View from the Edge

Its been almost a year now since I jumped back onto the comedy stage again, and I figured its time to start moving forward in a more coherent way.  To start, I’ve taken some time to go back through my records and make a note of most of the shows …

A staple for serious TV viewers in the US, the TiVo box revolutionized the way people watch TV. At least, thats what the marketing says. The reality is that it’s closer to nifty toy than a revolutionary device, but it does afford a level of control over the television experience that was previously very difficult to achieve …

The title words for this post have taken on a stark new meaning in recent times in Canada. I’ve been trying to write about the Robert Dziekanski incident from Vancouver International Airport in October for a week or so now …

… so no silly joke about Charles Dickens this time around. Last night was another session of Comedy Monday Night down at Dickens Pub, and it was a great time. There was a very large crowd turn-out for a Monday night, and an equally large turn-out of comics

I’ve been a space geek ever since I was an 8 year old kid, and spent a summer inside glued to the TV watching the Apollo-Soyuz linkup in in July 1975. I’m a little too young to have watched any of the moon landings …

This past weekend, I had an opportunity I don’t get much these days … the chance to spend an evening listening to comedy completely as an audience member. For the past year, almost every time I’ve been around comedy, I’ve been “working” in some sense or another, either preparing to go up, or talking about material or bookings …

In 1915, Lt Col John McCrae was a field surgeon working with the Canadian Artillery at the Battle of Ypres in Belgium. His field hospital was located in the region of Belgium colloquially known as Flanders

The Road Not Taken, written by Robert Frost in 1915, has always been one of my favorite pieces of poetry. I think I first read it in the 11th grade, around age 15 or 16, and ever since the words have resonated through me. I’ve always seen it as a wonderfully elegant analogy for memory and time …

One of my first posts on View from the Edge was a collection of posts I’d made elsewhere on the Mayan calender. It actually ended up being two posts (here and here), but its always been a fairly disjointed collection of thoughts. I’ve wanted to …

I’ve added a new post over at Geeks are Sexy on blogging. Check it out … here’s an excerpt …
By Lyle Bateman
Contributing Writer, [GAS]

From a perspective of some six centuries later, it’s pretty easy to see the revolution inherent in …