This is me before the storm of Winnipeg hit. (photos by Heather Witherden) I’m in the middle of my first Canadian Fringe tour in years. I pulled through the Valley of Despair (Winnipeg), and finally broke through the fog with a glowing...
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Suggesting that you use one of these for support during your sexual endeavor is particularly foolhardy. I appreciate the civic-mindedness of sex-tip writers. Surely it is for the benefit of their readers’ sex lives, and not to pad their weekly column spot,...
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See how much I hate flyering? Oh, god, how tortured I look. I stayed up late last night prepping for my Street Promo 101 workshop here in Calgary, basically just re-reading my e-booklet by the same name and making notes for what...
View MoreI know that my callers are possibly/probably/definitely lying, depending on what we’re talking about. The more illegal or messy or “extreme†their fantasy is, the less likely it is that they are doing it in real life. I have to behave as if I believed...
View MoreI’ve been systematically dismantling Terrible Sex Tips for over a year now, flagging, reading, and shredding all kinds of sex and relationship pieces in an effort to really pinpoint why they are crap. This research uniquely qualifies me to speak out about how to become...
View MoreMy surfer dude is one of my few callers who has ever referred to his partner in our conversations, not in a sexual way, but in a “hey, this person exists in my life, and she’s amazing, but I couldn’t tell her the sorts of...
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The opening to this piece, which was sourced from the web site Latina, suggests that Latino men are less willing to go down on the ladies than white men are. I have not heard this, but I know, from anecdotal and personal experience, that plenty...
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When the metal comes out, shit is getting real. He starts out his calls welcoming me into the gynecologist’s office, his voice so smarmy that it would make me laugh if his words weren’t so well chosen. I mean, he’s almost certainly...
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Earlier this week I received a friend request on Facebook. When I asked the person how they found me—standard operating procedure for years now—they said: “I found you from a picture on instagram, a friend of mine does a poet for hire busking thing in...
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