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A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #76 (July 28)
Crime on the best island, the next Evil Knievel and mall rats in a Newfoundland park.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

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A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #75 (July 21)
PEI erased from the map, false positives in the NB West Nile case and dyslexic tax evasion in NS.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

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A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #74 (July 14)
Summer campaigns, bad moonshine and a cross controversy.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Film

Tenacious D to release The Masterworks on September 9th.

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A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #73 (July 7)
Canada Day commotion, horseplay on Fort Howe and new bumper cars at the amusement park.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

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A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #72 (June 30)
A whale of a grave, spanking the freshmen and the transatlantic journey of the Hipjoint.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

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"For every 10,000 people who have a drum machine and run things through a filter box, there's an Aphex Twin." - Jon Brion (The Onion AV Club)

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A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #71 (Jun 23)
Stealing from the elderly, a cyber serial killer and a couple dead whales.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

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A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #70 (Jun 16)
Less Liberals in NB, garbage bag-wearing felons in NL and a really old knife in NS.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

TV

"Ren is still an asshole, Stimpy is still retarded." - John K on Ren & Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon

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A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #69 (Jun 9)
Historic happenings, angry animals and booze bans.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Film: "I had a colonoscopy once, and they let me watch it on TV. It was more entertaining than The Brown Bunny." - Roger Ebert on The Brown Bunny (National Post)

Event: Lebowski Fest (Louisville, KY)

Music: Radiohead's Hail to the Thief dissected over e-mail | Slate

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #68 (June 2)
Academics in the city, pigeons in the park and a car in the pizza parlor.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

CD Review: Various Artists (Mixed by the X-ecutioners), Scratchology (Sequence)
The X-ecutioners crew (DJs Roc Raida, Rob Swift and Total Eclipse) successfully mix early influences in this brief turntable history lesson and welcome addition to the Sequence Records Series (which includes entries by Dan The Automator and Tony Touch). Even if you have some of the tracks already (like "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" and Herbie Hancock's "Rockit"), they are given new life alongside rarer tracks by DJ Cash Money & Marvelous Marvin, Davy DMX and Mixmaster Gee & The Turntable Orchestra. There are also several interesting interludes and a healthy dose of Roc Raida's ego ("I'll Kick Ya Ass"). - Iain K. MacLeod

from Mixed Messages | The Coast - Halifax's Weekly (May 29 - June 5, 2003)

TV: The return of Ken Finkelman's series The Newsroom

Post: Trailer Park Boys | Metafilter

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #67 (May 26)
Forest fires, criminal cops and misrepresentative maps.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Film: "I apologize to the financiers of the film, but I must assure you it was never my intention to make a pretentious film, a self-indulgent film, a useless film, an unengaging film." - Vincent Gallo on his L'Affaire Brown Bunny (Chicago Sun-Times)

Film: "In one of the funniest gags he conjures a monkey that emerges head first from the posterior of a thug who beat him up a couple of days earlier." - Stephen Holden on Bruce Almighty (New York Times).

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #66 (May 20)
Crustaceans, convicts and the Canadian Navy.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Music: I just downsized Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac into one single CD (Kid Amnesiac?). While I do like both albums, I think there is a little experimental, self-indulgant filler on both that can easily be shaved. I actually think it was NME or Q that did this before, but I thought I would give it a crack seeing as the new CD is quickly approaching. The only real pattern is ordered them by feel and then alternated tracks from the two discs. Here is my track listing (subject to change without notice):

01. Like Spinning Plates
02. Morning Bell
03. Knives Out
04. The National Anthem
05. I Might Be Wrong
06. Idioteque
07. Packt Like Sardines in A Crushd Tin Box
08. Everything In It's Right Place
09. Dollars & Cents
10. Motion Picture Soundtrack (edited to 3:16 minutes)
11. Pyramid Song
12. Optimistic
13. You And Whose Army?
14. How To Disappear Completely
15. Morning Bell/Amnesiac

Total time: 67:22

Next up: The Beatle's White Album (inspired by this).

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #65 (May 13)
Sunday shopping, bonding with billets and cussing in the House of Commons.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Quote: "Eminem was fine with me having the parody on my album but said he was afraid that a Weird Al video might detract from his legacy, that it would somehow make people take him less seriously as an important hip-hop artist." - Weird Al Yankovic (Launch)

B-day: According to the IMDb, I share a birthday with: Enrique Iglesias, Greg Thomey, Don Rickles and Harry S. Truman.

Fred Savage turns 27 in a couple months. I bet Kevin Arnold would have had an interesting blog, what with the wacky misadventues of Paul Pfeiffer and Winnie Cooper.

Here are some celebrities that made it to 27: Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison. Since I don't have the same access to mind altering substances of self-distruction and fire arms, chances are I will outlast them (in years...not necessarily culturally).

My Onion Horoscope: The stars don't think it would be fair to give you a new prediction until the one about finding happiness, love, or wealth comes true.

Music: The Madman of Electronica | Slate

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #64 (May 5)
Anthrax scares, West Nile preparation and our depleting dark sky.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Quote: "Canadian laws and regulations intended to protect Canadian citizens and landed immigrants from government intrusion sometimes limit the depth of investigations." - State Department report on global terrorism (Ottawa Citizen)

Woo-hoo! I guess the great white north is the true home of the free now!

Quote: "Why can't they make little doctors or lawyers?" - the director of the Yollocalli Youth Museum on Homies (NY Times)

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #63 (Apr 28)
The mayor on cookies, a fishermen on television and gambling on smoking.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Silly: Modern Moist Towelette Collecting

Post: Wilco | musicfilter

TV: 300 reasons why we love The Simpsons | The Observer

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #62 (Apr 22)
Playing politics, saving seniors and cruelty to crustaceans.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Link: ban comic sans

Post: TV Turnoff Week | Metafilter

Movie: The film adaptation of Daniel MacIvor's Marion Bridge has been reviewed in The Village Voice, The Onion AV Club and the The New York Times (reg. req'd).

Quote: "Free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes" - Rumsfeld on Freedom (Harper's Weekly Review)

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #61 (Apr 14)
Drugs on the Internet, robots playing hockey and disrespecting the dutch.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Quote: "God to me is not Jesus Christ and religion, God to me is the higher power and the one that is the creator of all of us. I believe God is an alien, so my story's deep and it runs a little different than anything." - Vanilla Ice on Religion (Associated Press)

Link: David Cross interviews MC Honky | MTV

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #60 (Apr 7)
Airplanes, highways, marijuana, pigs, a rabbit and moose.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Pics: Nathan Wiley and Ron Sexsmith at the Cohn on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2003.

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #59 (Mar 31)
Dream a Little Dream in NYC, Prince Edward Island swoosh spotting while Oscar comes to Nova Scotia.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #58 (Mar 24)
Real fraud, fake fights and simulated sex.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Advert: We're Sorry | Matador

Link: Interview with Chunklet's Henry Owings | Pitchfork