Consolation Champs

I’ve never been to the Sundance Film Festival, and have no burning desire to hang out with the stars in a ski resort in Utah, but I have been trying to follow a bit of what’s going on. Here are a few films that I’m hearing good things about and which, with any luck, will […]

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The nominations were announced for the Oscars yesterday. I’ve been seeing fewer feature films lately, but I do manage to catch more documentaries. Of the five nominees, I’ve only seen two so far, but I plan to try to see all of them if I can before the Academy Awards are handed out on February […]

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Top Gear is one of those shows only the British could make. It’s about cars, ostensibly, but it’s more about the camaraderie and one-up-manship of its three hosts, which is really what makes it so enjoyable to me.
After being introduced to this wonder last year at SXSW by the ravings of Kevin and Porter, I […]

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I’ve realized that switching to WordPress has broken all my archive links. If you arrive here via Google and are not at the page you’re expecting, please use the nifty live search box in the top right corner and you will be whisked away to the place you want to be. It’s that simple!

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Dear Movable Type,
Remember a few years ago when our relationship was fresh? And I wrote a Dear Blogger letter? Well, I’m sorry to say that I’m doing it again. I think we should go our separate ways.
It’s been a great four and a half years. In fact, it’s the longest relationship I’ve had with any […]

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I just heard that the new chairman of Toronto’s transit commission (slogan: “The Better Way”) has asked bloggers to improve the commission’s “abysmal” website. This is potentially good news, but I hope these wizards of the web are willing to go in and get their hands dirty rather than just complain. The site hasn’t been […]

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Last Christmas, Brooke and I decided that The Complete New Yorker was the present we would buy for ourselves, and it will undoubtedly keep us occupied for the next thousand years or so. How happy I was, then, to discover that MAD magazine also has a complete archive available on DVD. I think this […]

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Since 2000, I’ve been proudly trumpeting to the world that Consolation Champs is the “Top of the B-List!” but it appears that I’ve been swamped by the ever-rising blog tide. According to this article about blog celebrities, I’m now just a C-List blogger!
Oh, my self-esteem!

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