This morning very early, my cousin Andrée and I packed our still-sleeping bodies in the car, grabbed two lattes on the way and went to pay our grandmother a surprise visit. Our grandmother Antoinette (“Mimi” to us, “Nenette” to most her friends and in-laws), is ninety-two years old and lives in the neat bungalow our [...]
This is the contract whose description was forwarded to me by email, along with the message: “too good to be true”, followed by a string of ponctuation marks. Getting paid to blog and take photographs while traveling across every single Canadian province and territory; from Nunavut to Halifax, to Quebec City to Yellow Knife, and [...]
All right LIGHT TRAFFIC homies. I’m going to need your help on this one. I’ve already put the question to my Twitter people and not too surprisingly, no one could come up with anything. (It breaks a heart to see how bearded-guru illiterate the younger generations are getting. Really.) So this is the story. One [...]
You wouldn’t have to look very hard on this blog to figure out I usually prefer my hip-hop on the plain side – meaning as devoid as possible of innovative genre-bendings. Of all unholy alliances (country-rap/hick-hop anyone?), the hybrid I’ve traditionally been most suspicious of – and let’s be honest – disquieted by, is that [...]