A while ago (and with great reluctance from Evan), I posted a defense of piracy.
Understanding how much Evan and I differ on the subject, I wouldn’t have written anything more about it- had the BBC not just put forth an article kinda vindicating my entire position.
Oh, you better believe I’m gonna be cocky about this…
Posted in Canada, film, internet, money, music, news
Tagged art, artist, box office, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, HBO, mainstream sources, money, music, musician, netflix, piracy, pirate, prevention of access, profit, quality speed, Reed Hastings, SOPA, television, Time Warner, vince gilligan, YouTube
Look, let’s be clear, I’m not a fan of DC. To be a little more specific, I am not a fan of DC’s business practices and editorial decisions. All of that being said, yesterday the internet perpetuated one of my least favourite of its trends: snap judgement from journalists fishing for hits.
Late Wednesday night W. Haden Blackman and J.H. Williams III, the writer and artist of Batwoman, respectively, posted a message on the former’s blog that they would be leaving the title. Here’s the section of that post that has received the most attention [emphasis added]:
Unfortunately, in recent months, DC has asked us to alter or completely discard many long-standing storylines in ways that we feel compromise the character and the series. We were told to ditch plans for Killer Croc’s origins; forced to drastically alter the original ending of our current arc, which would have defined Batwoman’s heroic future in bold new ways; and, most crushingly, prohibited from ever showing Kate and Maggie actually getting married. All of these editorial decisions came at the last minute, and always after a year or more of planning and plotting on our end.
From what I can tell, the news was first broken by The Outhouse, and was soon followed by all the other major comic book news outlets. ComicsAlliance and Newsarama both likewise delivered the news straight, but elsewhere this wasn’t the case. Continue reading
Posted in bizarreness, comics, internet, lgbt, news, writing
Tagged Batwoman, comics, DC, gay marriage, internet journalism, J.H. Williams III, Kate Kane, lesbian, Maggie Sawyer, Mary Jane, Mephisto, One More Day, sensationalism, Spider-Man, W. Haden Blackman
GORDON: Today, we’re going to be touching on a nerve that’s still pretty raw in the US, even after a century and a half.
Specifically, we’re going to be talking about the ol’ stars and bars- the flag of the former Confederate States of America.
EVAN: I’d like to remind everyone reading this that I am a Canadian. The most experience I have with the Confederate flag is in seeing it on the top of the General Lee from the remake of, and not the original, Dukes of Hazard.
That being said, Gordon directed me towards an article written not too long ago on BBC, and there is an incredible amount of divisiveness regarding it as a symbol. Continue reading
Posted in America, Evan and Gordon Talk, news, politics, race
Tagged America, asian, bigotry, black, Brown VS Board of Education, Buddhism, Buddhist, celtic cross, Civil War, confederacy, confederate flag, cross, dixie, eastern, Evan and Gordon Talk, free speech, heritage, Hindu, history, Indian, KKK, race, racism, segregation, slavery, swastika, symbols, the south, US, USA, white, white power, white supremacist
I grew up in Syria.
I was born in the US, but the vast majority of my life was spent in the Middle East. In spite of the civil war that’s been raging in my adopted homeland for the past couple of years, I’ve remained largely silent on the issue here on the blog. More than anything else, I’ve done so because I know that there’s really no happy ending to anything I can say. For all my raging and foaming at the mouth, I really and truly don’t enjoy having to lambaste things- more than anytime else when there’s really and truly no light I can see at the end of the tunnel. Nevertheless, with American warships closing in on the Syrian coast and a mountain of evidence growing for the regime having unleashed a chemical attack on its own people, there’s really no keeping quiet at this point.
So here it goes.
I. There Is No Free Syrian Army
If you’ve been watching the situation or if you listen to the news, you may hear the term “Free Syrian Army” or “FSA” thrown around. While initially formed out of deserting Syrian soldiers and officers in the early stages of the conflict, there never really was- and still isn’t- any kind of centralized command. There’s a myriad of different militias and cells in Syria all operating under the banner of the FSA, but there’s really no connection between any of them, militarily, ideologically, or demographically. There’s also no connection, as is otherwise sometimes portrayed, between the self-declared opposition government operating out of Turkey and the FSA- they’re two completely different groups. It’s important to understand this to keep from being led into the false assumption that there’s only two sides to the conflict- the dictatorial regime and the pro-democracy rebels. There’s going to be a temptation to grossly oversimplify the situation- don’t let it happen more than it already has.
Posted in America, Islam, media, money, morality, news, politics
Tagged aid, Arms, Assad, Camp, Camps, Civil War, conflict, democracy, Free Syrian Army, FSA, Hezbollah, Humanitarian Aid, Iran, Islamic, israel, Military Intervetion, Pro-West, rebels, Refugee, Syria, Syrians, Tent, US, weapons, west, Winter
So yesterday I was reading through comic book news, as I do, and came across
this image that features award-winning actress Glenn Close as Nova Prime in the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy.
When I saw this I thought to myself, “Huh, that doesn’t look a darn thing like Glenn Close as Nova Prime in the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy.” Then I moved on with my life. Aside from that brief thought I didn’t really question it. The thing is, neither did most sites. Continue reading
Posted in comics, film, internet, media, news, Shame Day, writing
Tagged Bleeding Cool, Gamora, Glenn Close, Green, Guardians of the Galaxy, inaccuracy, internet journalism, news, reporting, set photos, shame day, stunt double, Zoe Saldana
For the month of July I was living with my in-laws in Williams Lake. So on Monday, July 22nd, I was able to be present at the “first day of public hearings into Taseko’s proposed $1-billion open pit gold and copper mine near Williams Lake, B.C.”
I was working until about one o’clock that day but my mother-in-law, who is a teacher here in Williams Lake, first went downtown around lunchtime at which point two very separate information centers were happening.
Join us and have hot dogs galore!
At one camp, the Taseko mine representatives were serving burnt hot dogs to visitors. There wasn’t much of a crowd, but the vice president of the mine was offering her students jobs if the mine was allowed to come in.
Meanwhile, at the park nearby the Tsilhqot’in nation had prepared a lunchtime feast. There was music and dancing. Most of her friends were at the park. In fact, most of the crowd seemed to be at the park.
Posted in Canada, Culture War Report, environmentalism, news, politics
Tagged British Columbia, Canada, copper, Culture, economy, first nations, First Nations Rights, Fish Lake, gold, government, mining, money, New Prosperity Mine, politics, race, society, Taseko, Teztan Biny, Tsilhqot'in, Williams Lake
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