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Recent writing
637,540 pounds of hot iron 100,000 gallons of water 17,760 gallons of fuel oil 3,000 kilometres 566 digital photographs 400 pounds of food 250 litres of gasoline 30 mugs of beer 16 hard-working people 8 days 6 hotels …
Most of you know how hard it is sometimes to catch a train. Sometimes you’re running late, or the train’s early, or your watch stopped and you’re not really sure what time it is — any number of a dozen reasons why you’d …
Well, I had meant to write this earlier this week, but after what happened on Tuesday, I hope you can understand why there’s a delay. Most of you probably don’t know that I went back to Toronto on the weekend. It was a …
Yesterday, someone whacked the biggest kid in the yard in the back of the head with a 2×4. And now he’s very, very angry. Yesterday morning, for me, was of little consequence when I got up. I was tired, mostly due to jet …
Another summer has come and (almost) gone. Luckily, it wasn’t a summer spent indoors, stuck in front of my computer (as much as it might have actually felt like that). Given, I had hoped to get out more to places I …
If there’s one thing Critical Mass knows how to do, it’s getting its employees horribly, horribly drunk. Last year, this was courtesy of the Download Overload in Westbank. However, owing to financial downturns in the …
I have a new girlfriend. She’s a little temperamental, though. She gets hot really fast, she’s always blowing steam, and at the moment has a nasty tendency to run around mostly naked. That, and she weighs 637,540 pounds. …
I knew something was up a few months ago, when Chris told me he was going to Ontario for “a friend’s wedding”. Chris is rarely that vague. More often than not, he’ll include a name, even if it’s someone I …
Once upon a time, you couldn’t go very far out here without running into a railway. Tracks criss-crossed the land like a bad hair weave. If you had to get somewhere, you went by train. There were no highways, except for …
Everyone needs a break from time to time, and Critical Mass was more than willing to give us a little time to breathe. So in addition to the statutory holiday on Monday, they decided to give us Friday off as well. So of …