Margo licked at her teeth incessantly. Though that they were her teeth was debateable. They resided in her mouth and were used to chew her food for later digestion, but they hadn’t grown naturally from her gums, their maintenance and care would be trusted to a team of technicians and she hadn’t even been...
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A brief snapshot of Canada as of this writing: the long, cold, brutal winter is en route (except for those in Vancouver, and that ain’t really Canada), our governments at all levels are either incompetent, corrupt, crazy, or evil, and it looks like we’ll finish up 2012 with no NHL. This may be the...
Read more →This week, the Barnstormer stalwarts are joined by Alex Wong — creator of the sports blog Steven Lebron, who we highly recommend following on Twitter here — to discuss Dwight Howard, dissect the Olympic cadaver, commiserate over the possibility of no hockey, and consider the perfection of King Felix. DWIGHT HOWARD DEAL Forbes —...
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THE OLYMPICS ARE OVER. As the Spice Girls reminded us why the ‘90s were a wasteland of contrived “music” and The Who belted out CSI theme songs, we bid adieu to the Games of the 30th Olympiad. The Olympic flag was lowered and presented to Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes, who as per...
Read more →What did we learn this week? Well, that Kerry Fraser and figure skating don’t own a monopoly on bad officiating, that NBC has become their own unwatchable sitcom, the Second Amendment kills people, and that hate and ignorance don’t know the difference between Sikhs and Muslims. Darren Bifford, author of Wedding in Fire Country,...
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The following is part of our O Sport! Olympic poetry series in partnership with Poets and the News. Of the four of us I was to be charming Margaret: the princess girl who is attacked in a marvelous green forest by two grade four boys behaving like murderous men So we crumpled newspaper into stage props...
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