD) – Sydney St. Globe World Flavours (LD) – Richmond St. Lot 30 (D) – Kent St. Redwater Rustic Grille (LD) …
…. or Christmas consumerism, whichever gouges at you most politically correct. Every November/December I perplex myself with the ‘why’s’ and ‘how’s’ of the over-indulgent, drippingly frothy, wretched way the Christians put on a birthday party . It’s not that I’m query-free for the rest of the year, but as the stench and roar of the …