Category Archives: Quotes

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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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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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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Best Infomercial

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

NASCAR as we have come to know it must die. If ever there was a case for assisted suicide, it is present-day big league stock car racing. I suspect we’ve find ourselves at the bedside of this morbidly obese, gluttonous, gaudy reflection of society after following a predictable path. An arc. A gently rising arc [...]

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Recession Proofing

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 17-November-2008

This isn’t going to be the “we are awesome designers and make shit look cool” value. This is going to be the “this design will make this thing work and improve efficiency, increase sales, and save money” value. If you’re not doing that for someone, somehow, you are in trouble. —Dan James, silverorange (Why Good Design [...]

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Tatamagouche tipped the scales on enthusiasm

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 28-July-2008

We are expanding, but Tatamagouche is not a market we are expanding into.—Scott Samways, owner/manager of Hooters in Dartmouth Hooters not opening in Tatamagouche | Nova Scotia Business Journal In other Tatamagouche news: The village in northern Nova Scotia has been chosen as the setting for the next instalment of the reality TV show, The Week the Women [...]

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The Perils of Peeing in the Woods

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 4-July-2008

Two days after he got lost wearing only pants, a ball cap and shoes…Mr. MacIsaac seemed in pretty good spirits for someone who had spent two nights sleeping shirtless on the forest floor. Two days in the bush, lots of bites | The Chronicle Herald

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A Halifax-born version of the Turkish doner kebab, a dish made from meat sliced off of a vertical spit

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 2-July-2008

“Essentially, we really wanted to identify what the risks were with the product and put in place strategies to deal with those risks,” said Mike Horwich, Nova Scotia’s director of food preparation and a member of the federal committee. Safety group wraps up study of donairs | CBC

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Busting stupid moves in a big sweaty crowd

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 23-June-2008

If you’re going to get into a situation like this (especially a Windom Earle show) expect to get drenched with sweat; not only yours, but that of the people around you too. —Pat Garrity

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Dan Norman

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 9-June-2008

There’s something about a recording that when you feeling like you’re going your voice is going on tape you’re liable to, well, do some little thing, make a little slip in saying a word or something in the song that just won’t be perfect. It’s human nature I guess to be a little bit nervous [...]

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Actors with Passable Voices

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 21-May-2008

…she comes across as a touch slow, as if she’d been hit in the head with a blunt object before she got to the studio. Or, at least, as if she should have been. —Carl Wilson on Scarlett Johansson covering Tom Waits Lost in translation | globeandmail.com

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Tats

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 20-May-2008

In only a few short years, we find that the “tribal tat” we were staring at in every dance club on the Jersey shore has become a 20-color tableau of Bea Arthur giving Alex Trebek a hand-job on the calf of the professional dog walker ahead of us in line at the community gardens bike [...]

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Macevangelist

By Iain K. MacLeod | Published: 1-May-2008

Mac home users are constantly derided as some kind of “cult”, completely in thrall to Steve Jobs. But it’s Microsoft that has created an entire church, with priests, acolytes and altar boys (also known as “Access developers”). Are Macs a smart career move? | The Macalope

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