Category Archives: Culture Consumed

Things I’ve read, watched, seen.

Need a speech?

I recently built a new speechwriter’s site for Colin Moorhouse. Over the years I’ve helped Colin with his websites, bailing him out of trouble when things got too technical or fixing them when his WYSIWYG editor messed things up. Now … Continue reading

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BBC’s Planet Earth: wonderment and eyecandy

If you haven’t seen BBC’s Planet Earth series, I can’t tell you enough to watch it. As an artist I find the eyecandy fabulous, inspiring, dumbfounding. There are so many incredible shapes and patterns in nature. The variety of behaviours … Continue reading

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Self-Portrait of an Artist as an Insomniac

Much to my surprise, I found an interesting, artsy documentary at the Sechelt Library this week: WIDE AWAKE by Alan Berliner. (Links: Slate – recommended, IMDB – snoring.) Alan has spent decades suffering with insomnia. The film documents his personal … Continue reading

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Blog Day

Today is Blog Day, when bloggers around the world have been invited to write about five other blogs. We were asked to seek new sites, especially ones from around the world which are out of the realm we would normally … Continue reading

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Scotland, PA

It was a day of sloth in our house… we also watched Scotland, PA. It’s a black comedy set around a 70′s burger joint. The main characters’ last names are MacBeth, but I guess I’m rusty on my Shakespeare as … Continue reading

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