January 2012
3 posts
December 2011
6 posts
November 2011
17 posts
THE GREEK CABBIE AND THE KEVIN
Hello friends.
What have I been up to in Toronto recently? Oh, just listening to a cabbie tell me the saddest story of all time. You know, NOT MUCH.
I was cabbing home through an industrial part of Toronto at midnight. And I don’t know, maybe I prompted the cabbie to start talking. Maybe I said, “Where are you from?” and he took that to mean, “Yo man, what’s...
MOVEMBER: A DEFENSE OF HIPSTERS
Movember is upon us, Bless The Lords, and guys everywhere are taking advantage of a charity moment to do something they secretly really want to do a lot of the time: sport moustaches. And so they should! Moustaches look great!
But it SEEMS like lots of the young dudes who’re thrilled that they get to sport moustaches are the same young dudes who shit all over the hipsters who helped bring...
MY MELANCHOLIA REVIEW
The first 40 minutes or so of Lars Von Trier’s new movie Melancholia are slow and strange and hard to judge. You know from the opening montage that an approaching planet is going to make everyone slow down and get very emotional, but then the movie flashes back to before the big, slow, emotional event — to a lavish wedding where the only slow-moving and emotional element is Kirsten...
PICNICFACE IN TORONTO (PLUS INSULTS)
Two Picnicface shows in Toronto for Sketchfest. Tomorrow, Friday, at Second City (11 pm) and Saturday at Lower Ossington Theatre (10 pm). Advertising on tumblr? I guess I’m asking for a lot of EMOTIONAL WEIRDOS to come to my show. HAHAHAHAHA FUCK ALL OF YOU!
Love from,
Mark
October 2011
7 posts
August 2011
4 posts
MY 10-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL REUNION
That’s my high school. The place where Boy Mark became Slightly Taller Boy Mark. Can you handle the subtlety of that metamorphosis, Ovid!? NO YOU CANNOT. IT IS TOO NUANCED FOR YOUR NYMPH-CRAZED MIND.
Hark, everyone! I’m harking you! Lend me your ear and let me tell you about my high school reunion, an event I didn’t attend but still experienced, in a way. Ready, internet?...
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“It’s fascinating and dreadful in hindsight to realize how quickly these...”
– This part of Maud Newton’s terrific piece on one of the accidental legacies of David Foster Wallace’s essays (from this weekend’s New York Times magazine) gave me symptoms of actual, physical panic. What self-respecting blogger isn’t guilty of leaning way too hard on artificial folksiness?
But I do...
July 2011
5 posts
June 2011
8 posts
