Randy McDonaldArthur. 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…Jul 21, 20191Jul 21, 20191
Randy McDonaldSome 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…Apr 30, 2019Apr 30, 2019
Randy McDonaldOn 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…Jan 6, 2019Jan 6, 2019
Randy McDonaldThoughts on debunking and writing and educating and creatingThe other week, someone on Facebook shared an infographic cartoon that really grabbed me.Nov 20, 2018Nov 20, 2018
Randy McDonaldWhat 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…Oct 29, 2018Oct 29, 2018
Randy McDonald[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…Aug 28, 2018Aug 28, 2018
Randy McDonaldNineteen 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…Jul 25, 2018Jul 25, 2018
Randy McDonaldOn 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…Jun 19, 2018Jun 19, 2018
Randy McDonaldOn 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…Jun 11, 2018Jun 11, 2018
Randy McDonaldOn 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…Feb 10, 2018Feb 10, 2018