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NEW STUFF. On The Tragically Hip and How we still need our public broadcaster.  --for updates and to continue the discussion in comments, please go directly to http://heywriterboy.blogspot....

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Out of mothballs, for one entry only... So I’ve been libelled by FRANK magazine again.  For those of you who don’t know FRANK, it’s a satire magazine that was briefly-relevant in the ear...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-blast-from-past-notes-from-canadian.html

You don't know what out of order is? I'd show you, but I'm too old, I'm too tired, I'm too fuckin' blind. If I were the man I was five years ago, I'd take a FLAMETHROWER to this place! Out of ord...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2012/06/erratta.html

I POSTED THIS on Facebook a few days ago, & people seemed to like it.  But...it's actually 128 years ago TODAY that a young man, stricken with grief, wrote something extraordinarily crazy in ...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/light-has-gone-out-of-my-life.html

Wrote this on FACEBOOK this morning and it got shared around. The completist in me wanted to post it here. One time only thing. Comments are disabled since I don't really do this thing anymore....

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2012/01/wrote-this-on-facebook-this-morning-and.html

THESE PIECES LAST UPDATED AUGUST 2011. IF YOU HAVE A SUGGESTION FOR OTHER PAST PIECES TO INCLUDE, LET ME KNOW IN COMMENTS. THANKS.  THE "BIG ONES" (PIECES THAT GOT ME NOTICED.) 10 Things That W...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/11/httpheywriterboy.html

HI.  HOW ARE YOU?  Great, Great. Oh, Good, Good. You know, working and stuff. Same old same old.  Buncha stuff, really. Ah, too much to go into, and you don't wanna hear about that.  So, one...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2011/06/one-more-for-good-cause-why-censoring.html

APPARENTLY I GOT WIKILEAKED. Aint I a stinker? --for updates and to continue the discussion in comments, please go directly to http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com--

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/12/whoops.html

Indeed. How to Give Notes. --for updates and to continue the discussion in comments, please go directly to http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com--

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-give-notes.html

TOM BOSLEY  --   to a generation of man-children who are starting to get squirrelly about revealing their ages, will forever and ever be our generation's model father...the kindly Mr. C, from ...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/10/repost-me-mister-c.html

KATE TAYLOR spent a year as an ATKINSON FELLOW looking into Canadian Culture, for an extended series of articles now available on the TORONTO STAR website. I'm not returning to blogging, not ...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/09/kate-taylor-tackles-canadas-culture-for.html

So, it’s just shy of two months since I signed off this blog.  So why something new now? Well the main reason is that it’s August 19th.  So today marks five years since the first entr...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/08/flame-on.html

THE SCENE: A sunny Sunday morning in pre-G20, soon-to-be-fortress-Toronto.  A circled table, light streaming in through huge windows. The sound of easy laughter & whispered confidences; a bit of...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/06/there-is-wisdom-in-brunch.html

WELL THIS IS a day some time in coming. It's with not too heavy a heart I'd like to let y'all know that effective immediately, I'm pressing 'PAUSE'. DEAD THINGS ON STICKS is finally, especiall...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/06/it-is-accomplished.html

RYERSON UNIVERSITY is in the middle of a very worthy survey -- the first ever -- of Canadian screenwriters.   This is a major research project designed to-- > "gather information on the ...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/06/wgc-members-take-ten-minutes-to-help.html

WELL THAT WAS a hell of a thing. I get to feel an Earthquake. In Toronto. Ironic. More on that later. --for updates and to continue the discussion in comments, please go directly to http://he...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/06/um.html

I HAD TO laugh at Jaime Weinman's latest article about the strange zombie-like existence of TIL DEATH (with a tip to a linked article by Todd Vanderwerff , who's almost as astute an observer of t...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/06/oy-vey.html

IT'S ONE THING to source entertainment stories from U.S. wire copy, and to only report on Canadian talent once the courtly eye of U.S. interest descends upon them, or to not report controversial ...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-canadian-media-sucks.html

YESSSSSS. --for updates and to continue the discussion in comments, please go directly to http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com--

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APPARENTLY, JOURNALISTS ARE making the switch to writing dramatic TV.   It's a trend and everything.  Who knew?  Heh. > Director David Wellington throws out the word, “orpie” (hi...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/06/stop-presses.html

I'M IN A bit of a pickle right now.  Lot of stress, lot of open questions, lot of stuff to do & think about & move & collect & everything.  And of course there's our old friend Mr. Insomnia.  ...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/06/stress-reading.html

I'M STILL UP to my neck in professional & organzational, well, shit -- but further to the below , it looks like the day late & dollar short Canadian media finally caught up to LINDSAY BLACKETT st...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/06/guest-blog-rob-wades-into-shit.html

I HAVE HAD roughly eleventy-billion emails from people in the last hour and a half or so asking for my reaction to remarks made by Alberta's Minister of Culture yesterday on a panel at the BANFF ...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/06/shit-my-crazy-alberta-mla-says.html

YOU CAN TELL that they're scraping the barrel for Canadian news (because you can't report too much on the fact that Toronto is already a fucking detention camp because of this stupid G20 meeting,...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/06/fox-north-oooh-wow-puh-leeeze.html

OKAY, IT'S PROBABLY not for the ahhhhtists among you -- and you do need to be a U.S. citizen, and um, CT isn't the most vibrant place, and Stamford's not the most rockin city, but... sod it. Tel...

http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2010/06/so-you-say-you-want-job.html