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Sad Mag launches issue two on December 17. Until then, we’re releasing sneak peeks from the new issue.
“In Ghana, there are many more poets who are just throwing politics at you without apology. Here, if we do that, we apologize a lot or we cloud it with some artifice. There, they’ll just say right in the middle of the poem, ‘and the President is a really lousy guy.’ We don’t get that.”
— Rob Taylor, as told to Deanne Beattie
Winter 2009, ISSUE TWO
Sad Mag launches issue two on December 17. Until then, we’re releasing sneak peeks from the new issue.
It’s okay with prOphecy sun if you’re a little frightened by her music. Her creations can be uncomfortable, difficult, at times discordant and “not always pretty.” But that’s exactly the point: “If I’m not going there and challenging myself,” she explains, “I might as well stop, because it’s not really authentic.”
— Michelle Reid
Winter 2009, ISSUE TWO
Sad Mag launches issue two on December 17. Until then, we’re releasing sneak peeks from the new issue.
If you have to get the flu, H1N1 is the strain to get. Not only is it no more dangerous than the regular sick-day flu, but you also get to have the most fashionable virus around. Swine Flu is pretty much the American Apparel of things that give you diarrhea.
— Graham Templeton
Winter 2009, ISSUE TWO
Sad Mag launches issue two on December 17. Until then, we’re releasing sneak peeks from the new issue.
“Vancouver has this standoffishness that can be cliquey—people are aspirational but protective of what they’ve got,” notes Caleb, “I find that attitude is really easily disarmed by just going ‘Hey, what’s up? Why are you being weird to me … we could probably do something fun together.'”
— Caleb Beyers, As told to Shaun Inouye and Lindsay Wiens
Winter 2009, ISSUE TWO
Sad Mag launches issue two on December 17. Until then, we’re releasing sneak peeks from the new issue.
When I moved into Cambie Village, which is roughly bookended by Broadway and King Edward Avenue, there were a disillusioning number of empty storefronts with “For Lease” signs in the windows and orange pylons were a semi-permanent fixture along the roads and sidewalks. One of my favourite used bookstores, Kestrel Books, was mere months away from relocating to Kitsilano and much of their stock was reduced for clearance. I scoured the shelves with a mild sense of guilt about the fact that by acquiring these books at a fraction of their cost, I was losing something more important.
—Melissa Sawatsky
Winter 2009, ISSUE TWO
Sad Mag launches issue two on December 17. Until then, we’re releasing sneak peeks from the new issue.
We’re so close we call each other incestors,” Chanté says. They discuss how people often mistake their intimacy for a romantic relationship.
“When we’re out the bartender will say, ‘Your girlfriend already ordered you a shot’ and I say, ‘No, that’s my sister,'” Danielle laughs.
“And they don’t mean girlfriend as in, my girl friend. They mean lesbian lover,” adds Chanté.
— Villainy Loveless and Lola Frost, as told to Rebecca Slaven
Winter 2009, ISSUE TWO
Sad Mag launches issue two on December 17. Until then, we’re releasing sneak peeks from the new issue.
So the provincial government has announced its plans to clear-cut funding to the arts over the next few years. From a projected $42 million in 2009/2010 to just over $3.5 million heading into 2012—that’s a loss of roughly ninety percent, a true decimation.
Yeah, well, big whoop. Arts cuts? More like farts cuts.
— Michael Hingston
Winter 2009, ISSUE TWO
Sad Mag launches issue two on December 17. Until then, we’re releasing sneak peeks from the new issue.
I started collecting around the time that I was eight years old: lighting fixtures, door hardware, and plumbing fixtures—top of the line stuff from 1850 to about 1920. My parents thought I was crazy. I remember literally breaking into houses and stealing doorknobs and lights, but that was at a time when the houses that were derelict were just derelict and no one cared.
— Robert McNutt, As told to Justin Mah
Winter 2009, ISSUE TWO
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“With my second child I was in labour at bingo,” she recounts. “I had contractions. I was among other mothers who were breathing with me. They were all yelling at the caller, ‘She’s gonna have a baby for fuck’s sake! B8!’”
— Burcu Ozdemir, as told by Stephanie Orford
FALL 2009, ISSUE ONE
“When problems come up, just face it and don’t give up. One should be hardworking, kind and honest; this is my personal philosophy.”
— Jessie Li, as told by Justin Mah
FALL 2009, ISSUE ONE