KNOX – Well-known B.C. sports writer Jim Taylor was a childhood hero
“NOBODY WANTS to do funny anymore,” Jim Taylor would say, every time we talked. “They’re all so serious.” I would respond by furrowing my brow and nodding seriously [Continue]
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KNOX – Even a map dowser couldn’t turn up winning $1 million lotto ticket
THIS HURTS. Hurts almost as much as Canada’s loss to Finland in the world juniors. Worse, if you’re a lottery player. A $1-million lottery ticket that was sold in [Continue]
KNOX – Yes, you’re in Canada, and Victoria is a hockey town
DEAR HOCKEY FANTS/ PARTISANS du jeu de la dipsy-doodle, On behalf of Canada/le grand pink bit sur la map, I would like to welcome/bienvenue you to Victoria, home to the world [Continue]
KNOX – A Christmas story in need of a happy ending
I MISS STUART McLEAN. Or, rather, I miss Dave and Morley, the characters the late CBC Radio storyteller created for The Vinyl Cafe. I miss them even though Dave, an unmade [Continue]
KNOX – And the award for the most abused word ever goes to…… awesome!
AWESOME IS AWFUL. “A perfectly good word rendered meaningless by everyone using it all the time when so many other words would be more suitable,” opined Lori Hamilton of [Continue]
KNOX – A month after legalization, the feared potocalypse has yet to appear
THE MORNING AFTER Canada legalized recreational marijuana, I ran into Tommy Chong at the Victoria airport. Knowing the 80-year-old pot icon had flown in the day before for an [Continue]
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