Looks like it’s gonna be one of those nights.
Category Archive: television
Nov 30
“You Can Write Anything” TVOntario Show from 1983
; This TVOntario show from the early 80s, You Can Write Anything, imparts some important lessons about writing. Like writers have beards and are dead. They’re also thieves. But you can use words to write better descriptions when you report them to the police. Words are fun.
Nov 16
Anti-Cable TV PSA from 1970s
Do you remember when cable tv was a monster? Me neither. I do remember when octopuses were monsters. That species has really had a makeover. These days, I’m not even sure that we consider any animals monsters. Maybe giraffes?
Nov 05
Albert Camus on Nihlism, Dostoyevsky and The Possessed
“The novel may seem complicated but it is not confused.” Philosopher, novelist and all round interesting fellow, Albert Camus talks about nihlism, Dostoyevsky and The Possessed on a French television program.
Sep 18
Science Fiction Heroines as Saints
I’d like that in stained glass. You can see all seven here.
Apr 27
Media Alienation 2.0
Social Media’s Small, Positive Role in Human Relationships is an interesting article. If anything, social media is a counterweight to the ongoing devaluation of human lives. Social media’s rapid rise is a loud, desperate, emerging attempt by people everywhere to connect with *each other* in the face of all the obstacles that modernity imposes on …
Apr 21
Earth Day: Science Fiction Writers in Toronto Star
For Earth Day, the Toronto Star asked 15 science fiction writers, including me, how we’d tackle climate change. To save some space, my answer was edited down. Here’s my full reply: The environment is something I watch on TV. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, it’s a pristine world free of human interference. But it’s also …
Mar 30
Ryan Oakley on Night Fright Show
This is an interview that occurred in late January and will be hitting 12 television stations and 80 radio markets in about a week via TVCOGECO. It’s for Brent Holland’s Night Fright Show. Ryan Oakley – Technicolor Ultra-Mall via Skype from Toronto Canada. What if in the future Toronto had been turned into a huge indoor mall? …
Mar 09
Wire Windup Toys
These Wire Windups aren’t for sale but they’re still awesome. If only there was a collection of bath-soaps based on The Shield. Via Dangerous Minds
PURCHASE
"This ultra-sharp, darkly satiric, hyper-speed novel is set in a world where multi-level mega malls serves as city states and everything on the outside lies in ruin. On the lower red levels, gang violence and media saturation and bio-tech designer drugs rule. During the weekend, slummers from the green levels leave their safe lives of jobs and families to partake in risky, sometimes deadly, fun on the red levels. And on every level, TV and advertisements literally penetrate the mind. Death is easy and life cheap, until that life is your own or your beloveds. Extreme stylization, great characters, and a high-level of intensity is maintained throughout. This is a whip-smart, truly violent novel that has at its core a still very human pulsing heart."
