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There was a time when the Times would not let human writers start sentences with “but”.
But, in this intro, the paper of record allows it to be used to start sentences twice and, in both cases, in rhetorically reprehensible ways.

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BigB Radio Song of the Day. Yes, they played Super so not much I can do. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤣 (eng subs in CCs) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GQg...

…I wasn’t primed to look for anything outside the lane, and evidently evil fucks can be interested in old movies too (tbf likely old movies with no “ethnics” in them) and not necessarily trumpet their evil all the time. It’s a sneaky thing, and unsettling. It was a useful thing to experience.

Things that got me is I think of myself as pretty savvy about these things, but if that one ad hadn’t straight-up said W-S (and even then I initially thought it may have been satire?) I wouldn’t have suspected anything? The ick I got was subtle. But my focus was getting info on the old movie so...

Didn’t want to go anywhere else on the site and give them hits, so looked up the site title. Just got links to other parts of the site. Finally found an announcement of someone running the blog speaking at a certain conference and looked that up. Yup. White supremacist. Got chills. 💀🥴

Was doing research for the podcast and came across a movie review on a blog, and as I was reading I noticed an ad for a “white supremacist guide to..” something and was like 🤔. I read through the review itself and didn’t find anything sticking out like that, nor did anything else exactly...

It's interesting how the Canadian broadcaster-to-politician pipeline is so very rarely truly successful.
Asking questions with seeming authority is a different skill set, I think, to selling an audience on a party or a platform or yourself.

A Beautiful Day for a Neighbor: Tom Noonan (1951-2026) A personal tribute to a great actor, a great friend, and a gentle giant of a man.

"I looked up, and up, and up, and up, until I saw Tom Noonan's face, looking down at me with a curious expression. 'What did you say your name was?' he asked." A remembrance of my friend Tom, lost too soon. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/a-beauti...

Glasgow Central: Building collapses at station as fire causes major disruption Dozens of services have since been cancelled and the station will be closed until further notice.

Lovely old part of the building. 😢 www.bbc.com/news/live/cd...

Oh damn, was there a couple years ago and stayed my first night across the street. Thinking of the shops there. Gonna be a chaotic Monday commute.

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

Vladdy’s first ever World Baseball Classic home run!

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

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BigB Radio Song of the Day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGZi...

"Radio broadcasting, while valuable for certain limited commercial purposes is perhaps primarily an instrument for the cultivation of public opinion, of education and entertainment. It should make the home not merely a billboard, but a theatre, a concert hall, a club, a public meeting, a school, a university."

Spry and Plaunt arranged for American radio inventor Dr. Lee De Forest to testify in writing. In his statement, he said radio was being debased by advertising and added, "We look to you in Canada to lead radio in North America out of the morass in which it has pitiably sunk. May Canada fulfil my early dream."

Bennett, voicing his worries about the American radio invasion of Canada, told Spry, "It may well be, Graham, that you havecsaved Canada for the British Commonwealth."

"First of all," he said, "this country must be assured of complete Canadian control of broadcasting from Canadian sources, free from foreign broadcasting interference or influence. Without such control radio can never become a great agency for communication of matters of national concern and for the diffusion of national thought and ideals, and without such control it can never be the agency by which national consciousness may be fostered and sustained and national unity still further strengthened. ... No other scheme than that of public ownership can ensure to the people of this country equal enjoyment of the benefits and pleasures of radio broadcasting ... I cannot think that any government would be warranted in leaving the air to private exploitation and not reserving It for development for the use of the people."

Reading about the successful efforts to establish public broadcasting in Canada and damn we need this sort of energy again

Hadn't been to Stackt for a minute and turns out there's a Holi party going on (no colour on me yet lol) AND a market of women vendors for IWD. Toronto still Toronto-ing. 👍🏼

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BigB Radio Song of the Day! (one of these ladies now studies music business in uni and pops up on TikTok sometimes dropping knowledge) (eng sub in CCs) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljdw...

Toronto pals, it’s Rosie DiManno. WTF did you think she was going to say about this*?

*Was going to specify what it is today but honestly could be anything.

MACLEAN'S article stating Jaime Watt's daughter is Heather Watt.

Ms. Heather Watt has been appointed as supervisor at the PDSB. Ms. Watt is a management consultant with over 20 years of career experience in public and private sector leadership. She has worked in crisis consulting and senior strategy roles across multiple sectors, including government, life sciences, health insurance, pharmacy, consumer products, industrials and private equity.

Heather’s LinkedIn where it’s shown she worked as the Chief Strategy Officer at Navigator

So it turns out that Heather Watt, the Ford crony supervisor appointed to run the Peel District School Board is the daughter of Jaime Watt, founder of Navigator. Who better to help Education Minister Calandra navigate the useful crisis of his own creation? #topoli #Onpoli #onted

Seeing that no press freedom orgs have rushed to defend and help @rachelgilmore.bsky.social makes me ask, for the millionth time, what do CJFE, PEN, etc even do? Why exist at all when you do fuck all to fight censorship and intimidation?

1010 & TVO framed Tory misconduct as an affair. FTR he had a secret romance with a junior staffer who reported to him. He helped get her a job at Rogers-owned MLSE in a role dealing with him & his office on issues involving public funds. He then voted at city council on an issue she handled at MLSE

NEW EPISODE! 🥳 More about the great Paul Robeson as his character Joe deals with the runaway English boy he’s enlisted to help find. Also, was Robeson a pioneer in streaming live concerts? 🎙️📞
Big Fella part 2, on Movies For the Blind! megaphone.link/FPMN3487576959

His piece also made me realize that the Leafs to me are sort of like Y&R as I mentioned earlier. I was once a big fan, got sick of all of it and stopped watching, and now check in occasionally with people who still watch to learn nothing much really changes over decades.

Knowing Ratto has called us “Canada’s angst capital” is more than a little comforting.

CB carries a basketball. Lucy asks, “Is that a ball or are you carrying your head under your arm?” CB walks on saying, “Why don't you go throw yourself on the floor, fussbudget?” (Lucy used to be called a “fussbudget”.)

There was a time that Charlie Brown gave as good as he got.

(Ofc I also had to mention how when I first watched as a kid Victor did that to his wife Julia and Mom wondered if he still had that shit in the basement. Ah, mother/daughter bonding…)

On the call with the parents, Mom was as usual complaining with reason about Y&R. She says Victor kidnapped Jack 🙄 and asked how can people just kidnap people and not face consequences. Ofc I said anyone can read the news and see how that happens. Mom said oh right and laughed ruefully.

Ohtani is fooled a little at first and is off-balance here against an off-speed pitch BUT he keeps his hands back so long and can whip them through the zone so fast that they bail him out and he somehow hits a grand slam despite maybe getting 60% of that ball. Incredible.

That’s fun how you have a photo of people searching through rubble and your first line in this post is “This is a disingenuous attack” and somehow you mean it’s some guy’s attack on you.
“Communications."

I took a nap and some folks around are in a celebratory mood anyway 😎 so here’s a late edition of the BigB Radio Song of the Day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tBn...