Author Archives: Iain K. MacLeod

Iain K. MacLeod

The Iain from Sydney. Worked at The Coast and the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax. Likes t-shirt and sneakers.

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Best Show FUN-draising Marathon

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 9-March-2010

Oh, hi there! It’s Tom Scharpling! The host of The Best Show On WFMU! You know me, right? We are into Week Two of the WFMU fundraising marathon. If you are not aware of it, this is how the station raises money to stay on the air. The station is 100 percent [...]

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Man-children of Men

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 18-February-2010

The Jerk (1979) Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) Big (1988) Clifford (1994) Cabin Boy (1994) Billy Madison (1995) Jack (1996) The Wrong Guy (1997) Freddie Got Fingered (2001) Elf (2003) The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (2004) Step Brothers (2008) Cyrus (2010)

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@PFTompkins -> YHZ

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 12-February-2010

Facebook brings comic to Halifax Through the magic power of Facebook, L.A.-based comedian Paul F. Tompkins is coming to Halifax March 27 to do two shows at The Company House at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., and tickets are now on sale. Tompkins, known for appearances on the cult HBO series Mr. Show and Tenacious D as [...]

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Enema Bag Jones

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 15-December-2009

The Wrong Guy (1997)—“Nelson Hibbert” DF: Yes, I wrote that with Jay Kogen, who I met while doing It’s Pat, and my friend Dave Higgins, who we had all met because we were on Comedy Central together. He used to be part of a troupe called Higgins Boys And Gruber. Kids In The Hall really liked [...]

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FREE At The Purple Onion

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 11-December-2009

FREE Zach Galifianakis: Live At The Purple Onion | YouTube from Shout! Factory.

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My Old Geocities Vanity URL

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 26-October-2009

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/4313

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The Comedic & Cartoon Minority

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 22-October-2009

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Hollywood Reporter Reviews in Review

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 22-October-2009

Astro Boy: “among the year’s best” Fantastic Mr. Fox: “too sly for its own good” Where the Wild Things Are: “uninvolving adaptation”

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Windom Earle to the Max

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 9-October-2009

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So Happy Together

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 30-September-2009

Very often people oddly put books against the internet…I love them. You don’t throw away your books when you buy a computer. You keep both. The beauty of living in the present day is you don’t abandon the past. The past co-exists. —Stephen Fry, Stephen Fry: The internet and Me | BBC News Magazines are my happy [...]

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The Twisted Song by RoMoMac

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 30-September-2009

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A Serious Post

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 17-September-2009

02-OCT-09: The Coen Brother’s A Serious Man Like much of the Coens’ work, the climax is unexpected and thrilling, confounding and infuriating. The lack of high-profile performers lends an authenticity to the project, making it feel lived-in and real, instead of “Here’s a bunch of our famous friends in a vanity project.” Though never as absurd, [...]

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My God, that’s so cool!

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 30-August-2009

“I’ve never seen more pride at Microsoft. You walk through the campus, and you see people’s laptops that have ‘I’m a PC’ stickers on them. I walk in the company store, and there are these huge banners that say, ‘I’m a PC’ and shirts and ties and mugs. I think I made a difference. My [...]

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links for 2009-08-21

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 21-August-2009

Wii T-shirt (tags: wishlist shirt clothing)

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links for 2009-08-19

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 19-August-2009

Thesis Theme for WordPress (tags: webdev wordpress template theme) Ultimate htaccess Examples | evolt.org (tags: webdev .htaccess programming server webmaster apache) Hivelogic – How To Prepare a Mac For Sale (tags: mac resale reformat cleanup refresh)

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links for 2009-08-15

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 15-August-2009

mezzoblue § Chalkwork Payments Royalty-free Icons (tags: design images webdesign graphics icon payments ecommerce) Griffin Technology: TuneJuice for iPhone – Battery Backup for iPod and iPhone (tags: iphone touch backup griffin power supply)

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links for 2009-08-14

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 14-August-2009

Know Your Meme – Yo Dawg…Shirt T-Shirt (tags: tshirt wishlist) stillepost.ca (tags: music canada calendar forum messageboard concerts)

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links for 2009-08-13

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 13-August-2009

Pipa Restaurant (tags: halifax restaurant argyle brazil portugal)

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links for 2009-08-12

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 12-August-2009

Character and glyph encoding in HTML (tags: webdev reference html characters encoding) a tiny thread (tags: twitter tools networking conversation thread discussion) WTFPL – Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License (tags: licence wtfpl licensing free opensource license legal)

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Sony, Warner, Universal and EMI Put Finishing Touches On Selves

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 11-August-2009

One senior record label insider said: “Ours will be a file that you click on, it opens and it would have a totally brand-new look, with a launch page and all the different options. When you click on it you’re not just going to get the ten tracks, you’re going to get the artwork, the [...]

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Clifford (1994) featuring Where the Wild Things Are

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 10-August-2009

.flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Clifford (1994) featuring Where the Wild Things Are Pt 1, originally uploaded by boost ventilator. Clifford (1994) featuring Where the Wild Things Are Pt 2, originally uploaded by boost ventilator. Clifford (1994) featuring Where the Wild Things Are Pt [...]

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Helmet the Helmet

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 9-August-2009

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links for 2009-08-07

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 7-August-2009

Small, things to make OOo useful as a blog editor | OpenOffice.org Forum (tags: OOo openoffice html translate italics bold editing formating)

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links for 2009-08-06

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 6-August-2009

WordPress › Twitter News Feed « WordPress Plugins (tags: wordpress twitter plugin wp import hashtags) Blazin' Barlow's BBQ (tags: halifax dartmouth bbq truck streetmeat) Gracious Indian Restaurant – Halifax, NS (tags: halifax restaurant indian)

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