Post-Modernism for Victorians

Reflections on a lecture at the library titled “The Age of Pretence: Reflections on Post-Modernism”.

A brief Saturday morning rant

There they were,with their wicker baskets and re-usable grocery bags made from recycled pop bottles, carrying their groceries down the street. To their cars.

Ralph’s Bench

Edward reflects on the passing of life, lives and benches at Beaver Lake in Stanley Park.

Kill Your Television

The Tudors provides one more compelling reason to throw out the television

On Liberty, and Memory

The olympics may be a very desirable event to many, but if we can’t hold an olympics, or any other event, without depriving citizens of their rights to free speech and free assembly, we have no business holding it at all.

The Place of Porn

When I first took note of the words at the top of the Jun 4 edition of Xtra West that read “His First Huge Cock,” I thought it had something to do with the full page image of Laurier LaPierre that appeared below it.

I’ll give ‘em a little stimulus

More excruciatingly painful interactions with the institutions of commerce, now lining up en masse like suckling pigs to beg us for the money to keep them in a position to exploit us further.

Dziekanski inquiry: The stapler defense

Crown prosecutor: Mounties will not face criminal charges, citing the stapler in saying the use of force was justified.

Is there a future for CanWest?

Going not-for-profit may be a way to save us from a shortage of fishwrap.

Dame Edna, MP

Lorne Mayencourt won’t get my vote because he’s a dirty rotten spammer.

Is there a ‘manslaughter’ badge?

Facing the unrelenting assault of door-to-door privacy invaders.

Why I Am an Optimist

Aren’t self-described optimists being a little pessimistic when they criticise my kind of optimism?

Wayne Newton General Hospital?

My annual disparaging review of St. Paul’s festive display. Nothing says ‘Jesus’ like aluminum scaffolding.

Ah! Suburbia!

Yet another potential road-rage incident constructively redirected to a safe, textual outburst.