Sylvie Hill

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – September 8, 2006 During my vacation last month in Halifax at a Maritime wedding – surrounded by great live Celtic music and friendly types merrily jigging their hearts away in celebration of love and happiness – I found that sticking to my self-imposed four-months-off-the-booze pledge was challenging. I finally succumbed […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Originally published in The Ottawa XPress (VOIR MEDIA), 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 […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – July 21, 2005 I love boys and music. Too bad it’s not as easy to pick up a boy as you might snatch up the latest Oasis CD from your favourite music store. But an old Ottawa friend who moved to London, U.K. years ago said to me that if […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – July 14, 2005 It was only when I was introduced to cartoon characters Jem and the Holograms that I fully grasped the concept that chicks who rocked out could also potentially wield special powers to, figuratively speaking, kick the shit out of evil misfits. Kind of like the musicians taking […]

The Ottawa XPress – July 7, 2005 BOOK REVIEW Aviva Cohen’s Sex and Sublimation (Tritonia Press, 213 pages, $19.99) Aviva Cohen’s debut novel gives art and authenticity a highly sexualized once-over Sex and Sublimation is a literary gem that shines light on the role and responsibility of the feeling person in contemporary society. A text […]

Get Guerilla Magazine Issue #3 In 2001, I self-published a book of spoken word poetry called Hoxton Square Circles: Starfucking Tales of Sexless One-Night Stands. I didn’t have a clue about bar codes and ISBN numbers or anything else about publishing for that matter. I quickly recruited some fledgling graphic designers, sent the book to […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – June 30, 2005 So Canada Day weekend is upon us and that means a tonne of party people out and about maybe looking for some firecracker action, non? And I don’t just mean the graphic display down at Parliament Hill. I’m talking about in your pants, pal. Or, out of […]