Shotgun / March 2005

Sassy-ass and Sissy-free

Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ March 31, 2005
You’re being so tough to me
like a leather jacket
I know you’ll have no sissies
No baby you just wouldn’t hack it
gotta be a strong man
to carry the beautiful burden of your love
no sissies get your love
no slackers get your love
no weaklings get your love
no suckers for your love
no actors […]

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“Take a pill and chill, Hill”

Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ March 24, 2005
I heard on CBC television the other day about a new experimental therapy for people suffering from severe depression.
It involves embedding a chip in the C25 region of the brain. The chip interacts with electrodes and a pacemaker implanted under the collarbone somehow. With this therapy, a […]

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You have one new message

Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ March 17, 2005
I was checking my messages the other day, and I had one new message. It was from the Motorsports Centre in Gatineau saying we have to talk about a broken part on my Ski-Doo. What a relief!
Hey wait … I don’t have a Ski-Doo.
Do you ever get […]

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Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?

Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ March 10, 2005
So I read in the papers last Friday that the City could do more to lower the levels of chlamydia and gonorrhea among young people if it could bring safe-sex and testing programs into English Catholic schools.
But guess what?
The Ottawa-Carleton Catholic school board isn’t really down […]

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So, the kids are alright?

Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ March 3, 2005
…says who?
For starters, the kids themselves. Take for instance high-schooler and online XPress reader, D’Janau Morales. He argues that kids aren’t all bad as Shotgun portrayed them to be in “Tough Ass to Crack” (February 17) and cautions against generalizing about “kids today,” speaking out against my […]

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