Author: Alec McClymont
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The Outback
2020 has been quite the year for all of us, but nothing makes me long for the past, or look forward to the future, more than travel with the Balkan Boyz. Over a year ago we were on our Outback road trip, and it’s sitting real well. The tradition of…
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Take me back
I love a good panorama shot. Thanks for the good times and perfect weather, Tassie!
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Southeast Asia, one more time…
Anyone who’s travelled, and made great friends doing so, will question whether those friendships are going to last once life gets back to normal. When those friends live on the other side of the world, frequent or quick visits are mostly off the table. So it was especially meaningful when…
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Spectrum: Summer Sessions
Vancouver Trance Family had another great night at MIA to close out the Summer, and thanks to Pat Canovich, I finally got a ‘really cool’ DJ photo! Fun times :)
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North America 2015
I’m not sure when it happened, but at some point in the recent past YouTube went and got itself a shockingly reasonable policy towards people using copyrighted music in personal videos. It used to automatically mute any offending audio, but now the system detects the songs used and determines if…
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STD: “Choose Your Pain”
Well that’s easy. It’s this show. I honestly don’t know if I have the energy to keep writing these reviews. I will say that despite doing nothing to address the awful characterization, premise, or visuals of the series, “Choose Your Pain” at least has some more interesting stuff happen. Unfortunately,…
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STD: “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry”
I’m starting to hate most aspects of this show. Last Sunday’s episode revealed that the USS Discovery is propelled by a ‘Spore drive’, a sort of instantaneous jump system fueled by the spores of magic mushrooms. Unfortunately the crew hasn’t yet figured out how to chart a course with this system,…
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STD: ‘Context Is For Kings’
Well, after the first proper episode of this new series, I still don’t like it, though things are getting more interesting. Most of my issues still revolve around tone and characterization, but there’s one other thing that bugged me after seeing the USS Discovery for the first time: that damn…
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