Archive for October, 2011
Not long after Never Shoot a Stampede Queen was published, one-man-show sensation TJ Dawe called. He wanted to know if I was interested in adapting the book for the stage. After we met I discovered that he’d read the script for a production of an earlier incarnation of my crazy Cariboo tales that my friend [...]
I know there was a preseason. I tried to care. I read the sports headlines. But I didn’t read the stories. I saw that Owen Nolan was trying out for the team. I saw that he was cut. I know Christian Ehrhoff made a lot of free agent money and is now playing for… some [...]
(A version of this story was originally published in The Vancouver Sun in 1997 when Clifford Olson was applying for parole under Canada’s “faint hope” clause. I’ve resisted the temptation to update it — although if I can find a piece I wrote about how Olson changed Vancouver for the uglier I’ll post that too.) [...]