Life Stories

These stories are divided into 2 sections.

Auto-biographical (comedy and lighthearted)
Auto-biographical (non-comedy and heavy).

Auto-biographical (comedy and lighthearted)

Sailing into Newfoundland on a Warship

Kensington Market Music Scene 2011-14ish ce and the Tragically Hip Guitar Off

High Art at the Dancers

The Boston Red Sox Break the Curse

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The Edmonton Elks Break the Slump

Behind the scenes with the 1996ce WWF Locker Room

Forgot to mention how kind Psycho Sid was to us. And that the booze was also used as a painkiller

New Orleans

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds at the Wang Theatre and a myriad of Dave Matthews Band lore and stories

The Edmonton Oilers, The Winnipeg Jets, and Gary Bettman and Wayne Gretzky (allegedly) trying to blow up the moon. (Part 1 pre game. Part 2 post.)

May the Fourth!

The Canada Winter Games National Championship and the McNary / Crosby rivalry

The Atlanta Airport / New York Marathon / Providence (Brown) and Boston / Brown, Washington trip

Part 1: Atlanta Airport and NYC

Part 2 : Providence and Boston

Part 3 Washington (crucially important note: while part of this travel / trip 3 part audio, this audio contains very serious and very sad discussion and should be considered as part of the second section of stories on this page below as clearly there is nothing funny or light hearted about it. As referenced in the audio about Arlington National Cemetery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmudiyah_rape_and_killings (should read here and sound in the audio as murder) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2007_abduction_of_United_States_soldiers_in_Iraq

An Ode to my friend Kurt

A Vegas Marathon

The “High” Holidays, the reverse Bike Theft, and other Toronto stories

Montreal

The Las Angeles Raccoon and Playing Guitar to a Bear in the Wild.

The trip to the land travel route between Africa and Europe (and elsewhere)

Funny Stories with my Grandpa

Brown 04-08ce

Auto-biographical (non-comedy and heavy)

The EA Strike and Volunteering

Boyle Street and the Petition for my Murdered Friend Rose

Volunteering in South Africa and youth teaching experiences.

The Translation.

Helping in the Jersey v Higgins case (otherwise known as the case about the death of the Gaudreau Brothers)

The Cat in the Hot Car

The Deer, the Mountie, the Hostel, New Orleans volunteering, and living in Montreal.

The night sleeping in the Montreal Subway and the Ottawa adventure

Writing a Prisoner

Baseball Cleanup

Activism after “Hockey Canada Scandal” verdict July 2025ce

The Girl From the North Country

Defending a Woman with my Body outside a clinic.

Clancy gets hit by a car

EBL

Hockey, choosing to not go pro, and my hockey experience at Brown University

Adventures in being not straight (some comedy)

On the Effects of “Bros Before Hoes” and other “Locker Room Talk”

A Lesson in Levelling Up

Nuclear Family

Fuckin guy steals all my best on the ground lines working there two winters, gets himself a position called buffalo circle keeper as the big dog of fundraising to toss on his resume and proceeds to flagrantly breach a multi million dollar contract leading to the guys who own the fourth most valuable sports franchise in the states or candada enacting a lawsuit where he’d be the key witness on the stand. (They settled) What happens? Most important shelter space in edmonton gets shut down and hundreds if not thousands die and more suffer