Section E: Published Articles

V8 Juice and Canadian unity

In 1994, during a crisis in Canadian unity, one food manufacturing company quietly stepped in to help ward off an imminent invasion from the United States. In this post we salute V8 Juice for helping to keep Canada a sovereign nation.

Chicken art and Canadian politics

By Frank Lee MeiDere March 5, 2012 20 Comments

At the end of “When Pookas attack,” I intended to link to an article I did back in 1997 called “Chicken art and Canadian unity” – a review on Rob Thompson’s art performance piece in which he protested treatment of commercially-bred chickens by putting two people in a cage for a week. But then I [...]

The Secret of Democracy

By Frank Lee MeiDere May 12, 2011 13 Comments

Sure, it’s been a while. Congratulations to MikeWJ on completing his thesis, to Ziva for finally putting her pussy on view, and to all the other bloggers I used to keep in touch with but have sorely neglected of late. I’ve uploaded the Sunday Comic series to a web comic hosting site, and also started [...]

Lorem Ipsum, anyone?

By Frank Lee MeiDere March 17, 2011 3 Comments

We’re moving at the end of April, I’m in transit from St. Catharines to Toronto half the time, and one of my classes is an experimental program involving twice the work, so I’ve been behind on stuff. But here’s a placeholder: a piece I did for the Standard. My title was, “Lorem Ipsum, anyone?” but [...]

St. Catharines traffic signals: crazy or insane. Discuss.

By Frank Lee MeiDere January 21, 2011 7 Comments

This is just my latest piece for the Standard. I’m sneaking it in as a blog post because I’ve not been posting much lately (and by “much,” or course, I mean “at all”). They changed my original title. I understand why, but I decided to sneak it back in here as the title of the [...]

Dual mileage with St. Catharines transit

By Frank Lee MeiDere November 25, 2010 11 Comments

The latest of my pieces in The Standard came out today, so I’m using it as a kind of post while trying to get back into the blogging habit. Transiting St. Catharines One of the hardest things about moving to St. Catharines was finding our way around. No matter where we wanted to go, we [...]

The importance of “last times”

By Frank Lee MeiDere August 25, 2009 12 Comments

The three of us formed a tight little group back in high school: Ian, George and me. “The Mod Squad,” they called us, although our little trinity contained neither blacks nor females. Still, as witticisms went, it was certainly better than some of the others we faced. “Are you gay?” one young tough sneered [...]