Not that you are. The Wild Westness trampling over the publishing industry right now is kind of fun to watch. Fun in the sense that anticipation is fun. As a hockey fan, I decry the shootout as an idiotic way to win a game but watching it is the definition of fun. You have fun […]
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Don’t Cry for the Publishers (though you are free to shake your head)
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The Dead Tree Society
This post, from the great Los Angeles Review of Books, is quite awesome and on the money. We need to stop blaming the internet for killing everything. It didn’t. The internet didn’t kill the music industry: the music industry did, by its disregard for musicians and music. In other words, they killed themselves because they […]
It’s The Heat and Humidity
Heat. There’s some real heat out there now and while it feels nice, I don’t quite function properly in Montreal’s heat. I never have. It often surprises people (ok, it surprises Americans mostly) how hot Montreal gets in the summer and especially the humidity, which can be infernal, and I suppose I’m Canadian enough to […]
