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dialect and diatribes

valley girls are everywhere even if, in toronto, that means the humber valley. there was a point in the early 1980's when to speak every sentence as though it were a question and abuse "like" as an ad...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:34:00 GMT

blah de blah blah blah: poorly articulated options

yesterday i realized that:a) i love architecture because it is the most apt concretization of theory;b) the only (vaguely) successful counterargument to the problems of high capitalism, globalization,...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 07:02:00 GMT

from the mouths of babes

lately my primary task at work has been to categorize submissions to an annual high school design competition, and the process has been equal parts terrifying and hilarious. frankly, i'm unsure if i s...
Posted by on Thu, 31 May 2007 13:04:00 GMT

hey ladies

PART ONEwhat's with all the bare legs? you do know it's winter, right?yeah, i know, you're down from woodbridge on a saturday night, looking for some skeezy action with the other provincial migrants a...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:22:00 GMT

oh deliver us from partying ...

toronto. why is social life distinguished by "parties," and the act of "partying?" its a bizarre phenomena that seems to define what there is to do in this city. its always this party, that party, my ...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:06:00 GMT

the unfulfilled jerk

do i really have a populist prerogative? or am i merely pretending to as a means of effacing my own discomfort with being vaguely intelligent?do i "dumb it down" because i want to feel normal, or beca...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:59:00 GMT

the cultural complainer

it's easy to believe that the world belongs to the whims of idiots, but the romantic in me refuses to succumb. to resign to a life of passivity, exchanging sighs and secret glances with those who trul...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:14:00 GMT

friends in the dark

so i was up until three in the morning the other night, scribbling prosaic descriptions about my happy experiences in cote-des-neiges cemetary when it occured to me how entirely morbid,...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:14:00 GMT

la fin.

... so in my infinite capacity to negate every belief and opinion i've held up to a certain point, i've made the decision to pursue my master's and live out the life of a sheepish academic for the nex...
Posted by on Thu, 11 May 2006 10:52:00 GMT

nerds and bums

so i finally heard back from the university of toronto concerning my application to grad school and have found myself on what would be deemed the "reversion list." this is more or less a daunting...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:50:00 GMT