Category Archives: Distractions

Distant relatives.

By Jesse, himself. | Published: November 20, 2007

Occasionally, one of the masses that read the missives on this page leave comments in unrelated articles about something they see in the list of links I provide. The links that appear there are little bits and pieces that I pick up from trolling the feedreaders for things that interest me. I rationalize that I’m [...]

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Hockey and Disco. Oy.

By Jesse, himself. | Published: August 15, 2007

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Glorious Discoveries

By Jesse, himself. | Published: July 20, 2007

Well, I’m back from directing Bedtime Stories at Upper Canada Playhouse and I’m slowly digging out of my backlog. But I just wanted to post a great online radio station that I’ve found. It’s a Jazz and Heritage radio station in New Orleans called WWOZ and it is absolutely amazing. I’ve been listening for two [...]

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The best 2 minute commercial I’ve seen.

By Jesse, himself. | Published: June 18, 2007

I used to believe that episodic tv could barely compete with the production value of 30-second tv spots. Commercials had $2 million for 30 seconds – an episode of a series had less budget to make 52 minutes. The only leg-up was story-and-character: time to develop was on the side of the series. But 2 [...]

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Checking the Swells

By Jesse, himself. | Published: June 13, 2007

I promised this post for last Friday but a new site launch for portcredit.com threw a bit of a tire-iron into the best laid plans. Having said that I continue to be at once fascinated and terrified by surfing. The shot in the previous post of Greg Long beneath the massive wave captures it perfectly. [...]

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