tip sheet

Here’s the titles of actual lectures being held in Montreal listed on the Gazette ‘Tip Sheet’ page for September/October

“The Shapiro Years:Bernard Shapiro McGill University’s 15th Principal and Vice-Chancellor 1994-2002”
-known affectionately to staff and faculty as “The Slasher’

“The Art of Forgiving Yourself and Others”
-no fucking way

“An Emergency Room Primer:How To Visit the ER and Survive!”
-learn to hold your breath for forty minutes

“Self-Help Against Depression”
-instructions on how to climb the security fence on the Jacques Cartier Bridge

“Re-inventing Mental Illness:The Revolution that Promises to Change Everything”
-put the hospital administrators on the street and the patients back in the hospitals

“The Truth About Psychic Attack,Spells and Curses”
-they don’t work otherwise Stephen Harper would be dead

“Sea Monsters Unmasked”
-my dentist

-And finally, my personal favorite-

“Indexing the Dead:A Journey through Edwardian Montreal Death Data”
-X-rated