Reeling: Our Day Will Come, Into the Wind, Aftershock
Posted by Simon in Film, Reeling, Reviews on 19. Sep, 2010 | 1 Comment
I watched a few movies at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. I considered writing about each as individual posts, but then I realized I didn’t have enough to say about any of them that would be even remotely capable of maintaining your interest. So in the spirit of comprehensive coverage and efficiency, I [...]
Jeremy Lin: The Great Reticent Hope
Posted by Simon in Pop Culture, Race, Sports on 30. Jan, 2010 | 5 Comments
The Legend of Jeremy Lin continues to grow. A second ESPN article popped up last week while the Harvard senior got a shout-out on Deadspin today, surely sending all new scores of basketball fans scurrying to YouTube. This is not a story about basketball though. Whether he likes it or not (and the answer seems to [...]
The future of newspaper advertising
Posted by Simon in Internet, media on 14. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
If you haven’t heard the news, you may be a bit confused by the above screenshot, which I captured on my laptop mere minutes ago. Word that the Globe and Mail website had a functioning Konami code easter egg popped up on my twitterscape via BlogTO this afternoon. The blog was actually retweeting one Mathew [...]
