“But as long as I got a foot, I’ll kick booze! As long as I got a fist, I’ll punch it! And as long as I’ve got a tooth, I’ll bite it! And when I’m old and grey and toothless and bootless, I’ll gum it, till I go to heaven, and booze goes to hell!” Burt Lancaster is standing on a stage in the middle of Zenith (a fictional town that Sinclair Lewis created, if you’re curious) while saying these lines with a great deal of intensity as the prohibition-era …

At least temporarily, before the tempo leases you another exam, another test of your mental and physical mettle. A tempest of temporal cessation: that jubilation of patted backs and satisfaction of a job
done (period.)
over (exclamation!)
complete?
Disciples of Morrison spitting such dissonant finality at the world, denying all evidence to the contrary with lyrical vitriol, voodoo men and women with that magic feeling of dividing with no remainder.
Cyclicality follows these notions, you know. Sick of class, notes, paper copies of digital bits and bytes of nourishment you’ve forgotten yet again.
Did you learn …

As the University of Lethbridge prepares to say goodbye to the current Dean of Arts and Science Christopher Nicol, new applicants and prospective candidates have given presentations and interviews that were quietly reviewed by faculty members. Two candidates were selected from a host of applicants, including two Lethbridge professors, to come and present at the university in March. Dr. David Malloy of the University of Regina and Dr. Craig Cooper of Nipissing University arrived and presented on their chosen topics of research, as well as answered questions about their research …

In the old, pioneering days of Lethbridge, people came from all over Canada and the Old World to settle here. Back in those days, Lethbridge was known for its beer, its whisky, and its red-light district. Lethbridge was a bustling town in its youth, and anyone enterprising enough could make a living doing just about anything. One such enterprising young man was Billy Boucher (pronounced Boo-Shay) who came from a poor upbringing in the heart of a forest somewhere on the border between Ontario and Quebec. His dream was to …

Currently, I am conducting an interview for what will most likely be the most bizarre piece I will write for the Meliorist. The subject of the interview is the Opus, “the competing shadow paper to the Meliorist.” Its Editor-in-Chief is Olivier O’Brien, who has invited me to his office on the ninth level of U Hall. I’m surprised by the invitation; I’ve certainly never heard of this paper before. The competing shadow paper? That sounds like something straight out of bad fiction. Regardless, I feel compelled by my duty to …