A tutoring no-no

When the student’s mother called Martin for an appointment for math tutoring for her son, for whatever reason she told Martin she was divorced. Martin was a little confusd as to why she felt the need to volunteer the information, but he ignored it, and asked for her address. She lived on Toronto’s west end, [...]

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The eternal sunshine of a spotless debt record

A few minutes ago, I finally, after about 5 years of trying, paid off my debts with the bank, including my line of credit and my credit card. There were times the debt climbed to a nearly unmanageable $10,000 dollars, but after working like a bugger to pay it down, it finally got paid down, [...]

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How the war on terror was won

The whole thing began in 2001, when the largest nuclear power the world has ever known was brought to its knees by a bunch of guys weilding box cutters and exacto knives. Yes, in the post-nuclear era, countries with the power to evaporate entire populations will have the back of their power broken by a [...]

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Learning in its purest form

Once I romanticised learning in its purest form as being a learning done for the pure love of it. I would like to think of my childhood as being like that. But I know that the reality of my childhood was characterized by being one of intellectual vapidity outside of my pursuits, so that my [...]

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Some of what I do here

Some of what I do is to fictionalise my past and make it less boring and more spicy and readable. I find this blog to be a vehicle for practising this craft of writing fiction.
I am 45 years old, so a lot of my past have faded into a dull memory. Even reading diary entries [...]

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Completely believing people’s wildest stories

I’m into totally believing every story people tell me about themselves. Sometimes, when people tell me their problems, it’s complete horse-crap, with only the flimsiest relation to reality. But I sit in wide-eyed fascination of these artistic bullshitters. I’m just along for the ride, and sitting and listening to these tall tales aren’t really going [...]

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I wannabe Chris: A parody about Chris Crocker Parodies - Updates

Some updates to the story I wrote.
There are some minor changes to my story. (link above)
The Chris Crocker video in question.
His imitators (parody, of course, and not all male). Many of these stray far off the topic of Chris Crocker: 1 2 3 4 5 (Israel?) 6 7 8 9 10 (a hockey player?) 11
There [...]

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King Lear

Lear knew he was getting on in his years and asked his daughters Goneril, Regan and Cordelia for their proclamations of love so that they may deserve an inheritance. Cordelia takes the moral high ground by being sincere and in her sincerity she had nothing really to say, since it would not come from the [...]

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A shaggy dog

I have always been in stitches every time I read Peter Applebome’s imitation Hemingway:
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We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a French restaurant. …
I could not tell the girl about the woman of the [...]

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Little known books by JK Rowling

Welcome Back, Potter
Harry Potter gets teacher training, graduates, and gets sent back to Hogwarts to teach. He is assigned a classroom of the worst students in the school, referred to as “sweathogs”, or to be more precise, “warthogs”. See what happens with our future witches and warlocks who have emotional and learning problems, who are [...]

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More on serenity

Just Google’d “serenity” and the fourth on a list of over 19 million web pages is to the website for serenity incontinence products. So, that’s how old folks seem so serene. They just buy Serenity off the shelves at Sharper’s Drug Mark and take it home. Clever trick. All that being said, I am not [...]

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I wannabe Chris: A parody about Chris Crocker Parodies

I was going to write a parody of Roch Carrier’s The Hockey Sweater, but I didn’t really want to write a real story. I was going to write about a group of people who were all fans of Chris Crocker, in the same sense that some people in earlier generations were fans of Maurice Richard. [...]

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My next big thing

{If you have read this already, my apologies for re-posting, as I have now added a number of new categories for this article. It has been somewhat re-edited}
For the past 20 years or so, I had been pursuing this effort to get in some kind of mental groove that I was in in my early [...]

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6 hours in a Toronto public library: a vignette

{If you have read this already, my apologies for re-posting, as I have now added a number of new categories for this article}
It was cold today; snowing outside. I had to wait to get my car repaired, so I ducked into a nearby library in a part of Etobicoke I knew nothing about. This was [...]

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