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Soy Chicken and BBQ Pork on Rice with Attitude

I’ve just returned from Toronto where I spent a few days attending MagNet, an industry conference, doing some work, hitting up the latest Literary Death Match (I was a judge at the one in Montreal) and then hosting the National Magazine Awards (I’m President of the NMAF, the body that runs the show; what this […]

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100,000 people with nothing better to do…

That’s unfair. That’s very unfair of me and I am grateful to each and every one of them. Yesterday at some point, I passed 100,000 followers on Twitter. My follower number is not something I obsess over too much but any way you look at it, a number like 100,000 is a milestone of some […]

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This Is the World

I’m in Hong Kong on my way home from Kuala Lumpur. This is for work, for the bill paying day job I have that is a good enough kind of job so that sometimes I get to go to places like Kuala Lumpur to stay in nice hotels and eat great food and suffer from […]

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Why Oh Why?

I don’t know why I write. Not a clue. Why would anyone want to subject themselves to such an endeavor? It is hard work, it is not a pathway to riches, it can ruin you like a cold river on a blistery day. More people give up doing this every day and perhaps they are […]

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My first blog post ever

This is my first ever blog post. Anywhere. Am I doing it right? Let me just say thanks for stopping by. It means a lot to me that you would come here and tool around the site. I know you’re busy and I appreciate your time. No, really. I do. I’m not being glib or […]

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