Journalism. Photography. Ridiculousness.
100 years ago my aunt had this cigarette rolling machine. I would roll cigarette's for her and my uncle. I was...8 or 9? Anyway, I would pull the tobacco from this can. Jam it into the machine. Slide a filtered paper cylinder on a protuberance. And, like an old school credit card lithographer, I would …
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There once was a little boy and he was good. He was happy and loved to smile. His smile made everyone else around him smile. Birds smiled. Trees smiled. Invisible cheese smiled. His smile lit up the world. Well, not the whole world. Gary the rock, he couldn't smile. You see, Gary was a rock, …
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My favourite pictures make me calm. I get to study them at my own pace. I can come back to them if interrupted. I can make my own decisions. I like pictures. The ones I my head I call ideas. The tangible ones I call art. A word is with a thousand pictures. A beam …
The birth of our child is more than just keeping the lovely little human alive, but keeping ourselves sane and compassionate for each other. In the back of my head I keep saying that this has been done before (parenthood) and that we will be stronger for it, and so far we are. We are …
At the suggestion of Andriko Lozowy and the Sailin' On vegan food truck at the Edmonton Folk Festival, I've decided to review the Tamarind Nectar beverage from Jumex. Lozowy suggested it was a hard sell which made me a bit hesitant, but as a man who once ate his weight in Big Turk bars, I've never been …
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Meanwhile...at the HMS Nonsuch...
This wolf in cop’s clothing is the real deal. Wolfcop, the story of a police officer with boozing tendencies and a lycanthropy problem, will be coming to an Edmonton Cineplex theatre on June 6. The product of film accelerator Cinecoup, the Regina film was recently shown at the Cannes film festival and has already had …
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