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Melania: When Emptiness Gets a Standing Ovation. A Review From Canada.
A review of a film I refused to see, and the audience that revealed everything anyway from a rain soaked island where reality still has consequences.
Feb 25 • Hans Casteels
The Canadian Finger
By Hans Casteels, watching a nation spiral into moral panic over a curling finger touching the wrong part of a rock, feeling an immediate and deeply…
Feb 20 • Hans Casteels
A View From Canada National Emergency Declared: Canada Loses at Its Own Sport (Again, But This Time to the Americans)
By Hans Casteels, Belgian by birth, professional observer of national absurdities, lifelong supporter of doomed sports teams, and reluctant witness to…
Feb 19 • Hans Casteels
Mr. Goldfinger
By Hans Casteels, lamenting why and how a she song that was meant as entertainment has become commentary.
Feb 15 • Hans Casteels
In The News Today, From Canada With Love
Dispatches from a news cycle that has clearly stopped taking its medication.
Feb 14 • Hans Casteels
Half a Bridge Too Far
By Hans casteels, watching international infrastructure get treated like a yard sale item with nuclear implications
Feb 11 • Hans Casteels
Should Canada Be Nuclear Bomb Curious?
Hans Casteels Blowing His Mind
Feb 10 • Hans Casteels
The Frog Who Accidentally Woke Europe
By Hans Casteels. Unpaid Observer to the Great Continental Awakening
Feb 9 • Hans Casteels
WORLD HELD HOSTAGE BY LOUD IDIOTS ON BOTH SIDES, WE’VE ALL GONE MAD. TRULY MAD
Idiocy? Idiocy, it seems, is bipartisan.
Feb 7 • Hans Casteels
Corporatism and Fascism Are the Same Thing. So Why Are Americans Still Arguing About Trump?
By Hans Casteels, unpaid consultant to the Board of Global Decline
Feb 6 • Hans Casteels
Auto-Brewery Syndrome: When Your Gut Opens a Bar
An unauthorized fermentation story By Hans Casteels
Feb 5 • Hans Casteels
Words With Their Pants Down
By Hans Casteels, multilingual survivor of the vowel wars, currently hootin and hollerin somewhere between the winkel and the whoopee.
Feb 3 • Hans Casteels
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