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The origin of Alias Grace OR Me > Frankenstein’s creature
Lately, I’ve been meeting a lot of new faces due to the Halifax Twitter community really putting the emphasis on social when it comes to social media. There’s even an entire wiki dedicated to the events around town, and it keeps growing. From Third Wednesdays to Halifax Chicks, random tweetups and even Pupp-E play dates [...]
This is not a film review: Terminator Salvation
Just a couple of notes about the movie Terminator Salvation before I get to the books part of this post. First, what was up with that ending? Second, and I know this is picky for an action flick, but was it just me or were there glitches in Cyberdyne Systems’ programming of Marcus Wright’s accent? [...]
This is not a film review: Star Trek
Cokebaby and I went on a double “date” with another couple to catch dinner at Opa in the Park and Star Trek at the movies (don’t fret, a food review will be posted separately). Again, this is definitely not a film review but I have to say that I really enjoyed the acting in this [...]
This is not a film review: Wolverine
All I’m going to say about the movie is that the intro sequence was the coolest one I’ve seen in a while. What I really wanted to do with this post is recommend a number of related books, like I did for Slumdog Millionaire. But, you know what? I really couldn’t come up with any. [...]
Swine flu and the wisdom of Douglas Adams
Everyone is talking about the swine flu right now. It’s the big pandemic scare of 2009. Google is even tracking its progress around the world using this map. Now, I’m not making light of the situation but with the proliferation of social media tools like Twitter, it’s just as easy to spread helpful information around [...]
House of poets
Over at Seen Reading literary voyeur Julie Wilson recently had a webtastrophy and needed some help to house some orphaned poets in her National Poetry Month feature 30 in 30. So, being a neighbourly kind of blogger, I agreed to post three East Coast poets (and Microsoft Sam) here for your listening pleasure. Jacob McArthur [...]
Earth Week
[This next East Coast Guest Post comes from a very special friend with whom I shared the joy of a book called Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver. If you haven't read it and really want to get serious about growing your own food, I highly recommend this book. And [...]
My top ten most influential people who never lived
[Leading up to Earth Day, I'm going to be taking one of the three R's and recycle some posts that I wrote either elsewhere or on now defunct blogs. Then, during Earth Week, I've got some more wonderful East Coast Guest Posts lined up. In the meantime, here's something fun I put together for CBC [...]
Canada Reads 2009
I don’t typically post about work. That said, I’ve been working long, hard hours in the past few months writing, coding, Photoshopping, and doing all things social media so that the show can deliver the best in online programming. My fingertips are worn down to the bone. Well, almost. OK, they’re not really. But I [...]
Seen Reading: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
For those of you who know me on Twitter, you’ll know I go by the name of @aliasgrace. Being a bookworm I thought it was a fitting handle for a number of reasons, one of which is that it’s from a great piece of CanLit. So, when literary voyeur Julie Wilson from Seen Reading asked [...]
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