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Greeting Cards for Tiny Occasions
Eve Corbel creates a set of greeting cards to celebrate life's best and worst mundane moments. Read more
4-Day Forecast for Wendy
"Today your dog will decide to end things. Your dog, who is wearing a red vinyl jacket and is tied to the tree on the boulevard outside the thrift store." Read more
Dream-Life of Cities
"If cities can be said to be alive, how many of them dream of growing up to become Paris?" Michael Hayward reviews How Paris Became Paris by Joan DeJean. Read more
All Folked Up
Kris Rothstein recounts her experience at the Pickathon, a music festival in Portland, Oregon. Read more
Spectrums
Patty Osborne reviews Do You Think This Is Strange? by Aaron Cully Drake, a look into the mind of an autistic teenage boy. Read more
Always Waking Up in Montreal
"I follow my penis around town for a while, wandering aimlessly through all the women—why do I ever leave this city?" Read more
Birth of a Nation
Lacking in drama and embarrassingly undemocratic, Canada’s origins owe a lot to old-fashioned politics and not much to European battles or transcontinental railways. Read more
Gagster Movies
Eve Corbel reviews two short biographic documentaries: Seth's Dominion and I Thought I Told You to Shut Up. Read more
45 Years of Fooling Around with A. Banana
An exploration of art and pop culture by Anna Banana. Read more
City Apart
The idea of Europe is incarnated nowhere as much as in St. Petersburg—Stephen Henighan on Europe's greatest city. Read more
Catnip for Canadians
"Life in Canada is just bear attack after bear attack. It always happens, as incalculable as the number of times Irving Layton used the word 'loins.'" Read more
In Praise of Ronald Wright
"Authenticity is the essential quality of all travel literature, imaginary or real." Read more
Home Front
"My father began his shopping spree in the fashion department. He ordered jackets, sweaters, shirts, trousers and shoes. In his new wardrobe he looks like a mummy that has been dressed up for a big night of trick-or-treating." Read more
Unhappy
Stephen Osborne discusses the happiness level of Vancouver, the best place on earth. Read more
I Don't Read
"I don’t read them—I don’t have time; I scan them. The title explains it all: I don’t read." Read more
Pacific Meats & Frozen Foods, Inc.
"I fed an eight-year-old a hot dog that I’d dropped in the sink and then shortchanged him because we were out of five-dollar bills." Read more
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