Link: Newsletters | Atlantic Film Festival

Link: The real apology | 22minutes.com

Link: Weight Watchers recipe cards, circa 1974

Post: Crispin Glover does "Ben" | Metafilter

Link: Belief-O-Matic
Here are my results:
01. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
02. Liberal Quakers (88%)
03. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (85%)
04. Theravada Buddhism (82%)
05. Secular Humanism (80%)
06. Neo-Pagan (70%)
07. Mahayana Buddhism (68%)
08. New Age (64%)
09. Bah�'� Faith (62%)
10. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (60%)
11. Taoism (57%)
12. Nontheist (57%)
13. New Thought (51%)
14. Reform Judaism (49%)
15. Orthodox Quaker (46%)
16. Jainism (45%)
17. Scientology (41%)
18. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (41%)
19. Sikhism (38%)
20. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (36%)
21. Jehovah's Witness (34%)
22. Hinduism (32%)
23. Orthodox Judaism (26%)
24. Islam (19%)
25. Seventh Day Adventist (15%)
26. Eastern Orthodox (9%)
27. Roman Catholic (9%)

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #56 (Mar 9)
Lost letters, prohibited pub crawls and a whale of a billboard.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Link: Rick Mercer E-mail Hoax | Halifax Live

Post: Sony's Custom Mix CD | Metafilter

Link: A Truly Canadian Apology | Urban Legends Reference Pages

Link: Colin Mochrie as Reporter Anthony St. George offers a public apology to America
Hmm, now this doesn't appear to be the same as the other apology to American's that is making the rounds...

Post: The Eels' Shootenanny CD | Metafilter

Quote: "We have no contacts with publicists -- nor do we want any. We don't get invited to movie premieres. We don't interview actors. We don't try to hang out with actresses." - William Bastone, co-founder and editor of TheSmokingGun.com (CBS MarketWatch)

Link: Rick Mercer's apology to the United States of America
Note: I just got off the phone with Rick Mercer's agent and just wanted to let you know this was not written by him and he doesn't even know where it came from. They just got back from Jamaica and found out about it and were actually waiting for someone to contact them (like angry Americans) from all the attention it is getting. He edits all of Rick's work and said that, while there are a few good lines, it has way too many adverbs. On the bright side, he said they did spell Rick's name right.

It might actually be from a bit that Colin Mochrie did for This Hour (remember that Rick left the show about 2 years ago).

Link: The Anti-Hit List | eye

Post: Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival | Metafilter

Link: The CD of the Month Club | crabwalk.com
This is your last chance to take part in the swap!

Post: ScientologyWatch.org | Metafilter

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #55 (Mar 3)
Accidents on the fixed links, outburst in the premier's office and a major fire in the North End.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Post: AudioBLOGGER | Metafilter

Link: Scotland, Pa. (2001) is the Movie of the Day on IMDb

Link: My America | Vice
By: David Cross

Link: The Anti-Hit List | eye

Link: The Anti-Hit List | eye

Quote: "They are selling mind poison." - Bill O'Reilly on hip-hop (PAGE SIX)

Quote: "I don't even know what the fuck I'm doing. It's definitely more fucked up than any other record I've ever made. I don't know what the fuck it is." - Ryan Adams on his next CD "Life is Hell" (NME.COM)

Link: Got No Songs on the Radio: The Best Music of 2002 | Flak

Quote: "I'll show my dick if it helps the narrative. I'm not going to throw my dick around just because." - Jake Gyllenhaal (Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com)

Link: Great White's performance rider | The Smoking Gun

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #54 (Feb 24)
Weather woes, war protests, annual awards and animal stories.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Link: iPOP On the Scene� - Berlinale 2003
Programmer Andrew Murphy and Festival Director Lia Rinaldo from the Atlantic Film Festival in Nova Scotia, hanging out at the "Party Monster" party.

Quote: "Madonna plays a real rich bitch who, along with her husband and two other couples, charter a luxury boat for a few days."
The Inverness Oran on Swept Away

Post: Shift folds | Metafilter

Trailer: A MIGHTY WIND

Post: Google as Big Brother | Metafilter

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #53 (Feb 17)
Interprovincial bigamy, a rabid cat and a large foil ball.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Post: Red Herring Founder Unveils AlwaysOn Network | Metafilter

Link: The Simpsons - Who turned America's best TV show into a cartoon? | Slate.com
By Chris�Suellentrop

Quote: "I'm a thousandaire, and that's alright for now." - Daniel Johnston (RollingStone.com)

Link: eye - The Anti-Hit List - 02.13.03

Post: Canadian Actors Suck Big Time | Metafilter

Post: Village Voice's 2002 Pazz & Jop Poll | Metafilter

Post: Return of the Anti-Hit List | Metafilter

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #52 (Feb 10)
Duck tolling retriever's, free bag pipes and spitting on the streets of Saint John.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Freelance: The Coast - Halifax's Weekly
Volume 10 Number 35 (#388)
February 6 - February 13, 2003

ON THE COVER> Universal Soul
These Halifax hip-hoppers will be all over the East Coast Music Awards. You heard it here first.
By Iain K. MacLeod

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #51 (Feb 3)
Smoking at the pool hall, disposable beagles and a church made out of bottles.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #50 (Jan 27)
Ebay antlers, Mahone bagels, and several centenarians.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #49 (Jan 20)
Hit or pass, mustard gas and breaking glass.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #48 (Jan 13)
The price is always right, tiny golden monkeys and long live Santa's village.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Freelance: The Coast - Halifax's Weekly
Volume 10 Number 30 (#383)
December 26 - January 9, 2002

ARTS> High class currency
Hip-hopper Buck 65 comes home for the holidays.
by Iain K. MacLeod

There was once a time when actually getting your hands on a Buck 65 release was a game of chance. Since the fall, Warner Music Canada has re-released five albums from his critically acclaimed back catalogue, including Language Arts, Vertex, Man Overboard, Synesthesia and Weirdo Magnet. On top of that, Buck released the highly anticipated Square, which has already been nominated for an East Coast Music Award for urban recording of the year. He was then promptly whisked off to make in-roads in Europe by way of an all-expenses-paid hip-hop sabbatical in Paris, France.

"I am back, basically here for the holidays and to finish up recording the new album with Charles Austin at Ultramagnetic," says Buck, born Richard Terfry, peering out from under his blue "Keep Nova Scotia Farming" ball cap. He has already made plans to return to Paris after his world tour in the new year, so his Marquee show December 27 will be your last chance to catch him for a while.

Terfry, a native of Mount Uniake, had never lived outside of Nova Scotia, so Paris was a bit of an eye-opener. "If there is a big city that is going to work for a country boy from Nova Scotia like me, maybe this is it," says Terfry, commenting on Paris's relatively slow pace and appreciation for the arts. With lots of time on his hands, he "cased" Paris by strolling the Left Bank, discovering weekly ragtime jazz jams and amateur readings. He found a really heavy record dealer who specialises in incredibly obscure European records and ingested copious amounts of cinema. Oh, and he also penned the first draft of a novel.

For more, pick up an issue of The Coast

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #47 (Jan 6): Riding the rails, rotten parenting and some religious news. By: Iain K. MacLeod