Yes, the Daily Mail has too many typos and stopped displaying correctly on Firefox last week"and somehow nobody in charge of captions recognized impossible-to-miss future Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan in a recent feature about old Derek Ridgers photos. I can forgive all that, and even ...
Should current trends continue"although "trends" seems too grand a word for what amount to quotidian, repetitive habits and chores"my husband and I will celebrate our 20th anniversary next spring. At least, that's what I"d been telling myself, and him, until I actually Googled ...
"Passengers applaud as boy removed from plane for allergies" Hell, I clapped too and I wasn"t even on board. That headline made my day. Enough is enough! I thought. I have HAD it with these motherf—-ing wimps on these motherf—-ing PLANES! (Aside: As I write this, it's ...
My Taki's columns have now officially killed twice as many people as Ted Kennedy's car. Last April, it was Günter Grass, then last week, Harper Lee. I didn"t ask for this extraordinary gift, nor do I control it, otherwise I"d happily expand my deadly powers to reach beyond the confines ...
Harper Lee is the Rachel Carson of American fiction. Okay, let me back up: I"ve never read To Kill a Mockingbird. I was going to add, "because I"m Canadian, duh," but while researching this piece, I learned that Lee's 1960 novel had long been required reading in British ...
It's the trial of the cunt-ury! Hey, give me a break. You try coming up with something original to say about Canada's most talked-about court case pretty much ever: The something-for-everyone pseudo-celebrity sex saga I call "Ghomeshi-quiddick." As I wrote here a year ago: Jian Ghomeshi ...
So I was wrong. The 1990s Revival is going ahead after all, leading those of us who lived through that decade to ask: "Wait, things happened in the 1990s?" At the time I"d left the left, but 9/11 was obviously yet to come, so "politics" came down to my mom having to explain ...
Is there a less useful word in the English language than "suddenly"? I mean, doesn"t everything happen "suddenly," depending on when you start your timer? It's like my doctor fretting about my possibly "precancerous cells." My question""But aren"t they all, ...
Maybe it's a religion thing. I can"t imagine Sikhs or Jains fantasizing about living alone in a cozy, remote little shack. But if you"re a Christian"especially a Catholic, even a Vatican II baby like me"it's easy to catch a contact buzz from tales of heroic hermits and hobbits ...
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I never liked Bill Cosby. If, anytime between 1984 and 1992, I"d been overwhelmed by a hankering to watch a loud, pompous middle-aged man yell at his family, I"d have moved back in with my alcoholic stepfather. Bizarrely, it was that unpleasant eponymous sitcom, and not his earlier, ...
