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Welcome to episode #121 of the TVA Podcast. In this week’s episode, we welcome David "RUBY" Reuben! Go to the main podcast page where you can listen online and subscribe to the RSS feed or download the MP3 file. Don’t feel like downloading every week? Click HERE...
Read MoreWhen the week starts, you’re usually able to eye your dayplanner/PDA/collection-of-beer-mats-with-appointments-blurrily-scrawled-on-them and plot out your course for the week like you were slaloming down a hill with élan (meaning ‘grace and ability’, and not the ski brand necessarily…I think mine are Head…no wait…they are Elan. Huh. That’s lucky.)
The past week had me scrambling all over the place and looking for coverage for my absences. With being in Ottawa for spots at Absolute, the prep for the Ottawa Comedy Awards Roast, and finding out the Toronto Star had something to say about me, it’s been a bit cah-razay.
I may just be on to something here. The third night of Comedy Above The Pub appears to be doing okay. A few things here have made me think that we could be getting something right.
Firstly, the bar continues to be supportive, and by “supportive” I mean there’s still cheap booze like Prohibition just got lifted. Apparently $3 goes a long way.
Welcome to episode #119 of the TVA Podcast. In this week’s episode, we welcome JO-ANNA DOWNEY! Go to the main podcast page where you can listen online and subscribe to the RSS feed or download the MP3 file. Don’t feel like downloading every week? Click HERE to...
Read MoreI’ve discovered there’s a new electronic Web 2.0-esque thing that’s happening lately that appears to be the same as leaving flowers at the site of a fatality. Once you have a friend that passes away, people have been going to their Facebook page and writing messages of sympathy to the recently deceased. It is cathartic in a way, and I think is a great testament to the person like an electronic guestbook that you’d sign at a visitation.
Today I found myself writing on my friend Rodney Pentland’s wall.