Lit Matters: Marian Engel bears it all“Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through change that we pretend that we can make decisions, and keep our pride,” wrote Marian Engel, a Canadian novelist who was very much interested in stories of personal change. Engel […] Continue Reading |
The Bi-weekly Gamer: A struggle against the metaBack in November, I wrote an article on Guild Wars 2 and the then-newly released expansion pack. Since then, many fixes and updates have been dumped on the player base. Two big changes are the revamp of player-vs.-player (PvP) ranked matches and Elite Specializations, which aim to allow players to explore new ways to play […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: Paul Auster’s identity collage“Reality is a great deal more mysterious than we ever give it credit for,” said Paul Auster, an American novelist, essayist, and translator who is probably best known for his existential detective novels, collected as The New York Trilogy. Auster, who began writing in the early ’80s, is impossible to pin to a single genre. […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: Nicolle Brossard on making sense out of reality“Before I became a feminist, I suppose I was an angel, a poet, a revolutionary,” wrote Nicolle Brossard, a Quebec poet, novelist, and essayist who has written more than 30 books since she began publishing in the 1960s. Along with numerous other awards she’s won, she’s taken home the Governor General’s Award for poetry twice, […] Continue Reading |
The Functional Traveller: A journey into AokigaharaWith the advent of a terribly inaccurate Hollywood film, and a more respectfully documented Vice short, I thought the time was right to explore a Japanese topic that many people are curious about: Aokigahara, also known as the Suicide Forest. I recently went there with a friend under the premise of an anthropological expedition. This […] Continue Reading |
A message from the Camosun College Student Society: Clubs: the perfect side dish for your educationThe Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) is dedicated to providing advocacy, services, and student life on campus. We are in a constant state of change, re-evaluating our policies each year to ensure we keep up to date with the needs of our members. Last semester we re-imagined our clubs policy to better equate the disbursement […] Continue Reading |
The Bi-weekly Gamer: Smiting the oppositionAlthough not League of Legends, the mythical-god-centered MOBA Smite stands out with its own unique style of gameplay, which has led to it being quite a popular game. Recently, Smite wrapped up its own world championship tournament. Starting with best-of-one matches, lesser teams were quickly eliminated by the superior teams, all fighting for a shot […] Continue Reading |
The Functional Traveller: The best of both worldsIndividuality is definitely a factor in Japanese culture. It’s expressed in the confines of a group an individual associates with, contributing to a subculture community. However, there are certain boundaries limiting what is socially acceptable “self-definition.” First, one must be Japanese. As a largely homogeneous culture, you must first fit inside the box before you […] Continue Reading |
The Bi-weekly Gamer: The Wild West of the off-seasonComing off of two major events in the League of Legends e-sports scene, a large majority of the top professional teams saw drastic changes to their rosters. Here are a few that had the most impact. Starting off in the Korean league, world champions SKTelecom said goodbye to three of their players: Lee “Easyhoon” Ji-hoon, […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: The poetic architectures of Anne Carson“In surfaces, perfection is less interesting,” said Anne Carson, an internationally renowned poet and classical scholar originally from Ontario. “For instance,” she went on, “a page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.” Tea stains or no, any page with a poem […] Continue Reading |
