Day 141: Places To Visit If You’re Bored – Nauru

originally published May 20, 2012 For those of you looking to escape the world, I may have found the place for you. It’s cozy, out of the way, and you can pack light. Just remember to bring your satellite internet uplink or else that box set of West Wing seasons you’ve been meaning to catch […]

Day 140: Don’t Mess With A White Woman – The Hannah Duston Story

originally published May 19, 2012 If high school history classes were filled with the world’s most extreme displays of badassery, no one would ever ditch to go smoke behind the A&W. History needs more wow-factor. It needs more Hannah Duston. This is the story of a Puritan woman who was forced into an awful situation. […]

Day 139: Psychophysics, Qu’est-ce que c’est?

originally published May 18, 2012 The trajectory of this writing experiment is going to fly through some pretty personal space, I’ve accepted that. One of my goals in this exercise is to learn more about myself, why I am the way I am. To that end, I’ll be employing today’s topic – psychophysics – to […]

Day 138: Batman & Lesbians!

originally published May 17, 2012 Here’s a little soupcon of insight into how an article is born. Today I happened upon the topic of Batman. For the briefest of schoolboy in-breaths I thought I’d struck gold with my second Dark Knight-themed article. Then I looked closer. Batman is a city. A city in Turkey, to […]

Day 137: Bill Whatcott – Spreader Of Hate, Possibly Has A Tiny Penis

originally published May 16, 2012 You see this guy? I would never advocate violence toward another human being, but more than anyone else in Canada, this guy deserves to eat crap. I’m not using that as an expression either – I won’t encourage violence, but I will encourage any waiter / busboy / cook that […]

Day 136: A Strange Slice Of Saskatchewan

originally published May 15, 2012 It goes without saying that anyone whose Wikipedia article describes him as a “Finnish-born sailor, farmer and Canadian madman” deserves a kilograph here. I had bungled on to the story of Tom Sukanen while researching my original topic, the Great Wall of Saskatchewan. This is a real thing. Over the […]

Day 135: Monkey Brains – A Truly Offal Food

originally published May 14, 2012 I thought this was a joke. Did Ms. Wiki really serve me up a helping of monkey brains for today’s topic? Delicious. Fortunately, as this is a high-turnover project that only allows for a tiny window of research, I won’t be able to seek out and review an actual dish […]

Day 134: Ephemera & The World Calendar Cult

originally published May 13, 2012 Today’s topic is ephemera. Defined as transitory written matter that is not intended to be saved or preserved, it is naturally something that folks in our society save and preserve to a ridiculous extent. People collect ephemera like they’ve found the lost written prophecies of King Jehoiachin. I’m sure somewhere […]

Day 133: Of Folds And Smith

originally published May 12, 2012 It’s never easy writing about someone I admire. I run the risk of babbling, and sounding like a gushing fanboy, instead of the award-winning journalist that I’d rather pretend to be. A couple days ago I found a unique take on the Beatles, which allowed me to write intelligently about […]

Day 132: Diagnosis – Jumping Frenchmen Of Maine…?

originally published May 11, 2012 As a public service message to my readers, I’d like to inform you that you are all somehow diseased. For most of you, this extends no further than the general diseases of our society: inherent greed, chronic materialism, finding the films of Katherine Heigl to be funny, and so on. […]