Arts & Culture
Yankee Doodle
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The Doodle family was at a loss last week when they discovered that their loving father figure, Yankee, had passed on. Although not personally known to many, Yankee Doodle was famous in his...
The springs of Springfield: Superintendent Chalmers
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Superintendent Chalmers, the man who strikes fear in the heart of principal Seymour Skinner, is a thoroughly boring man. His no-nonsense attitude and stern demeanor do nothing to indicate that he has any sense...
The springs of Springfield: Gil Gunderson
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As I sit down to write this, nestled within the sundry walls of the Manitoban office, I’m receiving some flak from other writers about my choice of character. In this instance, the character is...
Doughboys
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Hello Doughboys
Where is your war today?
Vietnam’s nitroglycerin jungles weren’t enough,
Now that the jungles are stained red
The sand has to be painted
With new swords unspoiled
That are built to destroy the plow
To not be beaten
And tear...
Yore Lore:
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“Where Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells,
Courts her young navies, and the storm repels” — Erasmus Darwin
In the 1980s, North America was invaded. Mad Max tore up our screens. AC/DC tore up our...
Sex and the campus
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We’re all back to school for the first full week, and I can guarantee that with all this academic tension in the air we will all settle at some point. Settle for the class...
Making Art
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I have been suffocated, strangled
My words cut short and the flow
Ceased
My back is broken by black and bulging beasts,
Whose sadness seeps from strike to skin,
And their laughs lord over me,
Low, laying lying and...
