The Most Important Canadian Election: An Existential Crisis Fascists and other enemies of democracy, without and within, optimized the manipulation reality-twisting capabilities of the internet like the Nazis used mass media when it was new, and people didn’t know any better. Weakness is sold as strength, bullying as masculinity, cowardice as courage, conformity as unity, …
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In memory of my mum, Peggy Frizzell, who passed on this day, August 20th, in 2018. Writing from the heart is tricky when the source is broken. Leonard Cohen said that’s how the light gets in. People treat sorrow like a plague rather than a river that runs through life, which we all must drink …
“Lavender’is a hallucinatory study of the hidden horrors of the mind, a look at false memories and how they can be used as a shield from madness. It follows a well-trodden path—previously explored in mind movies like Rosemary’s Baby and The Shining . . .” — Richard Crouse, CTV. “Trippy new psychological thriller” — Victoria Ahearn, The Canadian Press Read Full …
Oreo Frizzell was born in Prince Edward County, in 2007, on a farm just outside Picton, Ontario. At six weeks old he moved to Cressy, Prince Edward County, after being picked up, early in the morning, by his newly adopted brother Colin, and his nephews Ryan and Mitchell. He was Christened, Oreo, by his niece, …
Spoken word poetry. Photography and editing by Louis Thomas. Written and performed by Colin Frizzell.
Note from writer, Colin Frizzell In 2017 a photographer friend of mine sent me a link to a collection of Halloween short films. They gave me an idea. That weekend I was at a party with Louis and another friend, actor Robert Fulton, and I asked them if they’d be interested in seeing if, just …
“Chill was the first book I ever had published. The main thing I remember about writing it was reliving all the anxiety and insecurities of high school. They never truly go away.” Colin Frizzell CHILL Best Quick Reads: American Library Association Chill is a Canadain Best Seller and is currently in its six printing. Grade 7 …
“Currently out of print, but looking for a new home, ‘Just J’ was the first book I wrote and the second one published. It was written shortly after I lost my father to cancer. Through J, I was able to express some of the pain, anger and confusion I was feeling in a much more …
Five Star rating on Amazon.com! Letter From the Editor It was in the year 1963, in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada, in August, when my mom (Peggy) met my dad (Art). They fell in love and got engaged four days later. But Peggy was only visiting, with her Mom (Lily), from Ireland, and she had to …
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Lavender, written by Colin Frizzell and Ed Gass-Donnelly, directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly, produced by South Creek Pictures and 3 Legged Dog Films, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2016. “When a photographer (Abbie Cornish) in a failing marriage suffers severe memory loss after a traumatic accident, strange clues among her photos suggest she may be responsible for the deaths …