Yore Lore: Ken Saro-Wiwa
Standing up for a cause requires a belief in yourself and your ideals. It also requires guts. Speaking for myself, I find it difficult to…
Arts & Culture
The Springs of Springfield: Disco Stu
Like most minor characters on The Simpsons, Disco Stu began as a “one-off” character. This is common on the show. A character will make a…
The springs of Springfield: Database
You often see him in the background with the other brains of Springfield Elementary. His black curly hair and red glasses make him noticeable, but…
Sex and the Campus
What constitutes an “accessory” for a man has been extensively debated. Certainly watches, belts and cell phones have long been accessories, but the debate continues…
An ode to Budweiser
I despise the way he looks at me. I hate everything about him, from his head to his feet. If there is a divine being,…
Brain sex
Have you ever had brain sex? Yes, you probably have. Before you start trying to remember a time you left your drink unattended, read a…
Breaking down boundaries with beeswax
A towering wolf-like figure hangs just within the doors of the GoSA, attracting curious onlookers into the University of Manitoba gallery. The fur from a…
Hearts on plaid sleeves
They say we’re living in a post-ironic age, that irony died on 9-11 and post-modern cynicism just isn’t doing it for us anymore. For our…
Six so so so super sincere songs
The Smiths — “Please Please Please Let me Get What I Want” Three “pleases” and not even one “pretty” from Morrissey, a grown man whose…
CD Review : The Famines “Free Love is a Sales Technique”
Is there a crueler bait-and-switch than “reality”? All it does is savage the hopes and reveries we lay so desperately at its false altar. Indeed,…