Relationships, right, people? I mean, what more is there to say? So onerous are relationships that the popular social network Facebook includes “it’s complicated” among users relationships statuses. Fucked up, I know. OK, so we all know relationships are complicated, and we’re at least a little bit familiar with the everyday, run-of-the-mill complications. However, the [...]
Bed knobs and… well, brushes
This is the third in a short series of posts about my family’s history, living in Canada as landed immigrants in the 1950s and 60s. You can read the second tale here. This particular series discusses my mother’s experiences living and working on a southern Alberta farm as a child. I wish I could say [...]
The ever-expanding Oilogosphere
Earlier this afternoon, a lad named Antony Ta sent me a direct message asking me to provide some content for a new Oilers blog he was launching. Knowing as little as I do about the nitty-gritty of hockey (particularly in terms of statistics and the like) I naturally agreed.
Georges' slippers
This is the second in a short series of posts about my family’s history, living in Canada as landed immigrants in the 1950s and 60s. This particular series discusses my mother’s experiences living and working on a farm as a child. I guess life on the farm is extremely routine and regimented. It has to [...]
‘Family’s always embarrassing’
I spent the past weekend in Calgary with my little brother and sister-in-law. We decided to spend a few days down visiting my aunt and uncle — themselves visiting from Montreal and staying with my parents, a very rare thing. My aunt and uncle tend to keep to Lower Canada, seeing Alberta (sometimes rightly) as [...]
Episode the Third: Better storytelling, videogames or movies?
In this week’s episode, Adam and Scott discuss which medium — videogames or movies — make for greater storytelling engines. In order to tackle this weighty issue, we summoned local experts Anita Kuny and Ramin Ostad. From inside the belly of a whale, we argued, fought, fussed, and consumed various quantities of very poor Canadian [...]