Dreaming of a white Christmas

Yeah, that's me on the 401, driving the car loaded with 40 kinds of footware just in case it snows -- or it doesn't. Headed to Montreal for two weeks to chill --hah-hah, get it? -- with friends and family.

It is so strange to have the sun beating down on me as I type this. It feels warm. It feels like spring. It feels wrong.

One day, Irving Berlin's I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas will have more resonance than it ever did. It's sad enough now. Soon it will be devastating.

But enough holiday blues! Have a merry, merry.

Tip of the toque to Allen Sorenson.

UPDATE: Donald in the comments points out that, thanks to the Star's spiffy new website redesign, the link to my columns is now broken. Not all of them have been loaded yet. That's what you get for being a Z I guess.

Comments

[Jiminy C]

The Zerb is back.
Great column on Murdoch's apparent Road to Damascus encounter!
SO-O - when will this refreshed perception and passion trickle down to the BLOG?

[handsignals4theblind]

Just boycott it next year-It's as easy as the National Post's supercillious attitude to the stories about poverty---- in the Toronto STAR------ignore,deny, andcondescend with an ivory towered parochial view and voila--the issue goes away and does not taint the Post's narrow view of the society.

I suspect ignoring Xmas would be bad for the economy and good for the soul.

[Simon]

Zerb's own rss feed:

http://www.panix.com/~simonp/rss/torstar/5.rss

[Bill Lee]

According to the January 31
Frank magazine, the Azerbic
blog is going to be left to wither.

Not only were the 'fights' becoming
tedious to moderate on the part of
Madame Z, the odder and paid right wing
were filling up the Star's Ombudspwerson
mailbox with various complaints.

More trouble than it's worth for
everyone.

Bye-bye blog (if allowing comments, which
sometimes were useful. John Naughton's blob
has comments under RSS
Linkname: Comments (RSS)
URL: feed:[102]http://memex.naughtons.org/comments/feed/

[Jiminy C]

Heavens Bill - those right wing critics are paid?
And all this time I thought Zerb was a windmill and they collectively were demented loonies merely tilting at her because she stood there waving her arms looking vaguely like a threat to oil and gas....
We live we learn

[Marilyn Anderson]

Re the posting by Bill Lee: Does he really put that much stock in what Frank magazine says? I don't. I'll wait for Antonia to tell us what is going on.

[Randy]

Dear Marilyn,

Keep waiting. This blog is dead.

[Bill Lee]

What you are missing by going straight to the Blog.

Recent columns have been:

February 13, 2007 4:30 AM -
[37]Media caught up in the spin cycle
February 09, 2007 4:30 AM -
[38]Real news loses to fluff again
February 06, 2007 4:30 AM -
[39]TV fund money really belongs to us
February 02, 2007 4:30 AM -
[40]Happy talk at CBC Survivor
January 30, 2007 4:30 AM -
[41]Super Bowl drama of our own
January 27, 2007 4:30 AM -
[42]Funding renewed despite standoff
January 26, 2007 4:30 AM -
[43]Where is our media going?
January 23, 2007 4:30 AM -
[44]Shaw could kill TV fund
January 18, 2007 4:30 AM -
[45]What you can restrict: children
January 13, 2007 4:30 AM -
[46]A kinder, gentler Murdoch?
January 12, 2007 4:30 AM -
[47]Alliance deal a test of control
January 11, 2007 4:30 AM -
[48]'Mosque' finds an audience
December 15, 2006 4:30 AM -

[Jiminy C]

Maybe Madame would consider a new home with the Macleans lot - they need opinion from the distaff side and from the left wing of the spectrum

[Bill Lee]

All past tense, sadly
"[staff_zerbisias_antonia_200.JPG] Antonia Zerbisias, The Star's media columnist, blogged about the journalists, the conglomerates, the hacks and the bloggers who cover events and disseminate opinion - their failures, their successes and their biases. [67]Read the archive of her blog...

on current list-of-blogs page
http://thestar.blogs.com/

[stephen.reeves]

"[staff_zerbisias_antonia_200.JPG] Antonia Zerbisias, The Star's media columnist, blogged about the journalists, the conglomerates, the hacks and the bloggers who cover events and disseminate opinion - their failures, their successes and their biases. [67]Read the archive of her blog."

They forgot to mention the 'Middle East".

[Bill Lee]

Antonia quits the media critic business
by DavidAkin on Mon 11 Jun 2007 02:37 PM EDT | Permanent Link | Cosmos

The Toronto Star's Antonia Zerbisias tells her Facebook friends that she's packing it in as media critic for the Star.
No, your cable did not crap out. That was the ending of The Sopranos.
And this is the end of me as media columnist for The Toronto Star. I am moving on Boys and Girls, still at 1 Yonge, but in another capacity.
It's a job I have repeatedly lobbied for since 2003 -- and, thanks to our recent redesign and related factors, I finally got it!
So no conspiracy theories please.
Stay tuned for details ...
Good luck, Antonia, with that new assignment!

[Hillary]

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