Ominocity

The power of endless possibility, music and a good pair of headphones: A love letter to CFCR 90.5 FM

Chris Morin·May 18, 2016

I turned 14 in 1994, the year Kurt Cobain died. The same year I discovered smokes, hickeys and what getting punched in the face felt like. I attended Bedford Road, the second oldest high school in Saskatoon, and played basketball...

Lifestyle Oddball Beat

·0 Comments·0·318 views

Why we don’t listen to our mixtape love letters anymore

Chris Morin·October 30, 2015

In the van everyone is arguing over the best love song. Tellingly, they are always the ones that are heartbreaking. Those weeping odes to love actually lost, snatched away by cruelty or the lusty eyes of another. These are the...

Lifestyle Music Oddball Beat

·4 Comments·0·173 views

Four Tiny Stories About Romance and Roadtrips: tour diaries

Chris Morin·August 5, 2015

Before I was born, mom dated a trucker, a man who woke up early and paid his bills with long, grueling road trips. Making a point of seeing him off every morning, she packed him a lunch and kissed his...

Lifestyle Oddball Beat

·4 Comments·0·168 views

A cat set on simmer just before the eruption of an earthquake

Chris Morin·July 2, 2015

Jeremy attempts to instruct me on how to compose myself if I ever take acid. “You might hear or see something grotesque,” he tells me. “Something that will make you want to run and hide. Wrong move. Make sure to...

Oddball Beat

·3 Comments·0·110 views

Buying a house is a really expensive way to host a party: Column

Chris Morin·May 22, 2015

One of the first houses I ever moved into was also the first house I gotten evicted from. But instead of some grandiose disaster – like the time we accidentally flooded the downstairs bathroom or the time we purposely set...

Oddball Beat

·6 Comments·0·178 views