I am the only person to have ever complained in public about Christmas Daddies. Christmas Daddies is the seasonal telethon, broadcast by CTV across the Maritimes. This year it’s on Saturday, December 3, from 11am to 6pm. It raises money for underprivileged children. The story of the beginning of Christmas Daddies, recounted at christmasdaddies.org, is […]
Jane Kansas
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Eternal sunshine
A fortune from a Chinese cookie was glued with some sort of goo to Michael Weir’s computer and centred just above the screen. The red ink text was sandwiched between two happy faces. It said: You are heading for a land of sunshine. Michael Weir died on Thursday, September 22. He was at home in […]
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Get out
Christ, I’m in such a mood just thinking about all this. In 2005 I am shocked (shocked! Say it in a high operatic voice tinged with contempt) that gay, lesbian, bisexual or just badly confused people still want to keep their sexualities as dirty little secrets. Cowards. Worse. As in the case of Ida Ho […]
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Hey ladies
There’s nothing like a dame, says the old song.1 Except maybe two dames. Getting it on. These days you can surf to 10,000 sites or tune your TV to The L Word and see gals going at it, tits to the wind.2 You can waltz into any magazine or bookstore of half decent size and […]
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Motel hell
When the world wasn’t lit so well by giant tungsten candles and strobing halogen fireflies the neon sign of a motel would really stand out. You could be coming into town, late on the road, tired, grimey, hungry. There it would be, warming the night sky with the colours of fireworks, there would be the […]
