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May 11, 2023Liked by Scott Tobias

Me think seeing company rise and then come undone far more interesting, in dramatic terms, than "hooray for us" success story like We Bought A Shoe.

On related note, me have long wondered if future generations will listen to Jay-Z and have foggiest idea what "out the country but the blueberry still connect" refer to.

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May 11, 2023Liked by Scott Tobias

At the risk of sounding like a dorky TV dilettante, I’ve seen about 20 episodes of Always Sunny and, at the risk of sounding like a horrible human, I can’t get enough of Howerton. Obviously I need to see this movie ASAP.

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May 11, 2023Liked by Scott Tobias

Mentioning Jay Baruchel and not talking about the glory that is Goon?! That's a paddling!

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May 12, 2023Liked by Scott Tobias

First 'Owning Mahowny' gets the retrospective treatment and then four stars for 'BlackBerry', what a glorious day for our country and indeed the world. Lifelong overexposure to the RIM story has made me especially resent Cineplex running the trailer incessantly for the past month -- The University of Waterloo is my alma mater, I've walked past the Lazaridis School of Business (of neighbouring Wilfred Laurier University) hundreds of times, played basketball at RIM Park, lived the ups and downs of the Jim Balsillie NHL saga in my adolescence and was subjected to story after story about Barack Obama's BlackBerry by local and national media. That said, Scott's excellent review and an obviously stellar cast have got my hopes up. "I said they're the best engineers in Canada" is already getting a lot of run among my cadre of Canadian engineers...

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