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Links to other people’s stuff.

Jesse Brown, and the courage of journalism.

Posted on 3 November 2014 and filed under journalism, links, outbound, quotes, small

Even if we are, as he says, tired of hearing about this hour after hour, Michael Enright’s take on this week’s Ghomeshi revelations is worth a listen. Comforting to still have his perspective after all this.

Posted on 2 November 2014 and filed under links, outbound, small

There is a whole lot of middle ground between what is blatantly untrue and what has been proven in the eyes of the law.

Posted on 2 November 2014 and filed under journalism, links, main, nocomments

A collection of songs with “ghost” in the title, but also better than that.

Posted on 31 October 2014 and filed under links, main, music

“It is really a two-step career journey, in the writing world. Writing, then editing… If you want to get regular promotions and raises, you will, for the most part, accept the fact that your path takes you away from writing and into editing, in some form. The number of pure writing positions that offer salaries as high as top editing positions is vanishingly small.”

Posted on 29 August 2014 and filed under links, outbound, writing

“The Times reviews almost every movie that comes out (I enjoy reading their reviews of part 6 of some slasher series) and even though I’ve never seen Breaking Bad I can tell you pretty much everything about it because of the number of stories I’ve read. Radio not so much.”

Posted on 28 August 2014 and filed under links, outbound, radio

I heard rumours that in the 1920s, there was an African-American actor who had run a business in downtown Prince George. With a bit of delving I discovered Charles Sagar, an pioneer of the African-American theatre movement who later came to Prince George to cut hair on a floating barge. He also fought back against a city council who ordered police to clean up “N******town”. Here’s what I found out.

Posted on 28 February 2014 and filed under links, outbound, Prince George

After four years of eating at every non-franchise restaurant in Prince George, a local blogger is singling out the best in the bunch.

Posted on 25 February 2014 and filed under links, main, outbound, Prince George

This can’t be the end of radio…. can it?

Posted on 21 February 2014 and filed under links, main, nocomments, outbound, radio

Some other interesting thoughts on bike riding and car culture.

Posted on 21 February 2014 and filed under bikes, links, main, nocomments

1.25 million people die on the roads every year, and yet we accept that number without much question. It doesn’t need to be this way says road safety expert Ian Johnston.

Posted on 3 February 2014 and filed under links, main, outbound

It’s been a bad winter for small, fuel-efficient vehicles.

Posted on 7 January 2014 and filed under links, outbound, small

Today’s 500 words: I don’t have the right mindset to go to Mars.

Posted on 6 January 2014 and filed under links, outbound, small

500 words of my thoughts on the new Doctor Who, and the end of David Tennant’s run (I’m behind, I know).

Posted on 5 January 2014 and filed under links, nocomments, outbound, small

At some point I should write a post outling my thoughts on the benefits of Medium, but for now I wrote a post outlining what I think Medium is. I’m linking to it on Medium because it just kind of makes more sense to read it in that context.

Posted on 12 December 2013 and filed under articles, links, misc, outbound