by Erin MacNair | Mar 18, 2014 | The Baffling, Welcome
Oh, glorious Sky Mall Magazine! Sweet abandoner of airplane boredom. Take me into thine fold of trashy junk I cannot live without. Thank you for always being there, Sky Mall. Just when I thought I would die of asphyxiation, my knees jammed against the seat in front of...
by Erin MacNair | Jan 30, 2014 | Public Service Announcements, The Baffling
Like many of you, I have an email for crap, and one for lesser crap. The junky one can be quite hilarious; the filter must be set low and all sort of interesting things come in. Deals for vent cleaning, lipo-laser hair removal, Dr. Oz’s miracle somethingorother, etc....
by Erin MacNair | Apr 4, 2013 | The Baffling, Welcome
Why do things break? While you ponder that profound question, I’ll give you a few answers. Because it wasn’t put together properly, because the laws of physics/gravity/erosion/time were applied and ate away the material, because it was made in China by an enslaved...
by Erin MacNair | Mar 1, 2013 | The Baffling, Welcome
It’s the end of the world! Maybe! You never know! Okay, so the Mayan’s didn’t have it right, we should have seen that coming. After all, they certainly didn’t have a problem when white men in large hats came traipsing in. No alarm bells rang for the Shamans and Holy...
by Erin MacNair | Feb 5, 2013 | The Baffling, Welcome
I was at the rec centre pool the other day, when a guy walked past in some very tight trunks. I wasn’t looking at his trunks, believe it or not, but his tattoos, which held all the old familiar phrases and bands of my youth, etched across his slender frame. He’s my...
by Erin MacNair | Jan 14, 2013 | The Baffling, Welcome
I knew it was going to happen before it happened. It might have had something to do with the Mom, who knelt in front of her pale child and said, “If your stomach hurts, sweetie, come back and tell Mommy.” She then sent her kid off to our first community centre soccer...
