D. J. Waletzky is a writer, filmmaker and technologist. He keeps the MediaChannel website running and full of timely media content. He also blogs at Casual Asides, which was nominated for a Koufax Award for Best Writing in 2005.

Although he has a Grammy nomination, sold out appearances, and once opened for Pete Seeger before 25,000 people in Columbus Circle, he is neither famous nor a real musician. Waletzky’s name sometimes winds up in newspaper profiles such as the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Montreal Gazette, the Montreal Mirror, or France’s L’Humanité, although it will usually be misspelled. You may recognize him from his many television appearances, from the A&E Biography of Bill Gates to America’s Most Wanted to C-SPAN. You may have seen him or some of his work on stage at a downtown New York nightspot such as the Knitting Factory or Tonic. Waletzky is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, where, in the course of a political science and philosophy degree, he studied Afghanistan in 2000 and Iraq in the spring of 2001 (just ahead of the Bush invasion curve). Waletzky was the editor-in-chief of McGill’s humour magazine, the Red Herring, for three years. A Brooklyn native, he has been to Finland twice. He is also a contributing editor at Heeb Magazine, for whom he has interviewed people like Kinky Friedman and Matisyahu.

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