Lezlie Lowe

When will I stop digging holes in backyard gardens? When will you find the last turd of mine beside your tomato plant or nestled up against those petunias you grew from seed? When you catch me and staple my furry butthole closed, you moron, that’s when. I’m an outdoor cat. It’s in my nature. See, […]

OK, that’s one down. I just finished reading Rob Sheffield’s short, wicked-good Love is a Mix Tape. And I’m bolstered, man, bolstered—flying into summer reading season ready to take on the next tome in the pile of yet-to-be-reads in my office. Problem. The stack is 55 books high. Do you have any idea what that […]

Surely you’ve noticed it’s summer. The mercury shoots up into appropriate-for-early-June territory and the city goes mad. Men rip off their shirts and strut down Barrington in the insufferable 20.6 degree heat, women stuff their bikini bottoms up their cracks and sunbathe on the north Common (I saw it!), those cock-rocket 200-decibel motorcycle dudes zoom […]

Figures. Off I went in my last column blithely praising the provincial government. I should have known that kind of out-of-character move would come back to bite me in the ass. See, I bitched last time around about the Harper government’s 2006 axing of the One Tonne Challenge environmental education campaign and, silly me, I […]

And in a flash, there goes Edison’s incandescent bulb. OK, the flash part’s exaggeration. In fact, this new Tory green scheme is too little too late—it doesn’t take effect until 2012 and it’ll only quash six million tonnes of greenhouse pollution annually; we need to delete way more than that to meet our Kyoto targets. […]

Have you heard about the University of Western Ontario Gazette’s annual spoof issue and its mock news coverage of a fake “Take Back the Nightie” protest? I’ll save you the degradation of having to read it with a run-down of the low points: The writer illustrates some tiresome stereotypes of women, disparages the work of […]

Dear single-occupant commuters, I regret to inform you that your time here is up. Actually, scratch that. I have no regrets. Go away. Get moving. And don’t make it any more difficult than it needs to be—carry on with your death throes and do hurry up. Get your arse on the bus, or on the […]

You won’t hear this often from me. But the American Family Association is—gulp—right. There is something wrong with Dove’s new pro•age ads. The AFA—a non-profit, “pro-family” society which blames the US entertainment industry for the alleged dive in American values—is urging a boycott of Unilever, Dove’s parent company. The AFA is all riled up about […]

You’re a rock star. Well, you could be, anyway, if you’d just find the time to launch that blog you’ve been talking about. Bloggers, the blahtastically dubbed purveyors of online diaries, are the new rock stars, according to the hype for PostieCon ’07, a blogger conference coming up in June in Orlando, Florida www.postiecon.com Go […]

No doubt you’ve heard this before: “I’ve been living fast-fast-fast, rush-rush-rush, go-go-go. And it’s not getting me anywhere.” What you likely haven’t heard before is Mike McGlone’s antidote to his problem. He’s eating nothing but food from the Halifax Farmers’ Market for one year. McGlone, who market regulars will know as Mike the Fish Guy—gregarious, […]

Valentine’s Day isn’t real. Oh, sure, people will tell you it is. The intellectuals will argue it’s steeped in a history part Roman and part ancient Christian, complete with a martyred saint and a popularity craze that fired up in the middle ages and burns scorchingly hot still today. The commercial sector will tell you […]