Non-Fiction

Take Off All Your Clothes

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – October 7, 2004 “I’ll be dreaming of the kissing that I’m missing truly wishing that you listen when I simply say to you, striptease for me baby.” ~”Striptease” by Hawksley Workman In most sexual contexts, and certainly in sexy films, magazines and Harlequin Romances, aren’t men stereotypically depicted as experienced […]

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What Is a Durtygirl?

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – September 30, 2004 As you may remember from my first column, “Talk Dirty To Me,” I encouraged people to interact with porn instead of shitting on it. The latter leads to ignorance and threatens to push further underground an industry that needs attention and improvement. One reader suggested that people […]

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Danny’s Trip Down Bowie Lane

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – September 23, 2004 I got half way up to the canyon And all the stars were shining bright Your Polaroid on the dashboard It kept me going through the night So don’t wait up, just rest your eyes ‘Cause I can’t rush this beautiful ride Nobody move, this is Perfect […]

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Define This!

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – September 16, 2004 I remember it was back in my university days at the University of Ottawa, about 23 years old, in my Salvation Army-furnished living room on a Friday night. Suddenly it came to me. The revelation that somewhere in the cosmos, or on my bedposts, there was a […]

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Ain’t No Cure For Love

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – September 9, 2004 I heard the most colourful booty call song this week. It wasn’t Nelly and it wasn’t Britney. It wasn’t even Justin Timberlake who wants to rock my body. It was most hysterically, from goth-rock band, The Cure. Yes, that big fat British drunk guy with the pasty […]

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The Race is On!

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – September 2, 2004 In the spirit of TV’s Amazing Race, the Urban Challenge hit Ottawa this past weekend, challenging teams to use brains, OC Transpo and the Internet to use clues to navigate their way through the city. What a neat way to get to know the city and raise […]

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Caught With Your Pants Down

Ottawa XPress, August 26, 2004 For a lot of people, summer time means vacation time and what a time that is. Heading up to the cottage for a month or catching up on reading, gardening or drinking at your local. One summer, when I was 13, Dad took us to Florida. We spent some time […]

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I Ain’t Missing You at All

Ottawa XPress & The Hour Montreal, Shotgun, August 19, 2004 I have a nice tuque with a patch embroidered on the front. The patch is a twirling middle finger salute. It’s a Wilco tuque and it’s a deep red, the colour I was seeing when I was flipping off Mother Nature in early August, seething […]

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Talk Dirty To Me

Ottawa XPress & The Hour Montreal, August 12, 2004 The boundary between sexy and sleazy is as faint as the panty line on the tight ass of a taut preteen. Sometimes you see it, sometimes you don’t. Admit it, one of the first things you did when you hooked up your Internet was check out […]

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Girls Who Bite Back Kick Ass

The Ottawa XPress | May 20, 2004 BOOK REVIEW Emily Pohl-Weary’s edited anthology: Girls Who Bite Back (Sumach Press, 332 pp.) Girls Who Bite Back unrolls the female roll model: Superchick Anthology takes on feminist pop icons “Everything I know about feminism I learned from pop culture.” ~Sophie Levy, Manifesto for the Bitten The notion […]

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