Blog | Liam O'Donnell

anticipation: it’s all I got left

by liam | Dec 22, 2004 | pre-wp

When it comes to Christmas and the holidays, scrooges and grumps don’t get any scroogier or grumpier than me. I hate this time of year: the crowds, the cold and all that nail-to-the-brain candy cane in-store holiday muzak that makes you want to chuck bathbombs...

Bill Moyers Signs off Now

by liam | Dec 17, 2004 | pre-wp

One of the great things about living in Toronto is that for a one-time $20.00 investment, a pair of rabbit ears will give you the best of the best that television has to offer. I’m talking public television: provincial, Canadian and American. The airwaves are...

CANSCAIP Bio Online

by liam | Dec 15, 2004 | pre-wp

I joined CANSCAIP (Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers) at the end of the summer and it’s been a great experience so far. It’s great to be part of a large group, spanning the country, dedicated to promoting the arts...

Canada’s One-Tonne Challenge

by liam | Dec 9, 2004 | pre-wp

As the Americans continue to dump on the Kyoto Protocol, Canada is challenging their citizens to make Kyoto a reality. The One-Tonne Challenge is a call to all Canadians to conserve energy and cut their emissions by one tonne. That may sound like a lot but, as this...

Comic kind of day

by liam | Dec 8, 2004 | pre-wp

After spending the morning finishing the latest Max Finder script, I went on a little blog stroll. I started here and from there went to here to here to here. And that’s where I discovered Erika Moen’s great comic: i like girls. It’s a simple,...

Found: Slowpoke

by liam | Dec 7, 2004 | pre-wp

As always, I’m probably pretty late to the party on this one, but I just discovered Jen Sornesen and her Slowpoke comic strip. Even better, she has a Slowpoke blog where she gives voice to the motives behind each of her comics. Since I’m almost finished...

For Kids Gore Still Number One

by liam | Dec 5, 2004 | literacy, pre-wp

I wish I was talking about politics, but were not that lucky. When it comes boys and books, it seems that horror and gore are still the way to get them reading. According to this article in the Guardian, children are still lapping up all the zombie guts authors can...

Kleenex = Kleercut

by liam | Dec 3, 2004 | pre-wp

Greenpeace Canada has launched their Kleercut campaign, warning of the waste that goes into the manufacture of toilet paper and tissues. The worst offender is the Kimberly-Clark corporation, the makers of Kleenex brand tissues (heard of them?) From the Kleercut site:...