February 2012
1 post
DailyXY: Casting Calls That Changed Film History →
January 2012
4 posts
DailyXY: Driving Distance, Calgary: Winter Escapes →
Many will run from winter, I say embrace it.
Popular Songs Once Stuck in My Head (1999 - Age...
December 2011
9 posts
1 tag
DailyXY: Music 2011, The Best of Calgary →
DailyXY: Holiday Gift Guide 2011, Calgary →
I selected five unique gifts you can only find in Calgary. Check it out.
DailyXY: Casinos in Calgary →
DailyXY: Fast Cars in Reverse →
Too fast, too furious;and seriously…let’s be serious about this.
DailyXY: Driving Distance, Cochrane →
You have to leave Cowtown to find the real cowboys and cowgirls.
November 2011
4 posts
DailyXY: Neighbourhood Guide, Marda Loop →
I miss Calgary.
Back to Back to the Future →
This is such a clever photographic concept.
DAILYXY: Where to Learn Martial Arts in Calgary →
My guide to the foot-fist way in Cowtown.
DailyXY: 3 Real-Life Crazy Military Experiments... →
My editor at DailyXY has started assigning exclusive Facebook pieces (for a national audience). I think it’s a great idea to maximize/grow the site. It’s also awesome because I get to pitch super random topics, such as this one.
October 2011
3 posts
Rob Delaney: On Depression & Getting Help →
This was originally posted February 26, 2010.
I deal with suicidal, unipolar depression and I take medication daily to treat it. Over the past seven years, I’ve had two episodes that were severe and during which I thought almost exclusively of suicide. I did not eat much and lost weight during…
September 2011
13 posts
6 tags
How to be a great writer (excerpt)
litreactor:
get a large typewriter and as the footsteps go up and down outside your window hit that thing hit it hard make it a heavyweight fight
make it the bull when he first charges in
and remember the old dogs who fought so well: Hemingway, Celine, Dostoevsky, Hamsun.
if you think they didn’t go crazy in tiny rooms just like you’re doing now without women without food without hope then...
1 tag
August 2011
5 posts
Moving to BC (Bring Composure)
It’s been two weeks since I moved from the prairies for the bigger (than Calgary) city life of Vancouver; and other than missing my family and friends quite a bit still, I wish I’d tried a move like this, way before my 30th birthday (coming this Sept. 19 … dang!).
I realized today, I haven’t grown personally this much, this fast since I rented a bedroom in Jerad...
July 2011
1 post
I spotted the luckiest man on earth today. →
I was out doing some errands with my Mom when I spotted him. Five time lotto winner Seguro Ndabene. My parents tell me he can often be seen at Co-op in Airdrie (and a few other spots), buying hundreds of lotto tickets each week — but to see it in person is incredibly thought provoking … and/or depressing.
Here’s a guy that’s won close to $20 million, spending his golden years...