Love & hate mail index
Here you’ll find columns that recieved interesting responses from readers, usually negative. Their letters are included after each piece.
I was broke. I needed money. I prostituted myself for science.
Medieval artists loved nothing more than to inflict suffering on poor ol’ Jesus Christ. But has He suffered enough? Part 8 of Wasting My Youth in Prague.
How did I live over 25 years and not learn that hairdressers expect to be tipped?
My disgruntled penis takes on one of the world’s leading condom manufacturers. A Goliath-versus-Goliath story.
Or “Everything I need to know about sex I learned at church rummage sales”. Warning: contains demonic rape!
A looming public transit strike triggers fond (and not so fond) memories of a decade riding Vancouver buses. This column got me publicly censured for racism by the paper’s editors.
When the Campus Crusade for Christ carries crosses around the university to promote a Christian rock concert, I respond with this snot-nosed news brief.
Angst and self-loathing collide on the dimly-lit road to my high-school reunion. Features a response from possibly my most out-of-it reader.
Ever had a bipolar, patholigically-lying, nymphomaniac roommate who attacked you with a knife? I have. Part 1 of Memoirs of a recovering ex-roommate.
That whole “guy goes out on a date with a girl who turns out to be a dude” thing is an urban legend, right? Wrong. Part 4 of I met her on the Internet.
I get hold of a discount coupon—for sex. Talk about putting the ‘ass’ in ‘crass commercialism’!
Once upon a time, in a more innocent world, it was fun to antagonize Muslims. Part 4 of Confessions of a student journalist.
When a comic-strip heroine gets spanked, a campus witch-hunt ensues. Warning: contains the worst kind of pornography! Part 6 of Confessions of a student journalist.