Oct

29

ComedyCentral.com and TheDailyShow.com now blocking Canadian visitors

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Comedy Central’s Motherload is like the “interweb mecca” for The Daily Show and The Colbert Report fans. It offers a fairly large archive of clips for both shows, streamed for free 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Whenever you wanted a Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert (or *insert your favourite correspondent’s name here*) fix, you knew where to go. Because we all know with the recent Viacom (Comedy Central’s parent company) versus YouTube lawsuit, it’s pretty much the only source for video clips for these shows.

Then there was news of a better, more spectacular and centralized new site set to be revealed in October for fans of The Daily Show. The new TheDailyShow.com was trumpeted as “the ultimate online destination for ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’ fans”. No longer would The Daily Show have to piggyback off the main Comedy Central website and, most exciting of all, the new site would feature video clips from every episode dating back to 1999, the year Jon Stewart took over the reins of The Daily Show, and would be expanded to include the show’s entire video history, totaling well over 13,000 high-quality clips [ source ]. It was a TDS fan’s dream! (The Colbert Report currently does not have plans to have a similar video archive centric website of its own)

Unfortunately, and quite sadly so, us TDS fans up north are being left out. We’re just on the outside, looking in, whimpering and greatly irritated by the fact that when we now click to either ComedyCentral.com or TheDailyShow.com, we are greeted by this lovely page seen on your right… before being redirected to thecomedynetwork.ca. Thanks a lot CTVglobemedia.

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Sep

12

On the topic of Britney Spears

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Lordy, the epic comeback performance of Britney Spears has been talked about to death all over the media outlets. Or shall I rephrase that, the epic mess of a performance. Nonetheless, I can’t let this magnitude of an event in pop culture history go down without adding my own commentary.

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(1037 words, 4 images, estimated 4:09 mins reading time)

Aug

22

My Trip to Tokyo, Japan (Part III)

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A three part “photoblog” on my October 2006 visit to Tokyo. Continuation from Part II. More pictures ahead!

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(826 words, 52 images, estimated 3:18 mins reading time)

Aug

22

My Trip to Tokyo, Japan (Part II)

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A three part “photoblog” on my October 2006 visit to Tokyo. Continuation from Part I. More pictures ahead!

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(847 words, 34 images, estimated 3:23 mins reading time)

Aug

21

My Trip to Tokyo, Japan (Part I)

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In October of 2006, I had the opportunity to visit Japan, a country I had wanted to visit for awhile now. So, as part of my post-graduation travels, I booked a trip to Tokyo to experience the unique Japanese culture meshed with urban life. I also got to visit such popular tourist spots as Mount Fuji (Fujisan), the Ginza district, Takeshita-d?ri street in the Harajuku area, Tokyo Dome City, etc. Picture heavy post below!

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(957 words, 28 images, estimated 3:50 mins reading time)

Jul

26

Hollywood: Ruining One Childhood Memory at a Time

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Alvin and the Chipmunks Movie

I’ve known about the movie development of popular, classic cartoon from the 80s (and, originally, the 50s) Alvin and the Chipmunks for awhile now. Upon seeing the first poster, with its image of our beloved chipmunks “hip-hop-ified”, which is a strange sight in itself, I was apprehensive about this news of a Hollywood adaptation of a cartoon that has been so entrenched into my childhood memories.

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(484 words, 2 images, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)