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Peak Publications Society Board of Directors Meeting Agenda

June 18, 2015

The Peak Offices

 

Chair: Max Hill

In attendance:

Editor-in-Chief, Max Hill

Collective Representative, Melissa Roach

At-Large Representative, Natalie Serafini

Employee Representative, Katherine Gillard

Maia Odegaard (Board Secretary, non-voting)

  1. Approval of Agenda
  2. Approval of past minutes from May 21, 2015
  3. Investment update
    Maia to report on the status of the Society’s investments.  See appendix A.
  4. Financial update
    Maia Odegaard to summarize the Society’s finances through May 31, 2015. See appendix B.
  5. 50th anniversary  update

Maia and Katherine to update the Board on The Peak’s 50th anniversary reunion plans.

  1.  Election of new collective representative

Leah Bjornson has now officially resigned from The Peak Board of Directors. Max will bring up the election of a new collective representative on The Peak’s week 8 collective meeting, to be elected at the week 9 meeting on Wednesday, July 1.

  • Adjournment

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Peak Publications Society Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

May 21, 2015, 5:00 p.m.

The Peak offices

In attendance:

Editor-in-Chief, Max Hill

Collective Representative, Melissa Roach

At-Large Representative, Natalie Serafini

Employee Representative, Katherine Gillard

Board Secretary, Maia Odegaard (non-voting)

Guest, Brad McLeod

Regrets:

Collective Representative, Leah Bjornson

 

  • Called to order: 5:04 p.m.
  • Approval of agenda

 

Melissa/Natalie

 

  • Approval of meeting minutes from April 30, 2015

 

Melissa/Natalie

 

  • Investment update

 

Maia Odegaard outlined the Society’s investment account growth, with the overall portfolio value having gone up year to date, but the Market value having gone down $4,085.31 since March 31, 2015.

 

  • Financial update

 

Maia presented the final budget outcome from the spring semester, with the total revenue $4,767.88 higher than predicted, even though student assessments were $5,944.38 lower than projected. Total expenses were $12,818.57 under budget, despite improper budgeting for the Associated Collegiate Press conference, as the prices were quoted in USD.

 

  • Website update

 

The company contracted to restore the-peak.ca’s database, Raize, seemed to have hit a wall in regards to getting the site back up and running, so Maia asked David Proctor, creator of the WordPress theme and former Business Manager, to step in and complete the task.

 

  • Contributor pay policy amendment

 

Humour Editor, Jacey Gibb, asked that the Board approve an amendment to the current contributor pay policy as outlined below:

Be it resolved to amend the “Contributor Pay Policy” document, items 2. b) ii and iii to read:

iiI. “$20 per simple illustration, graphic, ​ or single panel comics generally defined as those taking less than an hour to produce;”

  1. “$30 for all other illustrations, graphics​, or multi-panel comics​​”​

​Whereas the current pay policy doesn’t specifically include comics, but the current rate is $10 per comic without taking size thereof into consideration.​

Whereas comic artists can spend multiple hours on one comic and the remuneration should ​reflect both the size of the end result and the effort put into it.

Melissa/Katherine

All in favour

 

  • Board meeting time for the summer semester

 

The Board will meet on the third Thursday of each month at 5:00 p.m. during the summer semester, unless otherwise decided upon to accommodate everyone’s schedule. This meeting time will be posted in the Classifieds section of The Peak on Monday, May 25, 2015.

 

  • Reunion update

 

Maia and Katherine Gillard, The Peak’s Promotions Coordinator, have been working steadily on plans for the 50th anniversary reunion celebration. The Highland Pub has been booked for Thursday, August 13, and Katherine is in contact with the pub’s manager regarding menu options for a BBQ and whether we’d like to have the event held on the patio or inside the pub. The T-shirt design contest is currently ongoing until June 5th, and once we have received all submissions, we can vote on a winning design. The invite list made up of past Peakies currently has approximately 60 email addresses and counting. We should be sending out a hard invite in the next few weeks.

 

  • Board representative for Tartan hiring panel

 

The Board appointed Melissa Roach as its representative on the Tartan hiring panel.

 

  • Addition from Max: hiring stipend for the Tartan

 

Max Hill proposed that those involved in hiring the three staff members for the pilot magazine project, the Tartan, receive a hiring stipend similar to that alotted to the hiring panel for The Peak editors: $50 for The Peak’s EIC, $200 for the Managing Editor of the Tartan, and $0 for the Board Representative. These funds will be taken from The Peak’s wage budget.

Natalie/Melissa

All in favour

 

  • Adjournment 5:30 p.m.

 

Approved by ________________________________ & __________________________________ on April 9, 2015.

How Canada can mend relationships with Aboriginals

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The children in residential schools suffered severe abuse and neglect. - Photo courtesy of Truth and Reconciliation Commission

After spending six years listening to testimonies across the country from nearly 7,000 residential school survivors, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released a final report on June 2 that outlines measures by which Canada can fully mend its relationship with the Aboriginal Peoples.

The 360-page document recounts stories of Aboriginal children taken from their parents, and the abuse these children faced in residential schools.

The report provides 94 recommendations for amendments in government, communities, churches, schools, and Aboriginal municipalities, ranging from government policy and programs to the simple way Canadians interact with each other.

The Commission uses the establishment of residential schools as the main the basis for the report, and confronts Canada on the “cultural genocide” inflicted upon Indigenous communities across the country.

Among the many suggestions, the report cites the creation of a national Centre and Council for Truth and Reconciliation, the implementation of Aboriginal health-care rights, the creation of new legislation for indigenous languages and education, as well as an inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women, a statutory holiday to honour those who attended residential schools, and the implementation of the UN Declaration of Indigenous Peoples.

“If you were to ask people at SFU who the local First Nations are, probably 80 per cent of the students here couldn’t tell you.”

William Lindsay,

Director for the Office of Aboriginal Peoples at SFU

The Commission now calls for political parties to take action over words, and implement these strategies into their regimes.

SFU professor of public policy, Doug McArthur, told The Vancouver Sun that one of the most important things now “is for our provincial and federal governments [. . .] to respond to this report and to clearly indicate [. . .] that they do understand what this report is all about. The next step [. . .] is to take action around education, healthy communities, and those sorts of issues.”

In particular, the Commission emphasizes “education” as a main course of action in “closing the gap” between between the First Peoples and the country.

In an interview with CBC on June 2, head of the Commission, Justice Murray Sinclair, emphasized the imbalance between educational funding and the accomplishments of Aboriginal students, claiming that “education is the the key to reconciliation because we need to look at the way we are educating our children.”

The Peak sat down with William Lindsay, Director for the Office of Aboriginal Peoples at SFU, to discuss the education of First Nations issues at the secondary and postsecondary levels.

“There has to be education about the First Peoples,” he continued. “In particular, local peoples, because if you were to ask people at SFU who the local First Nations are, probably 80 per cent of the students here couldn’t tell you.”

“Right now the high school kids get bits and pieces. [. . .] They have a grade 12 course [on First Peoples] that’s an elective in British Columbia, but isn’t [a course] they have to take.”

Lindsay noted the recent work that SFU has undertaken with both the TRC and Reconciliation Canada, in implementing the university’s Aboriginal Strategic Plan. He referenced SFU’s recent residential school education week in February of 2013, and other subsequent workshops held at the university on the issue.

Then turning his focus to the future, Lindsay commented, “The Faculty of Education and First Nations Studies are doing an excellent job at educating students, but it’s something that could done better across the university. My office will be working for the next year on developing some in-house Aboriginal awareness workshops [. . .] designed for the staff and faculty.”

Cinephilia: Greg is an unlikely hero in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

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If Me and Earl and the Dying Girl were a person, I would wrap my arms around them and squeeze as hard as I could. Based on a single viewing, this is one of the most affecting and lovely films I’ve ever seen. It’s funny, sad, touching, and profound. It also subverts almost every expectation while reinventing tropes I’ve seen a million times, making it that much more unpredictable and moving.

Greg, an awkward high school senior, interacts in the safety of his empty social cocoon and befriends a girl with leukemia. He has attributes which I see in myself: awkwardness, unattractiveness, complete ineptitude in interactions with girls, and an illogical head-over heels love for cinema.

I adore the moment where Greg — who makes terrible homages to classics like Midnight Cowboy, A Clockwork Orange, and Breathless (and many, many more of my favourite movies) — is in his room directly above where his parents are fighting about his grades and the fact that he won’t be admitted into college the following year.

Greg has spent so much time with Rachel, the titular dying girl, that he has done “literally zero homework” all year. Like it’s a drug, Greg injects himself with a dose of Francois Truffaut’s 400 Blows, escaping to another world of sadness to express his emotion and frustration. I don’t know about you, but I’ve done that.

There are many moments where the film calls attention to its construction by having Greg narrate a contrast between this movie and a conventional Hollywood one. For example, when he and Rachel begin to have some chemistry, he breaks up the moment by saying, “so if this was a touching romantic story, our eyes would meet and suddenly we would be furiously making out with the passion of 1,000 suns. But this isn’t a touching romantic story.”

This approach is often very funny, but more importantly, it serves the story by creating an ironic distance that Greg not only creates between himself and the other characters, but also the spectator. As Greg learns to open up to those around him, the narration also becomes less self-reflexive and more of a tool to express emotion.

When Greg tells us that the movie we’re watching won’t end with Rachel dying because it’s not that kind of low-level film, it is like a defence mechanism against the audience judging him. So in the end, once his arc is complete, the film allows itself to go into more conventional story beats (albeit in a different way from what you’ve seen) because Greg is no longer hiding behind his pretensions.

This approach is so apparent in the final scene that it seems almost ripped out of the film Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close. What ends up separating this film from more gooey manipulation is that it uses these tropes to tell us something about the character.

Greg is unlike the teen-movie protagonists to whom we’ve become accustomed. He doesn’t drink. He’s not trying to lose his virginity. He doesn’t do drugs, although he does once accidentally. He’s not obsessed with finding a date for prom. He’s not a jock, a nerd, a geek, a bookworm, or any other stereotype. He is clunky and unrefined. He says excruciatingly stupid things yet still remains entirely endearing to us because we could see ourselves acting that way — in fact, most of us probably have.

Pixar succeeds with adult-oriented hit Inside Out

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Life is like a long bike race: a grueling trek to the finish that consists of exhilarating ups, depressing downs, and moments of uncertainty where you feel like quitting. Inside Out takes place near the beginning, during the exhilaration period. This is a film about what happens when the training wheels come off and innocence is lost. There are bound to be some scraped knees, but we all get back to pedaling.

The plot could be told in a trite 10 minute short film: a young girl whose upbringing was driven by joy has to deal with overwhelming, conflicted emotions when she has to leave her friends behind to move to San Francisco, where she embarrasses herself at school during an emotional breakdown. The past fades, imaginary friends dissolve, and old companions evaporate into the fog of memory. What remains are feelings and emotions. You may not remember exactly what happened, but you’ll always know how you felt.

Inside Out is less concerned about the particulars of the situation — the story of the girl is generic and universal — and more embroiled in the emotions fighting behind it. That’s not just my own jibber jabber. This movie actually takes place inside an 11-year-old’s head as her five emotions (Joy, Anger, Fear, Sadness, and Disgust) attempt to navigate Riley’s ever-changing world.

This is an ambitious concept, but it’s clear that if you’re trying to look at this deeper layer throughout, not everything fits as a metaphorical representation of Riley’s psyche. At times this can be frustrating, but the film must be interpreted as a whole rather than considering each instance on its own.

The ensemble manages to form a fairly deep palette of characters, and a lot of this characterization is done through meticulous visual design. Although Riley’s external world is fairly banal and grounded, it accentuates the vibrancy and detail of the production design inside her head. Each feeling is modeled around preconceptions that we already associate with feelings: Joy is a star-shaped glowing beam of yellow light with lively big eyes; Sadness is short, blue skinned, chubby, and covered head to toe in a turtleneck. Each character has distinct details that make you recognize the feeling they represent even without any other factors.

If you thought Pixar had lost the magic from Wall-E, Up, Ratatouille, Toy Story, Monsters Inc. and The Incredibles, you can take solace; Inside Out is a welcome addition to that list. Without a doubt the funniest film they have ever made, this high-concept emotional rollercoaster takes a simple and familiar story and tells it with creativity and heart.

This is a film of great moments such as when Riley’s “facts and opinions” boxes get mixed up, or when the crew in charge of Riley’s long-term memory decide to not throw the annoyingly catchy gum commercial into the dump. There is also a slapstick bit that doubles as a history of abstract painting. Kids in the theatre were laughing, but this might be the most adult-oriented Pixar film to date.

Older audiences should be thoroughly wrapped up in this story about growing up and transitioning into a new part of life. The last line of dialogue, after Riley’s control board gets an upgrade with new buttons including swear words and puberty, is Joy saying, now that she’s 12, “what could possibly go wrong?”

We know there will be more memories, more buttons, and more sadness. Until we bike across the finish line, life’s going to put forks in the road and maybe even a few flat tires. The key is to learn how to manage our emotions, inside and out.

Comic Connoisseur: Quantum and Woody cap series with side-splitting hijinks

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Quantum and Woody are the worst crime fighters ever created. There is no duo in comics today that can match the hijinks of these two mismatched protectors. Joined by a supporting cast that includes a sexy clone named Sixty-Nine and a goat who can shoot lasers from its eyes, it is enough to make one wonder if Valiant Comics were stoned when they announced the comic’s return after a 13-year hiatus. However, since their reboot in 2013, the characters have seen more success than anyone expected.

In a time where virtuous superheroes are innumerably prevalent, it is a welcome surprise to see two characters that share none of those admirable qualities. Quantum and Woody are not even ruthless vigilantes; they’re just a pair of nitwits that should have never been granted superpowers. Their adventures are nothing less than a train wreck from start to finish, and this earns the comic the distinction of being a side-splitting odyssey of grandiose stupidity you have to see to believe.

In Quantum and Woody: Crooked Pasts, Present Tense the series comes to its grand conclusion with the same loveable craziness readers have come to expect. Complete with a Voodoo Heist and an evil reanimated Thomas Edison, it is everything readers have always wanted but could never articulate with words.

At its core, Quantum and Woody is story about two estranged adoptive brothers who would not hesitate to kill one another if given the opportunity. Brought together to try and solve the murder of their father, the un-dynamic duo are accidently imbued with superpowers in the process. To make matters worse, Quantum and Woody cannot be away from each other for a period of over 24 hours or every atom in their body will come apart.

As they progress closer to the mystery surrounding their father’s death, tensions between the brothers mount astronomically. In the end, they create twice as much conflict for themselves than all the antagonists in the series combined.

The banter between the brothers is what makes up a majority of the series’ charm. James Asmus perfectly encapsulates their petty squabbles with his witty, fast-paced dialogue. Every panel in the series packs hilarity — you cannot help but laugh hysterically as these characters find new and exciting ways to make things worse for themselves. The brothers are magnets for catastrophe, and every situation is better than the last.

The series is not perfect, though. For instance, it suffers from inconsistent artwork throughout the whole volume. This is not to say the artwork doesn’t service the story, but it does become distracting when artists change chapter to chapter. The series could have benefitted from having the same artist for every issue; it would have made the overall collection more well-rounded.

All in all though, Quantum and Woody is a series which can brighten even the darkest day with its humour — and remind only-children everywhere how lucky they are to be alone.

HUMOUR: Has Game of Thrones gone too far in new leaked season six script?

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Photo courtesy of HBO

Remember earlier this year when four episodes of Game of Thrones were leaked online before the season even aired? Unfortunately, the security breaches keep coming for the HBO mega-hit, as, not even a week after the show’s season finale, a supposedly leaked script for next year’s premiere has revealed the fate of at least one fan favourite character.

The leaked document, which HBO has yet to comment on the authenticity of, includes a scene where bastard son Jon Snow has his right hand sliced off and his stump of an arm crammed into his mouth, causing him to choke on his own blood, all before he is slowly lowered into a vat of mystical acid, which not only burns through flesh and bone but also incinerates a person’s soul, ensuring an eternity of hell in the afterlife.

Fan reaction to the script’s leak has been overwhelmingly negative, with many criticising the showrunners for digressing too far from George R.R. Martin’s source material, the book series A Song of Ice and Fire. At the end of A Dance With Dragons (spoiler alert), Jon Snow only gets three of his fingers cut off before being lowered into the cauldron of boiling mystical acid, a much tamer send-off than the one HBO has allegedly cooked up for the character.

In fact, many fans have been posting online since the leak, threatening to boycott the show unless HBO changes the script to be more representative of Snow’s fate in the novel.

“I get that it’s a violent show,” one reviewer for TVLine said in response, having read the season six premiere script, “and I know the showrunners have been deviating further and further from the books, but they’re ruining the character of Jon Snow for me. The way he goes out in the novel is poetic and so heroic; what the show does is just torture porn, plain and simple.”

While the show has never shied away from controversial topics like violence against women, last season was particularly brutal with the rape of Sansa Stark in the sixth episode and Stannis Baratheon sacrificing his only daughter to be burned at the stake in the season’s penultimate episode.

However, some fans are pleased with this new supposed development, if only because it’s a male character being put through such torturous events.

“I’m sad we won’t get to see Kit Harington’s beautiful, bearded baby face anymore,” commented Jezebel columnist Sarah Ranger, “but whether or not the showrunners are aware of it, the death of Jon Snow has a lot of feminist undertones to it. His character is literally left to simmer and boil in the broth of patriarchy and he pays the ultimate price because of it. Perhaps the most surprising part of this latest twist is how progressive Snow’s mutilation is.”

It’s unlikely we’ll find out anytime soon if the leaked script is real or not, but one thing’s for certain: Game of Thrones fans sure like to complain about stuff.

This week in comics

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AGORA #6
The Adventures of Agoraphobia Man: World Defender (Jacey Gibb)

FIXED Peers 6
Peers (Leslie Lu)

Pun 2 3
Pun 2 3 (Sarah Walker)

Seagull Square #6
Seagull Square (Jill Mandrake)

HUMOUR: SFU alum to Kickstart documentary on the Universal Studios rides that almost were

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Photo courtesy of BrokenSphere (Wikipedia)

For Jas Khattra, the choice between going to Disneyland or Universal Studios was always an easy decision to make — even at the age of five.

“Universal Studios,” he said, laughing. “Mom and dad would always roll their eyes at me and say, ‘Jas, let’s visit Disneyland instead.’ Then I’d throw a fit until we went to Universal [Studios]. It didn’t always work but hell, I was five so it was worth a shot [laughs].”

At the age of 25, this SFU grad has taken his passion for the well-known theme park and turned it into something quite unexpected: a Kickstarter-funded documentary centred on scrapped Universal Studios rides, a project that Khattra promises is even more controversial than you would expect. The Peak recently caught up with Khattra to learn more about his daring documentary.

The Peak: So, Jas, tell us about the documentary.

Jas Khattra: It’s going to be about the Universal Studios no one knows about. The dark side, man.

P: The dark side?

JK: Hell yeah, It’s going to be about all this “behind-closed-doors” stuff. Bribes. Corruption. The rides they don’t want you to remember.

P: Can you disclose to The Peak one of the rides that was swept under the rug?

JK: Well, I shouldn’t. . . but I got to build up some hype for this thing somehow. I have significant proof and documentation about a ride that was going to feature Jaws and E.T. the extra-terrestrial teaming up in an audience interactive studio ride.

P: You’re kidding.

JK: I’m not even joking, man. It was going coincide with Spielberg’s scrapped reboot for Jaws. Jaws was supposed to be a sort of alien-shark hybrid and E.T. returned to Earth to stop him, but they team up in the end. It was totally bonkers.

P: How did you come across this information?

JK: When Sony had its leak, I found an email that referenced a long-forgotten Spielberg film which was going to cross market with an ill-fated Universal Studios ride. I snooped around some more and found an original handwritten proposal posted on an Instagram account by a temp who was sorting some files for the studio.

P: Wow. What else did you find when you were gathering information for this project?

JK: Well, attendance at Universal Studios has been down the last few years. As such, someone put forward the idea to cater to a more mature audience.

P: Meaning what exactly?

JK: What if I told you that at one point a 50 Shades of Grey ride was in development?

P: No. . .

JK: I’m absolutely serious. The repercussion of this project’s cancellation is still being felt at Universal Studios. It’s also lead to schism among management. Like I said, dark side.

P: Have you told anyone else about this? What were their initial reactions?

JK: People have looked at me like I’m crazy for doing this. And I totally get it. But if people knew even a fraction of some of the lousy ideas that get thrown around in a Universal Studios board room, it’s mind-blowing stuff.

P: Any projects on the back burner after this one concludes?

JK: I do actually, and I’m very excited about it. I plan to Kickstart another documentary on two corporate giants that have been secretly at war with each other since 2010.

P: And what companies are those?

JK: Lego and Minecraft.

Khattra is now accepting pledges online through Kickstarter for his documentary, The Good, The Scrapped, and The Ugly.

Laugh Track: Cameron Macleod

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Illustration by Saida Saetgareeva

When it comes to comedy, Vancouverite Cameron Macleod has done it all. In addition to producing The Hero Show at the China Cloud Theatre every month, as well as participating in other Vancouver staples like Rapp Battlez and Weird Al Karaoke, the comedian has also begun dabbling in writing and directing films. Read on to learn more about his current improv group Matterhorn Improv, what makes The Hero Show so special, and his dream of one day filming a full penetration shot for comedy’s sake.

[Interview has been edited and condensed for print]

Tell people what you do in the Vancouver comedy scene.

I’m a producer and a writer and a performer. In the past I was the comedy curator for Olio Festival and the comedy curator and producer of Comedy Waste, but I handed that off last year. I produce a lot of live shows, mainly The Hero Show, as well as help produce and promote its sister show Sidekicks, which is every second month at China Cloud. I also produce the Matterhorn Improv show, which is a monthly with Brian Cook and Andrew Barber. Lately I’ve gotten into directing. I used to direct sketches but I’m trying to get into bigger projects. I started with Orgies Happening Tonight, which is my first written and directed full short film. I do improv as well with Vancouver TheatreSports League, Matterhorn, and other shows around town.

What’s your favourite project right now?

Matterhorn’s been great. We’ve been performing together for three years, but now that we’re performing at the China Cloud, it really feels like we have a style of how we do an improv set. [. . .] Brian and Andrew are two of my best buddies and when you get to improvise with people who you’re tight with, it’s so easy and fearless. You can go on stage and do absolutely anything you want and you know that they’ll have your back. You can do the craziest thing you want and it’ll somehow work out.

What can you tell me about Orgies Happening Tonight?

The idea for the script came from me and Brandi Bertrand having drinks on the patio one day, talking about Dan Savage’s Hump!, which is a film festival that tells people to be a porn star for a weekend and make a five-minute porno. In that festival there’s a $1,000 prize for best comedic short, so we thought, “How can we write a comedy porno?”

It was just a joke, but then I went home and wrote down our idea. It started out as a comedy porno because I wanted to have a full penetration shot that was happening right beside a guy’s face during a scene, so it started as pitching this comedy porno to comedians being like, “Would you play this character in this comedy porno?” [I soon] got in touch with Daniel Code, and we started talking about logistics and costs and if we were to make this a comedy porno, what kind of festival could we actually apply to other than Hump!? After thinking about all that, I decided to scale it back.

It’s a comedy that’s very sexually charged [with] nudity in it, but there’s no graphic sex. The full penetration shot is still a dream of mine to have in a comedy, because in newer films like Borat or Walk Hard, there are all these gratuitous male penis shots. I just figure that the next step is a full penetration shot, but have it in a way that’s not sexualized; it’s just a joke, seeing it as a joke instead of a pornographic image. But for the purposes of this short we decided to take that out. Orgies Happening Tonight is the story of a guy who works a shitty office job and hates his life, but then the janitor, who’s his guardian angel, tells him that he should go to an orgy and that it will change his life.

Tell me about your monthly comedy night The Hero Show.

It’s become this show where the audience is a theatre audience; they’re not a stand-up audience. It’s not a crowd that wants immediate jokes. They have patience and they’ll watch and see what the payoff is and even if there’s no payoff, they’ll still just watch and they’re open to that. You can take the weirdest idea you’ve ever had and do it at The Hero Show, and it’ll probably go over really well.

At the first show we did at the China Cloud, I got a cheap door and had it onstage with a curtain around it. I opened the show by doing a monologue through the door to my girlfriend, who was really mad and wouldn’t let me in [. . .] I got scared that she was dead because she wasn’t talking to me anymore, so I axed through the door, Shining-style, and that’s how the show opened.

Those are the things you can do at The Hero Show. People come ready for and open to anything, so it’s nice. It’s a safe place for people to try new things and not worry about getting heckled on stage.

What’s one piece of advice you’d give to someone trying to break into the Vancouver comedy scene?

Go out to as many shows as possible, introduce yourself to as many comedians as possible, do as many open mics as you can, and get comfortable. But don’t expect to be put on the shows you want to be on right away. It’s about immersing yourself in the scene.

The next Hero Show is happening on June 18, and the next Matterhorn Improv show is on June 30. Both shows are at The China Cloud.

Last-minute Father’s Day gifts to help perpetuate hyper-masculinity

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Father’s Day is just around the corner, and you still haven’t bought dad a present? Here are a few gift ideas to help make the day extra special for your manliest of old men.

  • A pair of tickets to see his favourite sports team
  • Motor oil for his car
  • Two pairs of whisky stones (one for home, one for the office)
  • A new set of tongs for the barbecue
  • A six-pack of generic domestic beer
  • The complete James Bond series on Blu-ray
  • A new golf shirt
  • Twelve-month subscription to Playboy
  • A big juicy, raw steak
  • A new mug that says “World’s Manliest Dad”
  • An old-timey straight razor for shaving
  • A set of ear plugs to drown out those darn kids
  • A new tool belt
  • A new set of tools
  • A new set of power tools
  • A gift card for Home Hardware so he can buy his own tools
  • Novelty plastic balls to hang from the back of his truck
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