Crossed My Mind

Hard to believe that it is end of term already. It is time to relax and enjoy your holidays if you have them or time to work your butt off with your Christmas internships. Whatever you’re doing on your holidays have some fun before the big shake up where you have to leave your friends and prepare for the magazine project. Have fun at the After School Special! ...

Coronation Street is the world’s longest running soap opera and a great one at that. If I can help it, at 6:30 I am watching Corrie. When I can’t catch it during the week CBC plays the weeks worth on Sunday morning. I have been a Corrie fan for ten years and what I love are the characters are just ordinary people who do not wake up in the morning with perfect hair and makeup like the men and women on American ...

Some of the best gifts are the small ones in your stocking.Here are some ideas for stocking stuffers (a.k.a. what to put in my stocking). 1) Silly Putty. Why wouldn’t I want Silly Putty?2) Chocolates are always a safe bet. I won’t be turning down chocolate. No way, Jose. 3) Gift cards. A student like myself sure could use a Tims card for those early Monday and Tuesday morning 8 a.m. classes. 4) Lip balm. Stocking ...

I am constantly being blown away by how talented Ryan Gosling is. I wish I could see his new movie filmed alongside Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine, right now. Blue Valentine is about a married couple, Dean and Cindy, and their relationship over a few years. I need to see it. Check out the trailer.  Ryan Gosling isn't just actor, but also a singer. Gosling formed a band with his friend ...

I would not recommend breaking your ankle in CreComm. Just don’t do it, it isn’t wise. A broken ankle in CreComm means that I have to get up earlier in the mornings just so I will be able to catch my bus (if I miss the first one, I can forget about the transfer). It means that when I want to leave my apartment I have to really want to leave. I have to plan if the buses are easy access, how much walking there will ...

It would be fair to say that the majority of people don’t know how their bodies work, what’s going on inside them, or how complex they actually are. For the people that are curious about their body and want an intimate look at our human anatomy, they can check out BODIES… The Exhibition at the MTS Centre Exhibition Hall located at 311 Portage Avenue across from the MTS Centre. Making its Winnipeg debut on September ...

No last words because I forgot them.  Live Hit Derby is something that all CreComm students have to do. It is when you have 10 minutes to look over a story that is brand new to you, from there you are put in front of a camera where you have one chance and one chance only to deliver your story. It is harder than it sounds.  I crutched up and told my story on Canadian charities.  I didn’t do as well as I had hoped and stumbled a few of my words to say the least. What crossed my mind at live hit derby: 1) A charities story? I’ve got this in the bag.2) What! Three minutes until I am on? I don’t got this at all.3) How can my mind be blank? Where is that piece of paper? 4) ...

Short Story Review for THE YELLOW by Samantha Hunt Samantha Hunt is a writer and artist. According to Random House Australia, Hunt has just won the new “5 under 35” award from the 2006 National Book Awards. She has been published in The New Yorker and McSweeney’s among others, been featured on “This American Life” and has had her short fiction nominated for a Pushcart Prize and included in the anthology “This is Not ...

Audrhea Lande, Winnipeg author of Annie’s Bright Idea, is a former teacher and principal with a knack for writing. About five years ago Lande started to write a story that her mother used to tell her and her siblings when they were young. At the time, she didn’t know it, but the story that her mother told her had been a true one. The back cover of the book describes it as "a true Christmastime adventure. ...

I have sent out Christmas cards for eleven years but that ends now.  What crossed my mind when I decided to not send Christmas cards anymore.  1) Are my family and friends who have been receiving cards from me for eleven years think that this is my attempt at being a Scrooge?2) I shouldn't worry about it. Maybe I'll just have some egg nog.3) Mariah Carey might consider stop singing Christmas carols. 4) ...

1. This gown isn't exactly flattering. 2. After not being able to eat for a day my roommate gets beef barley soup? Come on. 3. At least my roommate says funny things when asked to lay down. Things like, "what do I look like, some kind of whore? 4. All I want is a burger and all I get is water. 5. At least I am by a window. Oh wait, that's a view of another building. Sup ...

I blog to you mildly outraged at the service of Winnipeg's bus rapid transit. I know, join the club. But hear me out. I take a 65 at 8:05 to school which usually stops at the doors of Red River College; today the bus stopped two blocks before the school where I was informed that it was the last stop. I wouldn't usually complain about walking the two extra blocks to school, except I have a broken ankle and am on crutches, which makes it extremely difficult to get around anywhere. As I waited for my walk sign, the bus took off with it's Not In Service sign on. I witnessed the bus roll in front of the school and stop for a red light. The bus stopped right in front of the stop that I would normally ...

                                              Disintegration - Luke Chueh              Paramjeet put on thick itchy woollen socks and too much Old Spice to cover up other smells. His apartment smelt like cat piss and curry even though he didn’t have a cat or eat curry. Paramjeet ...

Facebook is everywhere. Chances are that all of your friends have a Facebook account. There may be one or two that don’t, but you wonder why they don’t when your dad has one. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I sat down to watch The Social Network but I didn’t expect the movie to portray Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg as an asshole; the movie showed a selfish Zuckerberg ruthlessly backstabbing his only friend, Eduardo Saverin. It was a bad move on his part, but the way I think of it, he does own the company and did come up with the idea. So he can do whatever the hell he wants, even be a dick. Facebook is so immensely popular that it just makes sense that there would be a movie ...