Did you know that the grand tradition of the parody has been around since the time of ancient Greece, dear readers? In fact, the word parody itself has Greek roots, dear readers. With par meaning “beside” and ody representing an “ode” or “song,” dear readers. Heck, even now in contemporary society, we have many instances…
Remembrance Day is an especially trying time for veterans and surviving families of war. They recall the good times and the bad, in particular those members of the armed forces who have died in the line of duty. This day has been in place for almost a century now – It was established on November…
Facebook is a huge social network. Like seriously huge. This we already know. With just over 1.79 billion users, it’s even more popular than YouTube, which has roughly 1 billion users, but definitely more so than Instagram (5M) and Twitter combined (3M). With such an incredible base of people using it on a regular basis,…
Wiz Khalifa is something of an enigma, he jumped off the lot with Black and Yellow back in 2010, but did you know he had been generating buzz since about 2005? And ever since then he’s collaborated with a ton of other crowd disturber personalities. Did you know he has over 100 collaborative efforts? He…
You know what they say – if you don’t like what you got, why don’t you change it. If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it. Raise a little hell of your own. That’s been my modus operandi ever since I broke up with my long-term partner in October of 2014. Just over two…
Always be closing. That’s one of those expressions that a lot of people know about but few follow through on. It is supposedly a great philosophy when it comes to sales. I’ve personally never seen the movie, shocker I know, but it differs only from the play on one count. You know what I’m referring…
An audience are a group of people who participate in a stage show, performance art, literary reading, musical act, speech or other art form and experience it. When that experience moves from the realm of silent engagement into active involvement, we call that audience participation, and it’s an amazing thing to behold. The Rocky Horror…
It’s difficult to find an album that feels timeless, because most of the time, we are in that time and have no frame of reference, but when you start cycling through the back catalogue of musical history it can become pretty obvious when something is brilliant. And if you’re okay with it, dear readers, I’d…
Film criticism is one of my favourite skill sets, but it’s been a hard won battle to acquire it. Even more so to know when to use it. Let me explain something dear readers – I haven’t always felt the love when I have shared my opinions on film. Even now I don’t always getting…
When most people think of Halloween, they think of trick or treating, costumes parties, parades, bobbing for apples, carving pumpkins, pranks, haunted houses, lots of monster related activities, and in my case, horror movie marathons as a teenager. But the thing is that Halloween has history reaching back almost two thousand years. Many believe that…