Shotgun / May 2005

Girls

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – May 19, 2005 The Victoria Day long weekend is here again. And I have to ask myself: What does the English Queen Victoria – credited with little humour à la “we are not amused,” wearing a lace cap and symbolizing an age of Victorian repression – have to do with [...]

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Rockstars

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – May 12, 2005 Shy of being a total starfucker, I just can’t help it: I heart rock stars. Hell, I can’t say I’ve ever ran as many errands about town as I have this month hoping for a chance encounter with big star Howe Gelb of Giant Sand, rumoured to [...]

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Wife

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – May 5, 2005 I was in the new Hartman’s grocery store in Centretown the other day and overheard some lady bark, “Check the expiry date!” to her man as he reached for the Heinz value pack of hotdog and hamburger condiments. And it got me thinking about bitchy wives and [...]

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