Pique'n Yer Interest

The list of athletes who've earned millions in mega contracts and endorsement deals only to wind up in financial ruin is about as long as one of Allen Iverson's oversized t-shirts.

My name is Braden and I'm from Saskatchewan. Nice to meet you. How are... things? I'm sorry, it's just such an odd thing, to write about yourself.

It now appears "highly, highly likely" that the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight 370 over the Indian Ocean last March was due to a catastrophic drop in air pressure, leading to oxygen starvation and loss of consciousness for all on board.

I loves me a good art gallery. As the mythologist Joseph Campbell once wrote: "Artists provide the contemporary metaphors that allow us to realize the transcendent, infinite, and abundant nature of being as it is.

I'm not ashamed to admit I've been consumed by all things O.J. Simpson-related since an early October day in 1995, when the principal of my elementary school took to the PA system to utter two simple, yet mystifying words: "Not guilty.

If you were like most kids, you would have looked in the mirror and said "Bloody Mary" five times — or at least been too scared to try it.

There was no warning.

On a drive into Whistler Village last week, a theory I was starting to formulate about the CBC finally gelled for me.

Coming from the heart of Double Double Country in southwestern Ontario, you can imagine my surprise upon arriving in Whistler nearly two years ago only to discover there was nary a Tim Horton's to be found.

If nothing else, The Flaming Lips are a wonderfully weird band that has spent decades rightfully earning the praise of music critics worldwide.