To all the people who work the night shift: cleaners, guards, healthcare and emergency personnel, 24-hour store (and Tim’s) clerks, night stockers, call-centre agents and the rest of you: thank you for keeping us clean, healthy, safe, and well-fed and keeping the world turning while we (mostly) sleep….you all rock!!!!
—hootenany helen
This article appears in Oct 15-21, 2009.


Shit, and all this time I thought it was fat bottomed girls that make the rockin’ world go round.
That just brought a smile to my face. Cheers!