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Streaming on CraveTV (Canadian on demand video service), Letterkenny is a small show about a small town in rural Ontario (here is a taste). It is based on a web series Letterkenny Problems, available on YouTube. [more inside]
posted by ODiV on Apr 3, 2016 - 22 comments

If The Blind Assassin was a layer cake, the layers would be the impossibility of true love, the inexorable destructive force of time, and chocolate. The frosting is pulp and newspaper. It's a remarkable novel, if only for the way Margaret Atwood weaves together three wildly different genres into a whole. There's the gentle comedy of old age about an old woman living a rather solitary existence in a small Southern Ontario town. There are her reminiscences of her life and family, an old-fashioned bildungsroman or family saga. Then there's a story about a doomed romance and pulp science fiction. Each on their own a very good book, but together form a great one. [more inside]
posted by Kattullus on Dec 1, 2015 - 2 comments