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Posted on 02/07/2005 8:22:50 AM PST by UpHereEh
A non-substantive piece about a non-substantive blowhard.
just another episode of MSM soap opera...
Hey..eh..cmon eh 'ees a hoser!
y'know 'e can take off eh!!
EH??umm err well hey ok eh!
Ehh..whadya think eh?
8-)
Here is a Very interesting commentary on Mr Barclay from a book review on one of his works. Apparently he is known as a humorist. I never heard of him during the twenty years that I lived in Canada. He must be an Ontario phenom. See the comment on Dave Barry. [I don't want to add any html to this post.]
^^^^^^
Last Resort: A Memoir
by Linwood Barclay
Published by McClelland & Stewart
279 pages, 2000
ISBN: 0771010788
Reviewed by Tom Nolan
Many Canadian newspaper readers know Linwood Barclay as the byline atop a popular column in the Toronto Star, wherein the Ontario writer waxes hilarious three times a week on the absurdities of modern life, rather like a thinking man's Dave Barry.
A growing number of book readers also know Linwood Barclay as the author of three previous volumes, whose titles hint that they're propelled by the same sort of urgent humor that often causes his column's followers to laugh out loud in public: Father Knows Zilch, This House Is Nuts! and Mike Harris Made Me Eat My Dog.
But Barclay's lovely fourth book is something else again. While Last Resort: A Memoir offers plenty of earthy humor, it's also a unique coming-of-age story told with admirable candor and quiet grace.
shade of blue and then green. The lake and the far shore."
---snip---
This way and that, Linwood Barclay reaches manhood: marrying, having children of his own and coming full circle emotionally in a way that's beautifully shown at the end of this wonderful memoir. Barclay's straightforward and unadorned prose might be mistaken for the merely anecdotal; but it allows him to re-create long-ago moments with an immediacy that's palpable.
Tom Nolan is a contributing editor of January Magazine and the author of Ross Macdonald: A Biography (Scribner).
0'Reilly and a couple of Canadian journalists have been going at each other for awhile.
Actually the scientists got it wrong. The creature with the thinnest skin is obviously Linwood Barclay!
Yeah that spat was with Heather Mallick at the Globe and Mail - an even farther left hag rag, if that's possible. She's was in tears along with Al Franken in the CBC documentary claiming she was in fear for her life from all the death threats she was getting. It was worth getting the real buttery popcorn for.
Blah blah, blah blah blah, blah, blah blah-blah-blah!
WEAK!
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I've come to believe that it is not mainstream Canadians that are peeved off at O'Reilly. I think it is the liberal left Media such as the Toronto Star, the CBC, and others.
Yep, that's it, he's a threat to the left-wing monopoly of the airwaves.
Who has a thinner skin, O'Reilly or the French-CDN's who were outraged at Triumph the insult puppet?
Good question!
Congrats Heather..
you are the Triumph the Insult Dog of Canadian journalism. As an American, I resent reading that I am a fat, ignorant f**k in my morning newspaper. Especially when written by a bubble brain such as yourself. I think I am losing my cool. Maybe I will have to take this up with my MP as it sounds alot like hate speech to me. And where do you get off using that kind of language with readers, who probably include decent people who resent being treated with such low regard. I must admit I get a wonderful warm fuzzy feeling when I picture you going insane (not a long trip) on the night of the American presidential election 2004, when Mr Bush is returned to office for four more years with a Republican house and senate. Sincerely,
That's a keeper!
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