Musical Memory : Punk rock boyscout
I was fifteen years old and quickly being molded by my overweight, slightly slow friend, Colin, to truly appreciate punk rock. Now, suburban Barrie, Ontario,…
Arts & Culture
Yore Lore: Romancing the spices
As we become increasingly health-conscious and as healthy life choices like exercising regularly, cutting down on sugar and salt are advocated, we turn to alternate…
The springs of Springfield: Janey
Janey is Lisa’s black friend often seen with Lisa at slumber parties or on the playground and she seems like a normal child. She likes…
Well isn’t that neat!
The clear liquor you sipped from your water bottle in high school is more versatile than you thought! Just Google “uses for vodka” and you…
Sunlight Streams
The rain falls from the darkened sky, separate her place. I see the scarecrow, the children’s secret fortresses. And all that was the cold, hard…
When & Wear
“A girl’s best friend” often “something assholes wear everyday” also known as “the working man’s leather.” These are common descriptions of our favourite a five…
Just not my day
So I wake up this morning quite normally. I get up, do my business, have a breakfast of leftover cold pizza, play some Internet games…
Experiments in a fertile reality
When we married, Joan and I agreed to an open marriage. After several years neither of us had acted on that agreement. It was our…
Hands off, Hollywood
The crowds filed out of the matinee amidst over-the-top pronouncements like, “I will never look forward to anything ever again,” and, “I feel like I…
He came. He saw. He gaffed.
Sir Salman Rushdie, the only writer thrice crowned Booker winner , paid Winnipeg a little visit on Oct. 22. The controversial British writer was here…