Category: writing / books
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Me in Maclean’s, + Wrinkly Nuts
Sooo there’s an article about me in Maclean’s Magazine (April 12th issue, page 62). It goes like so: Plain old coffee can be boring, so Mike “Phronk” [my last name] of London, Ont., likes to put “weird things” in his (he keeps a blog about it). [etc.] Conspicuously absent? The address of said blog. I…
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The Horrors of Internet Dating, Volume 6
I got this message a while ago: So mysterious! Is “garte” even better than great? What exactly does “hi sexie tattoosit” mean? Nothing is more alluring than mystery, so I clicked to see her profile. RELEASE THE CRAKING. First we get what she doesn’t want. Fair enough. A few spelling problems there, but I don’t…
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Book Review: Some Girls Are, by Courtney Summers
I’ve been a huge Courtney Summers fan for about a year. I don’t mean a fan of her books, but of Courtney Summers herself. As soon as I heard her interview on I Should be Writing, with her brutal honesty about the struggle between writing and internet distractions, plus her palpable passion for zombies, I…
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