Dear Elouise,Greetings from the prairies! I know it has only been a couple of weeks since you left, but I really wanted to write. How are you? How’s life back in Toronto? I’m so glad you had a good time visiting here over Christmas. I’m happy to have a nice friend like you. There was… Continue reading The purloined letter
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Five love stories for Valentine’s Day
1. Love Your GoalsShannon tensed again as she threw up into the sink. Someone was going to come in here and think she was bulimic, she thought. But Shannon had nothing in common with those underweight, power-dressing, popular scenester types that had slipped ahead of her and…More throwing up. The competition had ended two weeks… Continue reading Five love stories for Valentine’s Day
Columnist clubbed to death
Carleton University in Ottawa welcomes their frosh students to campus life with a week-long party which includes wearing funny, spray-painted t-shirts, ridiculous games, and lots of drinking. Yes, drinking-focused events-the lowest common denominator kind that despite apprehensions, make you begin to feel connected and accepted into an intimidating new group. Hey, it’s no U of… Continue reading Columnist clubbed to death
It’s not my fault
You first. No, I insist. After you. Go ahead. I’ll go next.Carry on. Lead the way. I’m right behind you. Me and everyone else.One of the most popular gifts one can give after the holiday season is blame. Blame for why you’re not carrying out (or in some cases even bothering to put together) a… Continue reading It’s not my fault
The times, they aren’t a-changin’
When the dust finally settles, 1998 will go largely unnoticed in the history books. The turn of the new millennium and its inflated significance will be what matters. Where were you when we hit the year 2000? It will be the question that arises at parties when everyone gets nostalgic after knocking back a few… Continue reading The times, they aren’t a-changin’
Angst: not just for teens anymore
So one night over the summer I was loitering distractedly in a back alley somewhere in downtown Vancouver (believe it or not, I was at work), and I noticed a bright-looking piece of paper on the ground. Looking closer I saw it was a Popsicle wrapper. I was strangely drawn to the thing-in fact, I… Continue reading Angst: not just for teens anymore
Kangaroo court dreaming
Boy, did I ever have the weirdest dream the other night. It was a Monday, and I must have fallen asleep in front of the TV, just after 11 p.m. Let me try and explain it to you as best as I can remember… The dream starts with me sitting in a courtroom. Attorneys are… Continue reading Kangaroo court dreaming
Seagulls, beavers and mice, oh my!
It’s a lazy Sunday evening in November, and I’m at home, sprawled on my couch. My gaze floats across the living room. It fondly rests on my videotaped Dawson’s Creek episodes, then lingers on my official Hanson calendar, then finally upon my poster of Robert Fulghum’s All I Really Need To Know I Learned In… Continue reading Seagulls, beavers and mice, oh my!
Only the milk is bad
Harry Stamper and A.J. Frost are my heroes, ’cause boy do Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck make these Armageddon characters likeable. Stamper and Frost are cool because they overcome the odds and successfully fly into space to divert that big-ass doomsday asteroid and save the planet. The story is a great example of the human… Continue reading Only the milk is bad
Get that Hottie
Lady friends, please put down those YM, Seventeen and Cosmo mags andallow me to give you some valuable boy-snagging advice for the coming months.Bisexuality in females is the cool new fashion trend!It has come to my attention that today’s young women are desperatelyand unhappily short of snares, tricks and other wiles for catching the masculineobjects… Continue reading Get that Hottie