Having been born and raised in the one-stoplight town of Collingwood, ON, I craved city life and sardonic people so much it hurt. So, I moved to Toronto to embrace my ability to be (as quoted by a professor from my undergraduate years) "wittily and wickedly self-deprecating" in my writing, with an onus of course on literature, film, and television; my three out of four vices (no, I don't plan to indulge you with the last).