All Hepped Up On Hype

Waiting in the dentist’s reception area longer than usual, owing to ‘protracted extraction issues’ with an earlier patient, I’m informed, some professions requiring the use of euphemism more than others, I pick up the 29th Annual Hollywood Issue of Vanity Fair from the table beside me.

A shimmering periodical dedicated to showcasing the glitz and glamour of big-time movie and TV stars?

Finally!

Voice given to the underrepresented and forgotten among us. Continue reading

Angertainment

What’s not to like about this? If you’re in favour of stuff like charter rights, collective bargaining, living wages, a healthy education system and Doug Ford getting yelled at, that is.

Yay Sid! Continue reading

Guillotines & Kulaks

I don’t know how to process last week’s New Yorker article by Evan Osnos, The Haves and Have-Yachts. In my day, the well-to-do were satisfied sharing nautical space with a handful of their social inferiors on the most basic of three-hour tours. Although, it is true, they were just millionaires, and the wife.

Now it’s all about billionaires, their Pomeranians and superyachts. Continue reading