Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ August 25, 2006
Some people would like to know how they get the caramel inside a Cadbury’s Caramilk bar. I would be happy knowing how they mapped a constellation of my birth sign in blue-green mold on the underside crust of the apple pie I bought at a big corporate chain […]
Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ August 18, 2006
Do I look like I’m getting laid? Pass me the mirror; let me see this.
Inquiring minds want to know. Online reader Brad Thomas wrote, “Last article [I’ve Been So Lonely, Baby, July 21] you were looking for eye candy in Quyon, and now you’re writing an article […]
Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ August 11, 2006
Listen to the signs, to the sounds
Too many mansions coming down
My brown-eyed boy you can run
Take all I taught you. Take my gun.
~ El Hula, “Songs of Violent Love”
Love sucks.
It’s like a vampiric craving that clingwraps you to a nasty force, making you sick (and tired), […]
Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ August 4, 2005
There’s much to love about the French — their food, their sexual energy and their movies. Thanks to the French, we’ve learned a thing or two about feeding the stomach, heart and soul. And how to do it with panache.
The baguette is always fresh, French lovers constantly […]