Oct 19th, 2009
Mondoville Daily Scroll: October 19
Today on the Scroll: grumpy 40-year-old puppet comes to town for earnest provincial government photo op; newspaper trashes the squarest of cars; social media for people who socialize; Balloon Boy’s dad too unbalanced for the CBC; and will the last three celebrity sycophants please go away?
Oct 16th, 2009
Mondoville: the short week that just kinda flew by
Not unlike the Daily Scroll now happening here each morning, some late-breaking @mondoville stuff trending into the weekend, plus some posts of note you might have missed along the way. Ghostbusters 3 Hits Snags: Dan Aykroyd Says “No Green Light” Suggests Funding Is Scarce [The Playlist, see also 50 second clip] Can Robin Kay mend her ways? [...]
Oct 16th, 2009
Toronto’s film industry forced to settle for being ‘Pennsylvania North’
“Rising loonie threatens to yell ‘cut’ on film industry,” read a National Post headline this week, and we’ve heard this story before in 2004. The four-picture-and-counting Resident Evil series, increasingly indicative of the kind of international production that gets shot here, has struck around even as film production expenditures decreased by 25 per cent mostly [...]
Oct 16th, 2009
Personal Brand Camp: we are all doing this for a show
The planet was transfixed by a boy in a balloon in the Colorado skies during much of the four hours scheduled for Humber College’s Personal Brand Camp. We all can’t be as cunning as 6-year-old Falcon, so an afternoon dedicated to exploring social media celebrity involved reaching out to the Twitter. What did these (mostly) [...]
Oct 16th, 2009
Mondoville Daily Scroll: October 16
Today on the Scroll: The secret celebrity that everyone loves; street furniture purveyors know City Hall is full of suckers; unpublishing exposed at Canada’s National Newspaper; the medium fails the message; and $218 rubber boots being marketed with emphasis on Canadian military cachet.
Oct 15th, 2009
Meaghan Smith: the making of the next big whimsical thing
The list of artists for CBC Radio 2’s parochial Great Canadian Song Quest classifies London, Ontario-reared Meaghan Smith as a representative of Halifax, because that’s where she moved after college to get a job in animation, but her new album The Cricket’s Orchestra was produced in Toronto. And her single is positioned to be pretty [...]
Oct 15th, 2009
‘Love Boat’ doc knows impotence plays well at Stage West
A slightly faded celebrity on the marquee at the Stage West in Mississauga used to be kind of a big deal in the late-’80s through mid-’90s. There were representatives of M*A*S*H (Jamie Farr! Loretta Swit! Elliot Gould!), Three’s Company (Joyce DeWitt! Don Knotts! Richard Kline!) and even Ann B. Davis, not as “Alice,” but as [...]
Oct 15th, 2009
Mondoville Daily Scroll: October 15
Today on the Scroll: a department store reinvention begins again; prematurely wed pop singer has a domestic revelation; magazine still paying people to read it; most DJ-driven clubs would rather text message than buy alt-weekly adverts; hair salon booze cans investigated. Complete details below!
Oct 14th, 2009
‘Toronto Life’: water cooler journalism moves into the poor house
The glossy about this town recently had its name removed from the bankrupt mall at Yonge and Dundas, a few years after its partnership in a local television venture went nowhere, and owner St. Joseph Corporation has closed many of its mainstream magazines (Elm Street, Gardening Life, Saturday Night, Shift, Wish) in the seven years [...]
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