It’s been quite a while since I’ve done this, but I’ve actually dedicated three past Fame Days to YouTube channels/shows: StarCrafts, Geek Love, and Munchies. Thinking hard on what to write about for today, I almost slapped myself when I realized that I’ve never blogged about my three favourite YouTube comedians.
Late in December 2011 “Bathroom Blues” came online, heralding the first of dozens of videos to come-
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Tagged Ahmed Bharoocha, comedy, Comedy Central, Dead Kevin, Dead Kevin Sketch, Fame Day, Friends, funny, Jack Robichaud, John Hale, Maureen Bharoocha, roommates, Ryan O'Flanagan, sketches, videos, YouTube
Look at that image on the right. Look at it. Falling back on that whole idea that “a picture is worth a thousand words” that should really be all I need to present to make the point that child beauty pageants are really not a good thing.
I like to fall back on facts, though, so I went out of my way to Google the words “how child beauty pageant facts” and clicked on an article helpfully titled “5 reasons child pageants are bad for kids.”
This article had some pretty standard stuff like how these girls are too young to refuse and how they’re clearly being sexualized through these pageants [I’ll be referring to the latter article again later]. What surprised me the most was their fourth reason, which was that hair spray can actually act as a hormone disruptor and stunt growth or cause lung cancer. Continue reading
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Tagged ban, child beauty pageants, children, Fame Day, France, hair spray, harmful, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, hormone disruptor, negative effects, sexualization
There are a number of Twitter pages I could have focused on today, from the subtly hilarious to the judiciously-minded, but none of those address a pretty hefty issue a lot of us young people find ourselves bumping into.
The page For Exposure, by comic artist and generally all-around cool guy Ryan Estrada, does.
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Tagged artists, compensation, design, disclosure, exposure, Fame Day, freelancing, jo, job listing, pay, professional, Twitter, unpaid, work, writing
I do love a good story of an individual sticking it to “the system”, i.e. the reign of capitalism. But having grown up in British Columbia’s Shuswap region, land of rich earthy gardens and succulent fruit (getting hungry?), I was shocked to discover that in some areas that act of rebellion can be as simple as growing a garden. It’s illegal.
But, but, but WHY???
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Tagged British Columbia, City gardens, Culture, Fame Day, fines, food, Gardening, Guerrilla Gardening, illegal, jail, Julie Bass, laws, Michel Beauchamp and Josée Landry, politics, poverty, restrictions, Ron Finley, Shuswap, society
I say with complete honesty that I there are times that I feel genuine pity for those of you who don’t live in Toronto. I mean, sure, there’s the fact that it’s one of the most diverse cities in the world, is home of the 3rd highest tower in the world [underneath which is brewed some pretty decent beer], and is the setting for pretty much the entirety of the Scott Pilgrim series-
You can click the image above to check out a whole bunch more.
No, the reason for that, dear readers, is The Grid. A weekly publication, this newspaper describes itself on its website as:
…a weekly city magazine and daily website providing a fresh, accessible voice for Toronto. Our goal is to capture the vibe and energy of a city in ascendance, largely by rejecting the glossy, doggedly aspirational vision of it you see in so many other publications. Continue reading
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This may shock you, but I’ve only ever been to one “comic-con.” I’m not counting the three or so times I attended the Toronto Comic and Arts Festival, since it doesn’t really adhere as much to the stereotype of what such conventions typically are [or at the very least what people imagine them to be]. Namely: cosplayers as far as the eye can see.
cosplay [October 31, 2006 Urban Word of the Day]: Literally “Costume Play.” Dressing up and pretending to be a fictional character (usually a sci-fi, comic book, or anime character).
And people are going to dress up like whatever characters they want, like Power Girl and Lady Deadpool, seen below:
The girl on the left is cosplayer Ardella, and this image was taken from her Facebook page.
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