Ironically, one of the charities supported by that auction is called Teach a Man to Fish.

The Doctor Who blog can be viewed using a beautiful little tool called Readability, which converts the page to a different layout. It works on most sites.

I had ideas about working in media when I left university, until I found out about internships. With a load of Canada Student Loans (fortunately less than most people) and rent & bills to pay, it wasn't an option for me.

Then I moved to the UK, where they expect you to sign on during your internship but my immigration status didn't allow me to do that. Later I found out there's an unspoken agreement that they're for people of a certain background & it's unlikely I'd have got a look-in.

Having said that, if you want it bad enough you can do it - a friend managed to get welfare money out of the Canadian gov't (not an easy thing to do) and slept on someone's sofa whilst he did one and has worked in the Canadian music industry ever since.

Me, I decided that any industry that doesn't believe in paying people for their work can bite me. At least print journalism pays you peanuts (or did, back in my day).

I found it a lot more blatant in the UK, though - in Canada we have to uphold the myth of being a classless meritocracy.

And if you've never lived in Toronto, where the WASPS still think they are the majority and own the place, you might even be able to get through life thinking that's true.

There's an even better demolition of that comedian here.

I enjoyed the case for the Lodger.

However, I have seen a worse comedian, somewhere at the outer fringes of my memory. A rare instance of my mind saving me from myself.

However, i'd pay good money to watch him perform in Mogadishu. Hell, I'd pay for HD 3D for that.
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