Regular column readers (poor souls) might recall my
concern over MAD Magazine’s future.
To recap: The night before the Fourth of July (classy),
DC Entertainment sent e-mails to
MAD’s writers and artists to insist that they stop...
As a grade-schooler in the early ‘80s, I frequently heard a country song with the following chorus spilling out of the CJFX AM Radio airwaves:
“Everybody wants to live to be 100, everybody’s looking for the key…We all want to...
It’s an old cliché: “A stranger’s just a friend you haven’t met.”
Well, it WAS an old cliché, anyway – before Cathy and I made our first trip to St. John’s.
It was already a special occasion because neither of us...
I find this column hard to write, because in doing so I have to say goodbye to a pair of familiar faces – one on a local scale, the other at a national level – who touched me, and...
Sometimes I won’t have anything
especially profound or enlightening to say in this column. (I can hear you now:
“Only sometimes?”)
Occasionally, I’ll have a week that was
so full of travels, adventures, and mid-summer memories that...
Number of House of Commons seats up for grabs in the
latest federal election: 338
Number of seats required for a majority: 170
Number of seats won by the Liberals at the...
Ninety-five per cent of me had been looking forward to this moment for months.
That’s a sharp contrast to the last time I caught Newfoundland’s Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers at Sydney’s Highland Arts Theatre, 19 months ago. I...
Cathy and I just hit a milestone: January marked five years since we decided to buy a house in Port Hawkesbury.
Our first five-and-a-half years of marriage saw us renting an apartment in the town, but we wanted to put...
By now, even if you’re not a sports fan, you’ve heard the tragic story of the Humboldt Broncos.
You’re probably aware of the April 6 accident in northern Saskatchewan that took 16 lives and injured another 13 passengers, many of...
“Good afternoon, everybody! Welcome to the Museum of Celebrity Relics. My name is Devyn, and I’ll be your tour guide this afternoon. Before we start, does anyone have any questions?”
“Yeah. Like, seriously, why are we wasting our time and...