{"id":67,"date":"2002-09-28T12:49:37-04:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-28T20:49:37+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=67"},"modified":"2002-09-28T12:49:37-04:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-28T20:49:37+00:00","slug":"breaking-down-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/09\/28\/breaking-down-the-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking down the door"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been listening to Steven Page on CBC Radio’s Stranded<\/p>\n\n

We interrupt this post to ridicule the CBC’s radio guide page<\/a>. I wanted to link to Stranded, so I went to the site and clicked the title link… which moved me back to the top of the page, as most poorly-written open-in-a-new-window<\/q> JavaScript links do because I’ve disabled window opening<\/a> in Mozilla<\/a>. So I went to the source<\/a> to find out what page was actually being pointed to–often embedded verbatim in a JavaScript function–and found the following:<\/p>\n

<a class=”lgblackbold” href=”#”>Stranded<\/a><\/strong><br>This Saturday on Stranded, host Jane Hawtin welcomes Steven Paige of the Barenaked Ladies. Find out which book, movie, munchie and – most of all – music – he’d like to be stranded with – and where! That’s Stranded, Saturday morning at 11 (11:30 NT) on CBC Radio One.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What’s wrong with this? You can’t get there from here, because there is no target<\/em>. In fact, according to the list of programs<\/a>, not only is there no page for the program, but it doesn’t even exist.<\/p>\n

(And I’ll be kind and refrain from pointing out that they’ve misspelled the guest’s name<\/em>.) (Um, yeah, whatever.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Ahem.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

As I was saying, I’ve been listening to Steven Page from Barenaked Ladies<\/a> on Stranded, a program hosted by Jane Hawtin where her guests discuss their stranded-on-a-desert-island-with-only<\/a><\/q> selections. While discussing his food of choice, and whether he’d want something he likes or something sustaining, he mentioned that he’s Jewish. And I realized that a) I didn’t know that, and b) it doesn’t matter to me. I don’t know what religion most public figures belong to–other than the ones who are known for their faith, like, say, the Pope–and I don’t particularly care to. I’m slightly more interested to discover that someone’s an atheist, but as a trivia buff, any religious affiliation (or lack of same) is just another fact.<\/p>\n\n

The title of this post, of course, is inspired by Brad Garrett<\/a>‘s 2002 Emmy speech, where he deadpanned I just hope that this award breaks down the door for Jewish people who are trying to get into show business.<\/q> Religion is funny.<\/a><\/p><\/div>

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