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Imagine a person you’ve never met before, yet you’ve seen them hundreds, maybe even thousands of times. You know their age, their relationship history, where they’re from, how much they earned on their last job, perhaps even their weight. They, on the other hand, have neither seen nor heard of you before. You are a […]

I fell off my bike the other day. I was riding the wrong way down Elizabeth St. and unaware of the large pothole looming before me. When my wheel hit the edge of it, off I tumbled. Luckily I rolled with the fall and only ended up feeling a little bruised. Like a fool, I […]

I have been bartending for a long time; longer than I ever expected, in fact. And during that time, I’ve seen many things. Things both sublime and ridiculous, tragic and trivial, horrific and hilarious. And that was just on Saturday nights. The unwritten code of the bartender calls for great discretion regarding what we see […]