An article I wrote for the wondercafe.ca website. You can read it here.

During the month of December 2008, I wrote virtual advent calendar for WonderCafe.ca where I talked about something from the arts or pop culture to do with Christmas. These were sacred or secular, from high or low culture, something brilliant or totally tacky.

An article I wrote for the wondercafe.ca website. You can read it here.

I wrote this review of Bill Maher’s film Religilous for the wondercafe.ca website. You can read the review here

I wrote this review of The Dark Knight for the wondercafe.ca website. You can read the review here.

An article I wrote for the wondercafe.ca website. You can read it here.

I wrote this review of the first season of Mad Men for the wondercafe.ca website. You can read the review here.

A review of Torchwood and Battlestar Galactica and their approaches to responsibility.

An article I wrote for the wondercafe.ca website. You can read it here.

A review of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, wherein I try to puzzle out the attraction of Anakin and Jar-Jar to young audiences…

In 1997, I stayed overnight with a million or so Britons (and others) outside Buckingham Palace to watch the funeral cortege of Princess Diana. This was what I wrote about the exprience.

A review of the British TV series This Life for Movement magazine that became perhaps the most controversial thing I’ve written to date.

Movement magazine used to have a feature called “The Book That Changed My Life”. I wrote about how George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four helped me out of a charismatic Christian dystopia not dissimilar to Winston Smith’s…

An article which I wrote while I was living in Britain about London’s only Canadian pub. It was published in Toronto in eye Weekly’s “Space For Rant” section in February, 1997