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Book Review: Heart Shaped Box, by Joe Hill
Heart Shaped Box tells the story of an aging rock star with a bad habit of buying morbid and unusual artifacts. One such artifact is a box (yes, in the shape of a heart) said to contain a ghost. Spoiler alert: it does. This is a ghost story that doesn’t fuck around. It’s clear from…
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Evolution's Failures
I think it’s hilarious to imagine evolution’s failures. Think of how our digestive systems are able to function no matter which way we’re sitting or lying, carrying food to the right place in a peristaltic wave, even if it’s going against gravity. Think of the pre-human who didn’t get that gene. He’s all like, “check out this…
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Concert Review: The Black Keys with Cage the Elephant at the JLC, July 12 2011
The Black Keys were slow to grow on me. For the last five years I’ve heard the muted hype surrounding them, but it wasn’t until last year’s album Brothers that I really gave in to their genius. At least I was primed in time for when the John Labatt Centre’s Twitter feed announced1 that they were…
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