I always thought of Vinyl Cafe as a Canadian analogue to Prairie Home Companion, and the Dave and Morley stories as Lake Wobegon set in residential Toronto.
I was of two minds about Vinyl Cafe. Here's my FB post on it, if anyone cares to hear an opinion that wasn't as effusive. -- So. Stuart McLean. I really disliked the spoken word version of Vinyl Cafe, the twee folksiness of his voice and the pre-Dave and Morley story about that down home coffee shop in Kamiscasing or that down home blueberry pie joint on Gabriola Island. But I really did enjoy the Dave and Morley stories as presented on the page. As an Edmontonian preparing to move to the centre of the universe many years ago, those stories gave me a grounding in Toronto life more than any issue of Toronto Life. Later, my sister and I exchanged text based where we envisioned Dave getting into Stephanie's stash of shrooms and screaming down at the Turlingtons from the roof, written in McLean's meandering voice. I actually registered @edgyVinylCafe to publicize those alternate takes but never got around to it. And now, because I never tweeted out, and because cancer sucks, and because Canada always needs more of its own content and characters, I'm sad that he's gone. Farewell and I hope you can find a good down home cafe where the scones are big, the coffee is cheap and plentiful, and there's a little stage for a folk duo on Fridays. > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
