Khan in the elevator

Khan has a tendency to follow me around. Recently he’s mustered the courage to follow me out the door and into the hallway of my building. I make sure this only happens during the night as this ...

Personal

Nathaniel Christopher / 10 April 2008 / 2 Comments

My very first “article”

I always thought the first thing I published was back in 1993. It was an article about the dangers of pets eating Christmas ornaments. I recently discovered that I had actually published somethi...

Reflections and Opinions

Nathaniel Christopher / 5 April 2008 / 3 Comments

Old people

Old people take so long in lines I get these really bad heart palpitations from time to time. It’s excruciatingly painful. Thanks to universal healthcare I’m able to get pills to ease the ...

Nathaniel Christopher / 3 April 2008 / 1 Comment

Conservative homophobes

Ever since they came to power a couple of years ago the Conservatives have been working overtime to conceal their extremist, right wing image. Every so often, however, and it’s happening more an...

Nathaniel Christopher / 31 March 2008 / 2 Comments

Ouch

I was talking to my father’s cousin today. I’m in the process of proving my US citizenship through my father. I need to prove that he lived in the States for a certain period of time. So, ...

Nathaniel Christopher / 30 March 2008 / 4 Comments

Coastal Renaissance

Well, I was in Nanaimo over the weekend to visit friends and attend a fundraising concert on Gabriola Island for my foster mom Jo-Anne Fowler. That was awesome. On the way home I sailed on the Coastal...

Nathaniel Christopher / 27 March 2008

Rally held to protest US HIV ban

About two dozen people gathered at the Vancouver Art Gallery Mar 16 to protest the US ban on HIV-positive travellers, and to support a bill now making its way through the US Senate to repeal the ban. ...

Personal

Nathaniel Christopher / 22 March 2008

Spring cleaning!

Okay, I’ve been writing for newspapers for a very long time. I keep back issues of everything I’ve ever written for… Over the years I’ve accumulated so many newspapers, magazin...

Personal

Nathaniel Christopher / 20 March 2008 / 2 Comments

Wash that Newfoundland right out of your hair for only $10!

I am no longer a Newfoundlander. I officially renounced my citizenship yesterday. When my father moved to Canada in the early ‘70s he came without paperwork as an illegal immigrant. He assumed the las...

Personal

Nathaniel Christopher / 17 March 2008 / 1 Comment

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

People always say you have to wear green on St. Patty’s day, but when I lived in Peterborough, Ontario someone told me that you can also wear Orange. Catholics wore green and Protestants wore or...