Bad Metaphor

We’re back with a podcast where John plays a synthesizer emulator and talks with Chris about writing a novel for National Novel Writing Month. You can follow John’s progress on the novel A Rock, a Skip, a Clock, and a Pirate on his NaNoWriMo page. This marks a lighter approach to the podcast with music [...]

Bad Metaphor is back and we're talking about procrastination in episode 10.

In August of 2006 John and I travelled up to Sackville, New Brunswick to talk with singer / songwriter Julie Doiron. In part B Julie talks about making the new Shotgun and Jaybird album, the Sappy Records Music Festival, and how you can get her music.

In August of 2006 John and I travelled up to Sackville, New Brunswick to talk with singer / songwriter Julie Doiron. In part A Julie talks about her inspiration, writing songs and making albums. We finish the first part with the song "Snow Falls in November" from Julie's album, "Goodnight Nobody".

We finally went camping and hiking in Fundy National Park and had some fun, but a storm cut our stay short. Bad Metaphor #8 – Camping was recorded on location in New Brunswick in Fundy National Park and just outside of Fredericton in Staples Settlement while we visited John’s grandparents on my side. We camped [...]

It's Summer and we're on vacation. For our first adventure we went to the Discovery Centre in Halifax. John starts things off by reciting Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll (with music by James Shuttleworth), then we talk about the Discovery Centre and other things you can do on vacation.

We take things on the road in episode 6 of Bad Metaphor and we talk about work at the Nova Scotia Community College Halifax Downtown Site. Chris and John walk around the areas where Screen Arts is taught. We go in the office, the studio and the edit suites and look at the technology used [...]

In the fifth Bad Metaphor podcast the topic is technology. John and Chris talk about old technology, modern technology and future technology as they wander around the back yard in Wolfville.

In the fourth episode John and Chris talk about Sunday, March Break as well as the film Walking on a Sea of Glass, giant robotic bugs, and John plays the piano. Bad Metaphor Episode 4: Sunday (13 minutes, 37 seconds)