The Unknown Studio

You probably don’t know this about me, but I love baking. I used to do it a lot when I was living at my parents’ place. Took an interest in it in junior high school, actually. And back then, I felt like such a knob asking my mum if she could show me how to bake.

“You just follow the recipe,” she said, likely looking at me like I’d just asked the dumbest question on earth.

“But what the hell is Demerara sugar?” I probably asked.

“It’s just sugar!”

In spite of my stupidity, my desire to eat cookies and other sweet confections would force my mother into the kitchen to watch over me and ensure I knew what I was doing. Eventually, we established a pattern, once I was able to bake on my own without completely screwing up: I would bake, and she would follow me around the kitchen cleaning up after me. I was in her domain, and she needed things to be just so. My mum’s still like this. She kicks up a fuss at Christmas about having to do all this cooking, but when you offer to help her, she basically tells you to fuck off and stay out of her kitchen. Read the rest of this entry »

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Scott and I try and make a conscious effort to be pillars of the community. Sometimes that means producing a show with a lot of beeped out expletives, sometimes it means posting content to our website that we hope our readers find humorous…

And sometimes it means helping out organizations in Edmonton. When the Christmas Bureau invited us to their media launch back in November, we were surprised. We didn’t think we’d made that much of a splash in Edmonton. Looking at our analytics and show download info, however, tells us that we’re doing something. Something good. Read the rest of this entry »

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Since launching the Unknown Studio last June with Scott, we’ve both variously been trying to find ways to promote the show. Some of that has meant appearing on other podcasts… Or, one other podcast, anyhow. Our third episode featured a good friend, Ramin Ostad, and on that episode we discussed storytelling using video games as a medium. Since that episode, I’ve been trying to sync my schedule with Ramin’s, who also co-host a show called UserCreatedContent, a great little podcast dedicated to all things video-gaming in Edmonton. Read the rest of this entry »

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I’m not a huge believer in ghosts. I definitely fascinated by the possibility of their existence, and I love hearing people’s ghost stories — particularly when they’re first-hand — but I’m one of those people who has to see it to believe it. I lack faith, even in Class V Free Roaming Vapors. I’m like the crotchety, nay-saying geezer who scoff and waves dismissively at such nonsense. Read the rest of this entry »

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You know when people say things like, “It’s been one of those days,” and all you can think is that they’re being really vague and you wish they’d use more precise language, and oh my gods!, they’re wearing the exact same scarf as you, how dare they… but you still get it somehow?

Well.

It’s been one of those months. Read the rest of this entry »

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Last week, we had a few really wonderful evenings (and mornings!) of dense ice fog down in the river valley. At no time was this more apparent than on Tuesday night, when my roommates and I waded through the mist with two idiot dogs. Read the rest of this entry »

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