Sylvie Hill

Ottawa XPress, Feburary 17, 2005 Has this ever happened to you? You’re sitting alone on the bus or waiting quietly by yourself on a bench for a friend when all of a sudden an imposing group of loud teenagers saunters in your direction. You immediately categorize them as a bunch of wannabe toughies and continue […]

Ottawa XPress, Feburary 10, 2005 There’s a place in my soul where No one else can adore you And like the poet-soldier says I would spill my blood for you. ~ “Subversives,” by Lowest of the Low Valentine’s Day is upon us, smeared with romance and chocolate marshmallow treats, with heart-shaped boxes and red velour […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – Feburary 3, 2005 People use Internet sex sites to explore, escape, educate and ejaculate. A Google search on the word “porn” returns over 80 million pages, and “XXX” provides more than 76 million. Each day, hundreds of thousands of individuals access the Internet to make a sexual contact with each […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – January 27, 2005 The guy who put the “Tony” in Tony’s Smoke and Roma Barber Shop at 233 Elgin Street passed away suddenly last week. A hand-written note on the door announced the sad news. It’s a tiny shop where you can buy bus tickets, scan dusty old National Geographic […]

Ottawa XPress, January 20, 2005 For a woman to tout the achievements of her gender with praise and admiration does not mean automatically she’s a feminist. And, far from being a judgmental anti-feminist, when one female points out another female’s shortcomings – such as cheating on a boyfriend or maybe dressing inappropriately for winter – […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – January 13, 2005 Waiting for the bus on chilly mornings, I really have to do something about the way I view presentable, professionally dressed women in winter. I fear I may be too critical of their gear. In my diligent study of women’s outdoor appearance – delightful hats, flimsy scarves, […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – January 6, 2005 Growing up in the 1980s, the extent of my sexual education involved a book my mom had lying around called Our Bodies, Ourselves, and serious investigation into why dudes got retarded over Daisy Duke. The book didn’t help. Its content-depicting mammas with full, hanging breasts the size […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – December 23, 2005 To gauge a stranger’s appeal and what will in turn make you attractive to others at home, in the workplace and out in the city in the New Year, you have to look beyond the usual indicators-money, repute and power. To figure out if someone digs you, […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – December 16, 2005 Looking back in the news of the year past usually involves considering all the wars and bad shit that happened. Different things stick out for different people. For me, it’s a mix of the monumental and the common and especially of things that maybe the entire world […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – December 9, 2005 “yes because theres a wonderful feeling there so tender all the time how did we finish it off yes O yes I pulled him off into my handkerchief pretending not to be excited but I opened my legs I wouldnt let him touch me inside my petticoat […]