Have you ever lost someone close to you? I’m not talking about a pet or someone you went to high school with but never actually talked to, I mean someone really close. One of those friends where, as the cliché goes, if your entire life was represented as a series of footprints on a beach [...]

I hope your holidays were swell. Mine were. For a New Year’s resolution I decided my life needed more definition. So like many over the holidays, I succumbed to the peer pressure of purchasing an HD television. I’ve learned that standard definition television is a euphemism. It’s actually low definition. Drunk in the gutter while [...]

So I’m sitting in my underwear completely wasted and watching professional wrestling. I can get as pretentious about popular culture as the next person but when it really boils down, in my spare time I like to watch grown men kick the crap out of each other for the amusement of 20,000 screaming hillbillies holding [...]

Douglas Coupland has been giving Vancouver gifts for some time now and I wanted to give him something back so I picked up a used needle from a Downtown Eastside alleyway and put it in an empty cassette case to give to him. I don’t normally give people gifts that you can rob a bank [...]

I don’t mean to alarm you but there are people watching pornography on their video iPods. I can handle the idea of people watching porn. Whatever you want to do in your place of dwelling is cool. But the prospect of someone sitting next to me on the bus, white headphones and all, watching a [...]

Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice have been getting a lot of attention lately. And rightfully so, their show that airs in a timeslot known as “after Trailer Park Boys” is quickly becoming known in its own right and is winning audiences in Canada and around the world. Kenny vs Spenny is a reality television show [...]

Sitting down and watching an entire season of a television show is the new crack and color pink at the same time. This pink colored crack is highly addictive and goes with every pair of shoes you own. You can lay motionless in a vegetative state and consume a year’s worth of programming in the [...]