Joel Mackenzie
SPOOF: Don’t fall asleep with your microwave!
January 11, 2016Microwaves cook our meals, keep our time, make phone calls, scan and interpret our Internet history, store our music, create social media posts on our behalf, and do just about everything else. But did you know that microwaves don’t like being coddled? An angry microwave is more likely to steal your identity — seventeen microwaves were convicted of doing just that in 2015 alone! Your microwave is warm, but it isn’t a teddy bear: keep it strapped to your back where it was designed to be!
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You’ll never guess who Andrew Petter is!
January 11, 2016• He was born in New Westminster, but raised in SFU Woodward’s. • He often plays electric guitar around the Surrey campus. • He’s read his convocation ceremony speech progressively faster at every convocation ceremony since 2014.…
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Your man drinks water upside down — what’s he trying to say?
January 11, 2016So it happened again — you’re at dinner, and at a pause in conversation, you man excuses himself, balances on one hand and his head, and drinks an entire glass of water! What is he trying to tell you? Peakmo…
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SPOOF: Eight times Drake was born in Canada
January 11, 20161. Born in Canada in 1986 Rap superstar Drake was born in Toronto on October 24, 1986. He started from the bottom — you know the rest! 2. Born into the Canadian consciousness Drake was arguably born into the Canadian…
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HUMOUR: Copy Editor’s Corner (compiled)
December 11, 2015October 19: Dangling modifiers Hi there! You are reading a new weekly writing tips segment written by me, Joel MacKenzie, The Peak’s Copy Editor! Tune your eyes in every week to this corner of The Peak for writing tips and…
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This week in comics
October 26, 2015Squashed (Ceilidh Ashcroft) Creator's Pet (Destiny Hsu) Seagull Square (Gregory Edwards & Jill Mandrake) A new project from writer-director Lena Dunham (Jacey Gibb & Joel MacKenzie) Mystic Mac (Reuben Newton)
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Point / Counterpoint
July 26, 2015I'm a night owl! By Max Hill Tonight is going to be different. Tonight, I’m going to set my alarm for eight. I know, I know, it’s already two in the morning, but I read an article that said that…
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Love, in the bedroom and elsewhere
July 6, 2015Love and sex? Yeah, they’re somewhat related. They can also be far from it, I know. But, being that it’s not completely prevalent elsewhere in the 2015 Sex Issue, I hope to throw in this edition at least a thought…
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Point / Counterpoint
June 22, 2015Give it to me straight By Max Hill I’m butt naked, holding my privates in my cupped hands, running around a cabin in the woods at full speed. There’s no cellphone reception and it’s well past midnight. I can barely…
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Bull$#!+: China treating Internet addiction ‘disorder’ at militant style facilities; eating
July 21, 2014China treating Internet addiction ‘disorder’ at militant style facilities By David Ly It’s been highly debated in the psychological associations, but Internet addiction disorder (IAD) isn’t officially classified as a mental disorder (seriously. Wiki it.). Though one can be addicted…
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