The Blork Blog

In honor of the upcoming Blue Metropolis festival, here are my top five tips for budding novelists.
(5) Don’t make your characters wink. People don’t wink. They haven’t winked for decades. Yet whenever bad novelists want their characters to acknowledge something lightheartedly, they wink. “Bob tossed him the keys and winked.” That wouldn’t happen. People don’t [...]

Cirque du Céline… Céline Dion’s big mega-show at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas has finally opened. The show was put together with help from former Cirque du Soleil designer Franco Dragone. Caesar’s Palace built a $95 million amphitheater for the show, which is expected to run five days a week for three years. (On the [...]

I’m not sure if I like my personal moratorium on war blogging. Given that the war occupies 80% of my cerebral activity it doesn’t leave me much else to think or talk about.
Life does go on though, at least for those of us who don’t have bombs raining down on us. Take Sunday, for example. [...]

Surely Michael Moore was speaking directly to Dubya when he used that little gem of “Bushspeak” last night. After all, when you’re speaking to the tard to end all tards, you have to speak in his own language.

I’m no fan of the Nike shoe company, for all the usual bleeding-heart liberal reasons. But I will give them credit for not being stupid in the silly case of Robert Ghiz, PEI Liberal Party leadership hopeful, who uses a Nike-like swoosh on his campaign materials. In Ghiz’s case, the swoosh is supposed to represent [...]

It’s the last work day of my week-long BBM radio listening diary. So far, I’m I’ve logged about 95% CBC Radio 1, with the other 5% split between CKUT and the lame classical station (CJPX).
At the back of the BBM diary there is a section for comments. It says “The stations really count on your [...]

A few hours after the “target of opportunity” was hit last night, in the opening volleys of Gulf War 2, Saddam appeared on Iraqi television to read a statement. This served to thwart any idea that he had been hurt or killed in that first attack, which the U.S. says was specifically targeting Saddam and [...]