Lemurian Congress

"...the police officer said to him, 'I'm not gonna charge you if you take my advice: respect your parents. They brought you int...

Italians conspire and shush politics with their wife-birds, bedraggled, bluntly confused. They are Europe's ambassadors to this crass co...

The New Yorker was in a tizzy about humanism throughout 1930, as the philosophy had suddenly come back into vogue and gained national atten...

Some people seem like they're born to scam, even if they don't have to. It's like there's some part of the human brain devot...

During most of my adult years I have had a low-level loathing for children. I understand that they're "little people" and ther...

The last time I quoted a conversation between two prototypical "Stinkies," the transcription was referred to as "a weird sor...

It goes without saying that serving customers at Tim Horton's was not an empowering job. I worked there for five years between 1994 and ...

Sometimes it seems like the world is out to get me. You know this is leading to a story about intense frustration, so let's get right to...

ROUTE ONE: Stanley Park (In which our intrepid explorer discovers the plan's weaknesses). Go here for pictures! I'm doing these ro...

I mentioned in a previous post the phenomenon of "The Stinkies," a strange subgroup of physically odd and socially inept people w...

I served so many customers at Tim Horton's that I was bound to deal with many difficult, aggressive, and downright crazy people. If you...