Porn Nation II

The Porn Nation talk was yesterday — I didn’t go. Instead, I went to a strip club. Yeah. You can see how I feel about the whole “porn is bad” thing.
In any case, they covered the campus in even more advertising because yesterday was the Day Of, so they spraypainted PORN NATION on the snow [...]

Beauty hurts.

It is 10:30 PM, and I am sitting my living room. My head hurts. I am wearing jeans, a tanktop, and pumps. Not because I’m going out or have any special plans for the evening, except going to bed in the near future because I feel a migraine coming on, pulsing in my right temple [...]

I don’t want to offend anyone, but…

You always do manage, don’t you? Whenever someone starts a sentence with, “I’m not trying to offend anybody” or “I don’t want to offend anyone” or something like that, I know… I just know they’re about to say something that I’m going to want to slap them for. Especially if they’re Christian.
Yesterday morning, I was [...]

Spoon Bending

I know a guy who is convinced this guy he knows can bend spoons. I can bend spoons too, and I’m just guessing here that you probably can as well. The difference, of course, is that this guy, the Guy Who Bends Spoons, does it with his mind. Just like Uri Gellar.
Of course, Uri Gellar [...]

“Dude” and the malleability of speech

“I’m still not a dude,” my mother often reminds me. This is because I find it difficult to speak to her, or anyone else for that matter, without constantly saying it.
“Dude, where’d I put my keys?” “Dude, that show is awesome.” “Dude, I have like 165 pages of reading to do — for tomorrow!” “Dude, [...]

Edmonton Prolife

I tried to take pictures of the PORN NATION images all over campus, but with no luck. My digital camera appears to be busted. However, let us continue our tour of on-campus advertising with the lovely image on your left, from Edmonton Prolife. A friend of mine reminded me of this ad, which, as well [...]

Christianity: Boring, Untrue, Irrelevant?

University campuses are constantly plastered with advertisements: for beer, pubcrawls and bars, for used textbooks and exam prep sessions, for jobs and student groups. But it seems like the advertisements I see most of all are for religion.
Today I saw one which asked, “Christianity: Boring, Untrue, Irrelevant?” Well, Christianity is interesting, and it exists, so [...]