Dear Mr. McKee, I read your engaging personal story, commend you on your talents, and encourage you to continue in that vein if it pleases you. The only thing that confuses me and that I still don't have an answer for: do you classify that work as a "thought crime" or a "thought misdemeanor" for it to be published here? (End Joke.) //
Thanks for the story Craig! I haven't met any of the Kids but I did get to see Bruce McCullough doing standup at Yuk Yuk's in the mid 80s. I love the show. They're all funny but my favourites are Bruce and Dave. And Bruce does a skit about "the bass player"!
Thanks, Peter. I actually got to see Mark McKinney do a one-man show at the Centaur Theatre called Fully Committed in 2002. It was about an out-of-work actor who was in charge of booking reservations for an exclusive Manhattan restaurant. Hilarious. Bruce McCulloch was a terrific interview. I also always thought that Kevin was the most underrated of the five.
I love Mark's "Daryl" character (the guy with the ponytail). One of my favourite Kevin McDonald skits is where drug dealers try to sell him hash. He goes to inform some nearby police, they check it out, then they come back and arrest him for possession. The dealers planted dope on him!
yes you got a good story. I was in the York U film school during my fourth year based at Glendon. The prof was Terrence McCartney Filgate from the glory days of NFB. I hustled my way into making a CBLT (Toronto local CBC) news report called, "The Special Court at Christian Island
Wow, I didn't know you were a York film student, too. I never went to the Glendon campus, but it look very scenic in photos. The main York campus is in the not-so-scenic part of Toronto around Finch, Jane, and Steeles. The buildings were quite spread out. Not ideal for our climate.
Yes. I travelled to the main campus for my film courses. It was a cold and gigantic place. I did my MA at the big campus. I did year one in Arts and Science at the main campus. Being in classrooms with 500 people addressing the history of Western Civilization seemed kind of absurd to be. I was valuable, however, to help me see how much I didn't know. I went travelling for a year, ending up riding around on a motorcycle the Rwenzori Mountains situated on the border of Uganda and Congo. When I returned to University I enrolled in Glendon College on the Don River Valley. The Valley was quite wild with deer near the centre of Toronto. Then I did my Ph.D in history at the University of Toronto. My thesis was on the history of Indian policy in Upper Canada, the seed of Ontario.
Maxwell, I will be removing this comment shortly. It has nothing to do with the article I've posted and seems to be just another attempt to use my blog to push a theory that is unrelated to the topic I've written about. This time it's not even in the same area code. Please only post future comments if they are DIRECTLY related to teh subject of the post.
Dear Mr. McKee, You didn't read its first paragraph which was directly related to the article. To assist you in your endeavor, I deleted the comment but copied the first paragraph and posted it again... BECAUSE IT DOES RELATE TO THE ARTICLE.
BTW, want to know what is outside the area code? Your well-written but engaging article that you still haven't copped to whether it is a thought crime or a thought misdemeanor.
Dear Mr. McKee, I read your engaging personal story, commend you on your talents, and encourage you to continue in that vein if it pleases you. The only thing that confuses me and that I still don't have an answer for: do you classify that work as a "thought crime" or a "thought misdemeanor" for it to be published here? (End Joke.) //
Let's call it a "thought traffic ticket."
Dear Mr. McKee, Traffic tickets aren't crimes but infractions. So you posted a "thought infraction." //
Thanks for the story Craig! I haven't met any of the Kids but I did get to see Bruce McCullough doing standup at Yuk Yuk's in the mid 80s. I love the show. They're all funny but my favourites are Bruce and Dave. And Bruce does a skit about "the bass player"!
Thanks, Peter. I actually got to see Mark McKinney do a one-man show at the Centaur Theatre called Fully Committed in 2002. It was about an out-of-work actor who was in charge of booking reservations for an exclusive Manhattan restaurant. Hilarious. Bruce McCulloch was a terrific interview. I also always thought that Kevin was the most underrated of the five.
I love Mark's "Daryl" character (the guy with the ponytail). One of my favourite Kevin McDonald skits is where drug dealers try to sell him hash. He goes to inform some nearby police, they check it out, then they come back and arrest him for possession. The dealers planted dope on him!
Great story, Craig. I never before noticed your thespian roots.
Mostly I just got snacks for the thespians. Thanks, MIke!
yes you got a good story. I was in the York U film school during my fourth year based at Glendon. The prof was Terrence McCartney Filgate from the glory days of NFB. I hustled my way into making a CBLT (Toronto local CBC) news report called, "The Special Court at Christian Island
Wow, I didn't know you were a York film student, too. I never went to the Glendon campus, but it look very scenic in photos. The main York campus is in the not-so-scenic part of Toronto around Finch, Jane, and Steeles. The buildings were quite spread out. Not ideal for our climate.
Yes. I travelled to the main campus for my film courses. It was a cold and gigantic place. I did my MA at the big campus. I did year one in Arts and Science at the main campus. Being in classrooms with 500 people addressing the history of Western Civilization seemed kind of absurd to be. I was valuable, however, to help me see how much I didn't know. I went travelling for a year, ending up riding around on a motorcycle the Rwenzori Mountains situated on the border of Uganda and Congo. When I returned to University I enrolled in Glendon College on the Don River Valley. The Valley was quite wild with deer near the centre of Toronto. Then I did my Ph.D in history at the University of Toronto. My thesis was on the history of Indian policy in Upper Canada, the seed of Ontario.
Well, I've always enjoyed learning about history through your talks. I remember really liking the one you did at the Vancouver Hearings.
Maxwell, I will be removing this comment shortly. It has nothing to do with the article I've posted and seems to be just another attempt to use my blog to push a theory that is unrelated to the topic I've written about. This time it's not even in the same area code. Please only post future comments if they are DIRECTLY related to teh subject of the post.
Dear Mr. McKee, You didn't read its first paragraph which was directly related to the article. To assist you in your endeavor, I deleted the comment but copied the first paragraph and posted it again... BECAUSE IT DOES RELATE TO THE ARTICLE.
BTW, want to know what is outside the area code? Your well-written but engaging article that you still haven't copped to whether it is a thought crime or a thought misdemeanor.
Don't lecture me about being off-topic.
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