Never saw The Devil Wears Prada but I’d lie to you if I did. Meryl Streep is supposed to be great in it. I’ve never seen a movie she’s been in but the middleaged women I play bridge with on the third Sunday of every month tell me she’s fantastic. I did see The Devil [...]

You should really take summer off. You owe it to yourself to march up to your boss and demand the summer off, with pay. After your boss says ‘yes’ point out that global warming means longer summers and demand not to come back till November. Suggest resuming work near Remembrance Day so your first week [...]

I made one tragic attempt at being musical and it ended with me throwing a Yamaha keyboard against a wall. I’d taken a week of piano lessons and decided I was ready to perform Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in front of the school. Overly ambitious for someone in grade 2? Perhaps. I only knew the first [...]

Ice cream season is rapidly approaching so here’s an amazing story about ice cream. Odai Sirri is a writer for Reuters stationed in Doha, Qatar. If you’re not aware, Reuters is a wire service with thousands of writers around the world that sells news to other publications. The logic behind them is they allow newspapers [...]

In the creative world, artists tend to be pigeonholed. Everyone’s supposed to have a thing, perhaps because a single focus is easier to market, but beyond that, the general public just seems unwilling to accept a lot of crossover action. We’re okay, for example, with singer/dancers, painter/drawers, and other such obvious pairings, but try [...]

All too often I hear that media doesn’t teach us anything positive. It’s strictly eye candy that’s rotting away the teeth of civilization. That changes now. Trying to get a magazine off the ground is a phenomenal way to build up your personal debt, so in honor of our three year anniversary, I’m going to [...]

Happy New Year. With Maury Povich You-are-not-thefather-like jubilation, we bring you volume four of ION Magazine. The holidays were fun. I won’t elaborate any further because talking about the holidays in February isn’t very topical (apologies to our Chinese readers). But talking about relationships and Valentine’s Day in February is topical. So let’s talk about [...]

Technology has been blowing my mind lately. It doesn’t take much to blow my mind but nonetheless my mind has been blown. Also, my mind gets blown significantly later than others, so stuff that might have blown your mind a year ago is only now blowing my mind. Yeah I’ve got an iPod and yeah [...]

I’ve decided to abandon driving a car. It’s nothing political and I’m not trying to make some sort of statement. But I will say my insurance premiums sky rocketed after I took out another car. Try and convince a claims adjuster that it isn’t your fault when the other car was parked. So yeah, this [...]

The great thing about summer is if you allocate your time well you can get drunk twice in the same day. Another great thing about the summer is sitting on the beach and gawking at passersby. It’s like for those precious few months it’s socially acceptable to be a creep. I have a theory about [...]

In Neil LaBute’s 1997 debut film In the Company of Men, the lead character, Chad, states his objective in a chilling line: “Let’s hurt somebody.” With his wrenching story of two middle managers who set out to humiliate a female co-worker, LaBute entered into the ranks of America’s leading provocative filmmakers. Par for the course, [...]

When I was in grade six I joined one of those record clubs. I don’t think I even liked music at the time. I just liked the idea of getting 10 tapes for a penny. Prior to joining, the only tapes I owned were Straight Outta Compton and Nasty as I Wanna Be, which I [...]