Dave's Yes/No Review: Fire Pots (Lougheed at Willingdon)

Yes!

Radio Drama

Radio drama was the first writing that really hooked me.
I remember listening to my folks' radio as I fell asleep.

While I'm not old enough to have heard Dimension X as I was growing up. This was the kind radio I loved.

Tips for Young Writers

Great tips for Young Writers?
These are great for any writers.

Daily Writing Routines

In a related article...

Some sci-fi writers' daily writing routines.

Great procrastinating material.

Writers' Work Spaces

Writer's Porn
The work spaces some sci-fi and fantasy writers.

I am listening to...

I am listening to Deep Thought (s).

Orphan Black: Mid-Season Report (Abridged)

You're losing me.

Dave's Yes/No Television Review: Bates Motel (Season One) A&E

Yes. (And no one is more surprised than I am).

Lessons Learned from Season Three of Boardwalk Empire

I enjoyed Season One of Boardwalk Empire. I liked the world, the performances (for the most part) and the writing was pretty good too. Season Two sucked. Characters hit the same beats over and over as the stories treaded water for no reason that I could see. I was glad when it was over. I was finished with it and I didn't see how it could proceed into a third season based on the thinly spread elements at the end of a second. Then came Season Three. From the first scene of the first episode of the season it grabbed me and held my head under water until I surrendered. It would be too simple to say that a single character saved a show. There was an infusion of new talent creating the stories and shooting them too. History helped out the story department too. But I'm never going to under-estimate the power of one character to turn a world on its head the way Bobby Cannavale's Gyp Rossetti's did. Rossetti raised the stakes in every scene he was in. He forced every character he came in contact with to take a stand. He always made me wonder what was going to happen next. And he did it by making choices and following through on them.

Dave's Yes/No Restaurant Review: Famoso (Commercial at Kitchener)

Yes.

Dave's Yes/No Television Review: Orphan Black

Yes.

Why Downtown Abbey Season Three Sucks.

Ken Levine makes a calm and lucid case of the rant I've been making for the past couple months.

Dave's Yes/No Burger review: Cannibal Cafe (Commercial Drive)

Yes.

Dave's Yes/No Movie Review: This is 40

no.

Dave's Yes/No TV Review: Downton Abbey

No. (Hate me now, thank me after the Season Three Christmas "special".)