Joseph Planta
@joeplanta.bsky.social
I’m in my twenty-second year interviewing people at http://www.TheCommentary.ca. I also collect buttons, busts, and books.
I put the BCTV pin on my coat today, or as I like to call it the Order of BCTV button.
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I put the BCTV pin on my coat today, or as I like to call it the Order of BCTV button.
Why didn’t any of you people tell me that Apple Podcasts transcribes podcasts?? It does a far better job than when I had to plug the audio into Word recently. But this from a recent interview with Tom Wayman made me laugh out loud at nearly 4am:
August 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Why didn’t any of you people tell me that Apple Podcasts transcribes podcasts?? It does a far better job than when I had to plug the audio into Word recently. But this from a recent interview with Tom Wayman made me laugh out loud at nearly 4am:
I'm trying to figure out where this building Webster is standing outside of in 1982. The building houses the Vancouver-New Westminster Newspaper Guild, Local 115, as well as a Datafile Ltd. and Kitsilano Workshop. Does anybody know where this was?
August 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I'm trying to figure out where this building Webster is standing outside of in 1982. The building houses the Vancouver-New Westminster Newspaper Guild, Local 115, as well as a Datafile Ltd. and Kitsilano Workshop. Does anybody know where this was?
I needed some paper at work and found this, with the old Woodward’s price tag still on it.
July 31, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I needed some paper at work and found this, with the old Woodward’s price tag still on it.
The co-worker brought over his late father’s old drivers licence and a sales contract from Plimley Automotive at 2200 West 4th.
July 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
The co-worker brought over his late father’s old drivers licence and a sales contract from Plimley Automotive at 2200 West 4th.
William Lyon Mackenzie King died seventy-five years ago today. I have this portrait of King in my office at home. I don’t have the wall space to put it up though.
July 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
William Lyon Mackenzie King died seventy-five years ago today. I have this portrait of King in my office at home. I don’t have the wall space to put it up though.
@bcmikemcd.bsky.social Mike, are these John Pozer buttons from a nomination campaign, provincially? Or are they from the federal election?
July 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
@bcmikemcd.bsky.social Mike, are these John Pozer buttons from a nomination campaign, provincially? Or are they from the federal election?
In my tidying at home, I found this printout of a 2014 Andrew Cohen column that appeared in the Victoria Times-Colonist. He'd just published a new book and was lamenting the declining number of outlets an author could talk about one's book, as well as bookstores.
July 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
In my tidying at home, I found this printout of a 2014 Andrew Cohen column that appeared in the Victoria Times-Colonist. He'd just published a new book and was lamenting the declining number of outlets an author could talk about one's book, as well as bookstores.
I never really watched much of Gilligan’s Island but at a garage sale today, Canada Day, I saw all three seasons on DVD sealed. They were only $5 each so I got them. Are they worth watching?
July 2, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I never really watched much of Gilligan’s Island but at a garage sale today, Canada Day, I saw all three seasons on DVD sealed. They were only $5 each so I got them. Are they worth watching?
The co-worker brought in an old A&B Sound invoice from 1966
June 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The co-worker brought in an old A&B Sound invoice from 1966
Another book this season that I liked is the latest Raincoast Chronicles by Alan Haig-Brown, m̓am̓aɫa Goes Fishing. There are great stories in here & you see Alan in his formative years & what fishing was like in the ‘60s. It was also great to talk to Alan again; it’s been 15 years.
May 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Another book this season that I liked is the latest Raincoast Chronicles by Alan Haig-Brown, m̓am̓aɫa Goes Fishing. There are great stories in here & you see Alan in his formative years & what fishing was like in the ‘60s. It was also great to talk to Alan again; it’s been 15 years.
I’ve been reading the poetry of Tom Wayman and Nick Thran this week.
April 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
I’ve been reading the poetry of Tom Wayman and Nick Thran this week.
I thought @lesliehurtig.bsky.social’s piece was great, and not just because she included a photo of buttons. Here’s my Mel Hurtig button
March 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I thought @lesliehurtig.bsky.social’s piece was great, and not just because she included a photo of buttons. Here’s my Mel Hurtig button
Weekend reading: the latest from Omar El Akkad
March 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Weekend reading: the latest from Omar El Akkad
The Pat Burns Story
February 19, 2025 at 5:33 AM
The Pat Burns Story
In light of CKNW moving from 980 to 730 AM on the radio dial, I found this newspaper clipping in a box of Red Robinson’s of an ad when the station was at 1320. This would have been prior to 1958.
February 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
In light of CKNW moving from 980 to 730 AM on the radio dial, I found this newspaper clipping in a box of Red Robinson’s of an ad when the station was at 1320. This would have been prior to 1958.
I went to visit Alex Waterhouse-Hayward this afternoon. We talked and caught up on all things past and present. And he asked to take my photograph. So, I asked if I could take his and Niño‘s.
January 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I went to visit Alex Waterhouse-Hayward this afternoon. We talked and caught up on all things past and present. And he asked to take my photograph. So, I asked if I could take his and Niño‘s.
I had to move two full book shelves over two inches, which involved emptying them out. They were pretty much every fiction book I own, so I put together the novels of a similar theme, set mostly in Canada. There’s a lot here if you’re a political junkie but not a wide fiction reader.
December 22, 2024 at 11:33 AM
I had to move two full book shelves over two inches, which involved emptying them out. They were pretty much every fiction book I own, so I put together the novels of a similar theme, set mostly in Canada. There’s a lot here if you’re a political junkie but not a wide fiction reader.
My finest achievement in 2024.
December 6, 2024 at 4:12 AM
My finest achievement in 2024.
They put up this Santa snowflake at the office and all I can see is the Order of Canada insignia.
November 30, 2024 at 6:47 AM
They put up this Santa snowflake at the office and all I can see is the Order of Canada insignia.
I’d like to make this my bio:
November 29, 2024 at 4:40 AM
I’d like to make this my bio:
