... "compassion" is the acceptable face of contempt Anyone Catholic hovering around right now? Take a deep breath, fasten your seatbelts, and prepare your sick bags. There’s something I need to tell you. Because, after experiencing several decades? — centuries? — it feels like a long time, anyway — of your current drag queen, Pope … Continue reading A Definite Air of Faggotry
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… And Then, Kamala
I'm just a hope junkie gettin' his fix Holy moly, by every saint in heaven and all the foam-rubber cheese-hats in Chicago! Nail me blinking to a plastic cross and shove me in a cotton-blend pant-suit, you American Democrats know how to throw a convention! Thanks to y'all, this hick-town Canadian boy is wide awake … Continue reading … And Then, Kamala
I’m Living Through History
And it's even less fun than it sounds THIS SUMMER OF THE YEAR TWENTY TWENTY-FOUR of the Common Era, a summer of ominous extremes of climate and conflict, finds me living through history, at least so the news anchors tell me. The implication is that I should be awe-struck and grateful for waking up in … Continue reading I’m Living Through History
A couple of interviews featuring me and The Book
I recently did a few interviews about my latest book, "Sorry Looking for NOW LOL". Here's one with Canada Talks and another with the Shaun Proulx Show. David Roddis interviewed on The Breakdown — May 13 2024 David Roddis on the Shaun Proulx Show. Other ways to find out more: You can read an excerpt … Continue reading A couple of interviews featuring me and The Book
… Long Live the Donald?
The Founders rejected absolute monarchy in 1776. But in 2024, with republican ideals under siege and an autocrat telegraphing his readiness, a demoralized America appears ready to crown a new king. Donald Trump believes he has absolute immunity from prosecution for anything he did during his presidency; that the President, is, after all, above the … Continue reading … Long Live the Donald?
The King is Dead…
Rex Murphy took the dull, simple aria of white male grievance and turned it into operatic psychodrama. It’s been SO LONG since I posted here—I thought I would take a mental health break, but ultimately decided to run with the crazy—I’m anxious, completely disoriented, and basically behaving like my IQ is in single digits. I’m … Continue reading The King is Dead…
Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Doug-Days of Summer
As the endless summer stretches out before me like a million patients etherized upon a million tables — in those private clinics that Doug Ford swears are not the beginning of the end of public health care in Ontario — I realize with horror that I don’t have enough entertainment to keep me going until September. Not … Continue reading Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Doug-Days of Summer
#Monday Man Crush: The Risen Christ
#Best of my blog Don't let the bastards grind you down, little ghost-buddy-in-the-sky! Inside the gloomy sepulchre, sometime around unto the third hour on Easter Sunday, Jesus squinted at his day planner — which didn’t even say “Easter Sunday,” heads were gonna roll over that little slip-up — and sighed with frustration. Three days in this stupid … Continue reading #Monday Man Crush: The Risen Christ
Refugees Are Delicious!
... and other life hacks for the end times I wish we could screenshare right now, because I’m experiencing an iconic Canadian moment. Specifically, I’m eating some chicken wings that flew up to Roxham Road to claim refugee status — but were refused asylum, then referred to me. These delicate situations don’t just work themselves out, right? … Continue reading Refugees Are Delicious!
So You Wanna Be—Somebody?
Just get more specific, Murgatroyd McGraw. All my life I've always wanted to be somebody. But I see now I should have been more specific. Lily Tomlin as "Chrissy" in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" (© Jane Wagner, 1986) It has come to my attention that a huge proportion of … Continue reading So You Wanna Be—Somebody?