I spent my lunch break today walking up to the CBC picket line at the London bureau on Piccadilly Street… and walking back to work when I found no one there. On the upside, I did get a chance to catch up on Shelagh Rogers’ lockout podcasts.
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My own contribution to the lockout button collection. Share and enjoy!
I want my CBC
Of the whole set, though, this one says it all.
Sentences never before written
My partner is a folk musician. He’ll be the real breadwinner now.
Planet CBC
Partially in response to the CBC’s lockout of CMG members, I’ve started Planet CBC, a conglomeration of as many CBC weblog feeds as I’ve been able to find (mostly from Tod Maffin’s great CBCunplugged.com). Note that, like Tod’s list, it includes the weblogs of both management and locked-out employees. Note also that I specifically didn’t name it Planet CBC Lockout; it’s my hope that at least some of the bloggers will continue after the current situation is resolved.
For those who care, Planet CBC is generated using a locally-modified version of Planet. My changes were mainly to use a more recent version of the Universal Feed Parser, although I’ve also made a few other improvements.
Fergus tornado pictures
I just got these cool pictures in my e-mail of the tornado that hit Fergus… NOT!. After a bit of searching I discovered they were actually taken by Mike Hollingshead, a storm-chaser from Nebraska. Tell your friends!
CBC lockout
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation recently locked out members of the Canadian Media Guild. I sympathize with both sides and, if the various weblogs from CMG members (and one CBC manager) are any indication, they’d all like to be back working with each other too. A couple of station managers are keeping Radio One morning programming limping along with reruns and a lot of music, but I miss waking up to the southwestern Ontario edition of Ontario Morning, Anna-Maria Tremonti and The Voice on The Current, and (of course) Promo Girl.
It’s too late in the evening to continue cogently, so I’ll just point to Tod Maffin’s CBC Unplugged weblog. Tod’s blogroll links to just over thirty lockout-related blogs and sites, some of which have been set up just for the lockout and some of which have existed for a while (and I wish I knew before tonight that they did!).
My last thought before going to bed—and listening to not-CBC Overnight—is a plea to all those involved in the currently-stalled negotiations to get back to the table and settle this thing.
A modest proposal
The real problem with guns, violence itself perhaps, is that it’s cool. Same problem with cigarettes. Same problem, actually, with thong underwear. […] No one wants to look stupid. So how about we start spreading the message: using a gun makes you look like an idiot.
Guilty as charged
Then there is the uncritical praise, which is very pleasant to hear, and often conveys a simple but fundamental level of appreciation for what was done.
Release
Perhaps it’s crass, but I’ve been wondering: since I saw 30 plays using the festival’s Fringe Binge passes, would this experience be correctly termed a Fringe Purge?
OK, so it’s not nearly as funny as Andrew Zadel’s Compleat Wrks of the Lndn Frnge Festival (abridged) at last night’s Fringe Fried awards ceremony/massive party. If he can do that in just a few hours with as much back pain as reported, watch out when he’s fully healthy.