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What Grinds Our Gears: Keeping cookware in the fridge
September 27, 2021by Jacob Mattie, Peak Associate If you’re like me and have very little disposable income, chances are you do a lot of your own cooking — and by association, the cleanup as well. You may, then, at some time or another, find yourself looking at a pot full of food, an empty shelf in your fridge, and think to yourself you’ve discovered a great way to both avoid having to wash a container and to put off the pot-washing until a later date. But I’m here to tell you: Don’t. Fucking. Do it. There is something inherently unappetizing and gross…
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What Grinds Our Gears: SFU’s bookstore should be helping me find books
September 13, 2020by Sara Wong, Peak Associate Having the correct copy of a required course reading is extremely important. That’s why I primarily rely on the SFU Bookstore when purchasing my course materials. However, for the second semester in a row, the bookstore…
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How Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” predicted the Trump presidency
November 21, 2016By: Vincent Justin Mitra, Peak Associate Popular singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, known for songs such as “Love Story” and “Shake it Off,” has been revealed to be gifted with powers of precognition beyond that of mortal man, after it came to…
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Ten horror movies you’ve never heard of
October 24, 2016By: Vincent Justin Mitra, Peak Associate Pontypool This Canadian zombie film follows Grant Mazzy, a former big city radio shock jock who is reassigned to a station in the small unincorporated village of Pontypool, Ontario. With a blizzard raging outside,…
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BrainDead puts a funny sci-fi twist on American politics
September 6, 2016By: Vincent Justin Mitra, Peak Associate Politics in the United States have been rather extreme lately, and it is because mind-controlling space ants have eaten the brains of members of Congress. At least according to BrainDead, a show which premiered…
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Five reality shows that deserve a comeback
June 20, 2016By: Vincent Justin Mitra, Peak Associate Reality shows tend to get a bad reputation. They're called repetitive, vapid, self-indulgent, and inauthentic; shallow popularity contests for the simple-minded. While that may be true of some or many of the reality shows…
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