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Porkpie Hat – Dog and Fish

I was walking one day past a vacant lot beside a vacant factory on the outskirts of a vacant city. There was this big red dog staring at me from the shadows. Its hair was the colour of dried blood and crumbling brick, rusted bicycle chains and disused railway lines. It was so silent and… Read more »

Music To Eat Lunch To – Fallout Boy: Folie à Deux

Release date: December 16, 2008 Label: Island Tracks: 13 Rating: 3 Fallout Boy, initially grouped into the same genre as virtually every one-hit wonder, so-called pop-punk band, has done a great job of staying afloat these past few years and making a name for themselves that extends past the original label. With poppy, tentatively thrashy… Read more »

From Where I Sit – Go Lightly

At this moment in our house there are four pieces of luggage littering the hallway. They will become our ticket out of town, out of this wretched winter. In November we were all quite smug in Alberta as one unseasonably warm day stretched into another until before we knew it the whole month had become… Read more »

Porkpie Hat – What You Should Know

Excuse me, Sir. I don’t mean to be disrespectful, and I don’t mean to be rude. But there are some things you ought to be aware of. You should know, for example, that the brain of that moth that you never would have noticed, the one squashed on the grill of your Mercedes SUV, is… Read more »