Today I attended CANSAIP’s annual conference called Packaging Your Imagination. Held at Trinity college, Toronto, the day-long conference consisted of three workshops and a keynote speaker. Between the second and third workshops, there was a sit down lunch with brief speeches from the CANSCAIP organizers. I will talk about the workshops another time. I’m still […]
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I finished reading Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair. It’s a Brontë lover’s romp, written for our times. A demonic villain, Acheron Hades, is invading fictional classics via the original manuscripts and changing the stories. Reader’s who own a copy of these books watch, dismayed, as he kidnaps characters or otherwise rewrites the stories. Comic Fantasy
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I find it hard to write objectively about something like a wedding. Leaving out the personal pictures and names, here I go: Saturday I went to a wedding at Hart House chapel, University of Toronto. There was seating for about twenty-five people in the chapel, dominated by post-war murals and stained glass. A table, topped
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Ryan Bigge has written a hilarious pastiche of literary criticism in the November Walrus. Literary types are in danger of laughing too hard and falling out of their ivory towers. To read the post-modern shenanigans, click on the link: Swedish for Great Literature In more important news, my kid, the one who got one assist
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Can you guess where your crispy crunchy correspondent is reading today? Extra credit for guessing the section as well as the building… In the evening I will be attending the Michele Trembley play, Bonbons Assortis. Trembley is well known outside of Canada and is often translated into other languages. He’s been a hit in Scotland,
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I love film and TV so of course I want to read about them. Jane in Progress is a blog, recommended to me by my friend Artist-At-Large. It’s a fascinating look inside big TV. Jane’s blog is so honest. She even quotes her hourly rate. It’s endearing, although odd, that she also records what she
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Here are some pictures from Toronto’s new opera house. It opened in June 2006. The outside of the building is fairly plain but the inside is inspired. My favorite change from the Hummingbird Centre is that the R. Fraser Elliott Hall has an open orchestra pit which gives the musicians their rightful place as performers.
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As part of the ImagineNative festival, on Saturday I went to an excellent screenwriting seminar given by Elke Town of Storyworks, sponsored by the Harold Greenberg Fund. She was an excellent presenter and a good sport as well since she posed for this picture! Top tips: Study the films that you like the best and
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I have read The End. Lemony Snicket had me hooked from the very first page of The Bad Beginning, the first installment of his novel series about the Baudelaire orphans. Although his series lost some freshness for me in the middle, The Carnivorous Carnival, for example, felt like it was following the Snicket ‘formula,’ they
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