As an employee at a recycling company I move a lot of empty cans and bottles around. All of the empties we collect get dropped off at the bottle depot in downtown Calgary. It is not a great place to spend a lot of time. First of all, hauling 65 gallon bins full of empty wine bottles is not fun. They are heavy and I... Read More
I haven't really been busy but I guess some stuff has happened in the last month.
I celebrated my 27th birthday by driving up to Edmonton to visit my best friend and his wife who had a baby a few days earlier. I held a five day old baby girl. I didn't drop her and I was not puked on. Visit number one was a... Read More
There is no such thing as transmitted disease. People can't pass colds or flus to each other. His proof for this is that Mother Theresa never got AIDS even though she worked with sick people. I could have explained to him that it was seriously unlikely that she was sharing needles... Read More
It's one of the lost rescue ships from the book. It was trapped in the ice for two years and eventually abandoned. They also found the graves of three... Read More
Tonight I played a corpse for a government funded public safety campaign. I had to sit in front of a mall in a lawn chair for three hours while people from a local radio station handed out flyers and free mints. Here are some things I learned.
The hardest part of being dead is not breathing. Closely followed... Read More
Hey sports fans. Why do you cheer for your team? What made them your team?
I was born in northern Alberta in 1983. If you lived north of Red Deer in the 80s there was only one hockey team. They were the Edmonton Oilers. My first memories of hockey are of Wayne Gretzky and Stanley Cups. My dad is an Oilers fan. My mom is... Read More
I grew up watching boxing. My father loved boxing. Every afternoon he'd fall asleep watching boxing while watching me. My mother thought it was too violent which made it all the more appealing.
We also grew up in a house with lots of classic WWF/Stampede Wrestling. I loved it, especially in the early days with the female Japanese-style wrestler. I eventually grew out of the wrestling, but not out of the spectacle.
I think that's why I've always been a fan of combat sports. It's why I love martial arts, but hate martial art films, and it's why I find two men beating each other up entertaining.
Whenever I feel filthy and awful, I've found drinking a gallon of orange juice and then immeditaly swilling mouthwash in the shower makes me feel better for entire minutes. I hope you find a solution that works for you.
