Posts by D. H. McKee

Clive Barker’s One Flesh Exhibition

Flesh is our indisputable commonality. Whatever our race, our religion, our politics we are faced every morning with the fact...

Guns don’t kill people

Gun manufacturers do. At least that's what this jury found.

Better Engagements

Ten Reasons Why You Should Never Accept a Diamond Ring from Anyone, Under Any Circumstances, Even If They Really Want to Give You One

Super-Fantastic-Update-a-Tron

Wow, it’s been a long time since my last post. I guess I’ve been busier than I thought. This is...

Night on the Galactic Beta

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Night on the Galactic Railroad

In an age where films cater to the most base desires of the low class film-goer, and animation is dismissed as "kid's movies", along comes another Anime title that turns all of that upside-down. Gisaburo Sugii's "Night On the Galactic Railroad" ("Ginga tetsud� no yoru")(1985) is just such a film, and ranks up among some of the best Anime ever created, alongside the works of Hayao Miyazaki, including "Spirited Away," "Princess Mononoke," and "My Neighbor Totoro."

Lenore Animated Movie

Sony Family Entertainment has optioned the right to develop LENORE into an animated feature film. The project is currently "under development" and has not begun production, which means there is still no cast, director or final script. We will let you know how the project develops, but it will be at least a few years before it hits theaters.

We spy

Spying on Canadians' online activities will not help anyone win the war on terrorism, a University of Toronto professor told a conference Thursday.
Attendees at the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research (CACR) Information Security workshop heard a number of government and academic representatives speak about privacy and security issues. The event, organized for the third year by the Ontario Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner and University of Waterloo's CACR, focused on what effects post 9/11 legislation is having on Canadian's privacy rights.

Unflattering hot sauce label has skater Tonya Harding all fired up

Tonya Hot Sauce features an unflattering caricature of disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding outside a dumpy trailer, cigarette in mouth, ice skates in one hand and a hubcap in the other.

Orchestra plays with its food

Matthias Meinharter, who invented and plays the leek violin, said: "When I was young I was told not to play with my food. Now we're playing with food, but we still eat it afterwards."