Dr. Know
OK folks, we’re doing the eighth dimension today — the lesson will be much the same as the last few; the words I’ll say will…
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Fried Brains and Sam
Poof. Vanished. It used to amaze me. Poof. Vanished. It used to excite me — the whole magic of the universe — how there are…
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…
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…
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…
The globalization of hip hop
“It’s a hip hop world and you are living in it,” writes pop culture critic Dalton Higgins in his newly released book, aptly titled Hip…
Chameleon Walls and Conceptual Art
Four walls in the Fitzgerald building have been changing colour. Outside of Gallery One One One the rotunda area was at one point blue, transforming…
Dr. Know and the sixth dimension
I’m not sure why I continue to write these every week. I’m almost positive that I lost most of you after our diatribe went onto…
This day so hallowed
“Brown leafed vertigo where skeletal life is known — I remember Halloween. This day anything goes, dead bodies hang from poles — I remember Halloween.”…
Your guide for Halloween ’09
The hectic pace of university life produces some funny consequences. One that immediately springs to mind is students’ shocking ability to lose track of time….