Selected shorter pieces

Four movie reviews | The Georgia Straight

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Reviews of Biloxi Blues, Housekeeping, Gaby-A True Story, and Willow.

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I wrote 2-4 reviews a week for the Straight for many years.

The Four Faces of Pam | Vancouver  magazine

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This 1996 article on dating through personal ads has stuck around longer than anything else I've written, thanks mainly to Alex Waterhouse-Hayward's brilliant photos of my personal-ad personae: Physical Me, Active Me, Spiritual Me, and Basic Me. 

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For Spiritual Me, he asked me to channel the hippies of my youth. I found that pretty easy. For Basic Me, he asked me to look "so smart that men's testicles would shrink up into their throats." I found that pretty easy too. 

NBA column | The Toronto Star

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The Star hired me to write up a weekly report on the doings of the new Grizzlies franchise.