Before there was the interweb, there was Atlantic News on the corner of Queen and...what?...in Halifax. On Tuesday morning you could get the Sunday papers from the UK for about five bucks a pop - as well as about 300 other papers and a thousand magazines - and catch up on the snippets of news you caught in the buzzy, fading arcs of shortwave propagation from the BBC World Service. You would have one of the three beers from outside Canada available at the Nova Scotia Liquor Commission, sit on the deck and have a real international news experience. I recall reading the Observer article on Vanunu in1986 on Wally's porch at the LaMarchant Street house, thinking holy moly. Now he's "released" and I think holy moly. 18 years ago I thought - great, another source for my nuclear doom. Now I think - who cares, everybody's got them.
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- Articles for the sister station, A Good Beer Blog.
- Pick any day's tunes as heard on CBC Ottawa's All in a Day hosted by my personal emailing buddy, Brent Bambury. You won't find a better music selection on radio anywhere - certainly not on the deeply dowdy CBC.
- Another plume catches my eye.
- Stuff less serious than Stuff.
- From Jan to March 2006, I tried a group humour blog with others on the subject of Canadian politics. It did not last but the posts were worth keeping. #16 was banned. There were no comments. It was at www.shadowcabinet.ca.
- Some writings and other junk of little real interest unless you like law or are a Crow.
A display of hideous graphics focused on the goal of figuring out where the smokestack I can see to the south is sitting.
Comments
Donna - April 21, 2004 8:03 PM
Morris. Queen and Morris. That's the corner on which Atlantic News is situated. It's on the web, as well: http://www.atlanticnews.ns.ca
It's still a kick-ass newsstand, though the Blowers Street Paper Chase became my favourite two years ago when it opened its funky cybercafe upstairs.