Randy McDonald·Jul 21, 2019Arthur. C. Clarke’s July 20, 2019: Life in the 21st CenturyI had been passingly aware of Arthur C Clarke’s 1986 book Arthur. C. Clarke’s July 20, 2019: Life in the 21st Century for some time. This…A response icon1A response icon1
Randy McDonald·Apr 30, 2019Some thoughts on the mass transit gaps of CanadaAfter VIA Rail’s service from Toronto to Niagara Falls, Ontario dropped us off in that border city’s train station yesterday morning, I…
Randy McDonald·Jan 6, 2019On the closure of Statler’s and the fate of citiesLast night, a link I tweeted to blogTO’s report on the sudden closure of Church Street’s Statler’s went viral in a minor way. Massive rent…
Randy McDonald·Nov 20, 2018Thoughts on debunking and writing and educating and creatingThe other week, someone on Facebook shared an infographic cartoon that really grabbed me.
Randy McDonald·Oct 29, 2018What do you think will happen to the United States? What should Canada do?Earlier this week, I linked to a post at JSTOR Daily, where Hope Reese interviewed historian Jill Lepore about the crisis facing American…
Randy McDonald·Aug 28, 2018[REVIEW] Box 4901, SummerworksI learned of the existence, at this year’s incarnation of the SummerWorks theatre festival, of the play Box 4901 through a post at critic…
Randy McDonald·Jul 25, 2018Nineteen photos from the Danforth and Greektown on a warm summer night (#danforthstrong)I took a walk east along the Danforth Avenue this evening, east into Greektown. The terrible mass shooting of the night of the 22nd of…
Randy McDonald·Jun 19, 2018On focus and fragmentation for aspirant online creative types like meI have been feeling more than a bit fragmented, more than a bit caught up in a mass of details which need to be attended to but cannot be…
Randy McDonald·Jun 11, 2018On the need to cultivate our gardensAs Canada seems to be heading for an unpleasantly personalized trade war with Trump’s United States and as I and most of my friends in…
Randy McDonald·Feb 10, 2018On the unreality of imagining chain migration to be a bad thingI have been paying attention to the world, as best as I can; I have been paying attention to demographics, though sadly not at Demography…
