http://www.liamdynes.com/blog Snap, yo! Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:37:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow, this place is dusty.  Here's hoping 2009 brings 2009 blog posts (or at least more than the handful 2008 brought). But, with new beginnings brings a look back at what has passed.  Without my usual preamble, and just cuz I feel like it, the top 10 new scripted pieces I ... http://www.liamdynes.com/blog/2009/01/new-year-old-cliche/ It's crazy time. Fall premiere time. The time when my PVR gets way too much of a workout, trying out new shows, catching up on old ones, and maybe discarding a few that are past their prime. Let's do this in a simple +/- (with maybe a neutral thrown in) to ... http://www.liamdynes.com/blog/2008/09/its-that-time-of-year-again/ Two pieces of advertising have struck me in the last 24 hours: 1. That Stephen Harper TV spot that has him sitting in front of a fire, extolling the virtues of his very cordial (thank you very much) working relationship he has with the two young fellows who happen to be ... http://www.liamdynes.com/blog/2008/09/on-two-advertisements/ I think I know why I’ve felt kind of on edge lately. I’ve been obsessing (to put it mildly) with politics and such accompanying folderol. And not even politics that concerns me – the American kind. Well, ok, American politics affects everybody whose legs touch the ground when they walk, ... http://www.liamdynes.com/blog/2008/09/cyclicism-vs-cynicism-the-battle-of-the-soft-cs/ Beth has already pimped Wall-E over on her cozy corner of internets, though as much as I loved it, I think I loved Presto more. Everyone who has seen Pixar's movies knows about their commitment to keeping the art of short films alive, prefacing each of their major releases with ... http://www.liamdynes.com/blog/2008/07/short-is-good-but-we-all-knew-that/ I may be assuming too much here, but I don't imagine a whole lot of you, my imaginary readers, are watching AMC's amazing Mad Men. You should be. Set in the misogynist and booze-soaked world of advertising in New York, 1960, it started last summer and ran its first season, and ... http://www.liamdynes.com/blog/2008/07/the-best-thing-youre-probably-not-watching/ I've written before about how I have been karmically deducing that the Old 97s are meant to be my favourite band. It's out of my hands. I can no longer be held responsible for my actions where they are concerned. Never, in a million years, would I presume to see my ... http://www.liamdynes.com/blog/2008/07/as-if-i-needed-more-proof/ So, even if there are forests that start on fire in the future, there has to be a better way of fighting them than calling on Dr. Wily's evil army. What exactly do we do if this thing starts to run amok? Where is the Quick Boomerang to slow ... http://www.liamdynes.com/blog/2008/05/were-all-going-to-die-screaming-and-in-very-small-pieces/ Though I'm sure I could disseminate this particular piece of information to the entirety of the people in my life who I know would care by turning my head and opening my mouth, I feel the need to spread it electronically, because it's pretty cool. Beyond Good And Evil has a ... http://www.liamdynes.com/blog/2008/05/very-exciting-to-very-few/ A few quick things: Work's been pretty ok. I totally won this group brainstorming, creative idea thingy, earning me $50 cool Scarborough Town Centre dollars. I came up with the best idea to try and pitch to one of our clients for a new, big, public push. We ... http://www.liamdynes.com/blog/2008/05/lately/