Shut Up, Canice
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Okay, so not quite fulfilling my New Year’s resolution to blog once a week
At least not here. But I did, for This Magazine last week, on how hockey is, in its modern incarnation, an elitist and un-Canadian sport. Saying as much is apparently is a kind of controversial thing to do while the nation is stoking its Olympics-fuelled sense of patriotic pride and the men’s Team Canada hockey…
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Quick thought about the new Love covers
Quick blog post this afternoon, as my CMS at work is down and thus have been handed a free extended lunch break. So, have you seen this? Well, this, 8x. Love Magazine (y’know, the one that put the outsized, in girth and personality, Beth Ditto on its cover for its first-ever issue) is putting eight…
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The Dragon Lady
Ah, Wikipedia. It always seems to be the night I’m scrambling to finish some other writing that I come across a subject that grips me, sending me down a rabbit hole of Googling and complete focus derailment. Which is how I came to learn about Anna May Wong, a second-generation Chinese-American actress with Taishan roots.…
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File this one under rejects: Geisy Arruda, Gender and Morality 101
The paper didn’t think this was publishable. I don’t often write satire, so I either laid it on too thick or not thick enough. I thought it was good, anyway. Women are just so reckless — college gals like Geisy Arruda should learn to cover up, knowing that her male counterparts transform from mild-mannered…
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It’s a mad, mad world
The following is an unabridged version of my column that ran in Metro on Aug. 20, 2009: There been times that I thought I couldn’t last for long But now I think I’m able to carry on It’s been a long, a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come The third…
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