The Strawman

Last December I requested to write a piece on the DFA DJ’s tour for the magazine I was contributing to at the time, the recently out-of-prin...

45:33 leaked sometime in October of 2006, and at the time, apart from the first twenty minutes, I didn’t bother (that is, didn’t have the a...

An aberration on Spoon’s “ The Ghost of You Lingers ” sounds like a nullity of sound, a tear threatening to void the entire song. A closeted...

The Strawman officially turned three on April 18th, which is, in the fickleness and celerity of our current culture, not an insignificant a...

(Some preliminary and still gestating thoughts) I hate social networking. Only after much scorn and derision and coercion did I relent and ...

This typifies how incredibly derelict I was in following the goings-on in Canadian political life during my long absence. It would be emba...

Tokyo Sushi - Osaka Roll Originally uploaded by Jon . . I moved to Japan. That was around five months ago. Not that anyone really...

We here at the Strawman love, love Aaron Sorkin . We love his wit, his assured charm, his facility with the spoken and written word, and, n...

After some infelicitous words about Mohammed's teachings and their broader implications on the essence of Islam, namely that they result...

I got my hands on a leaked version review copy of Idlewild about two weeks ago and after repeated listening have nothing exactly laudatory...

I went to see this a couple of weekends ago and was generally surprised at how well Michael Mann turned the Regan era decadence and gloss of...

And therein lies the dilemma . With all the hemming and hawing going on in American political circles (or perhaps it’s only the cable news ...

As quick as I am to disparage Stephen Harper and his Conservative government, as loath as I am to admit that he's doing some counterintu...

The newest issue of n+1 , Reconstruction, arrived on Tuesday, and it’s a thick one. The Intellectual Scene column chronicling the piquant ...

What universe do we live in when Daryn Kagan of CNN can say " It looks like a victory for the former stripper Anna Nicole Smith at the ...

Gerard Kennedy, former Ontario education miniter, is running for the Liberal leadership. His intention: " To make Canada the first int...

Last week at around this time I was making my way through Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural lodestar, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ...

I'm literally out the door on my way to Connecticut, so I'll dispense with all the formalities. I'll comment later on the CYHSY...

The Great Game has begun again in an entirely different context. This time, instead of Central Asia it’s Eastern Europe, predominantly Ort...

Hat tip to Prime Minister Stephen Harper for visiting our Canadian troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Yes it looks like a cynical photo-op, an...