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  • The DK Celcenheit System®

    The DK Celcenheit System®

    Celsius and Fahrenheit only do half the job. So, I’ve gone and done the world another favour by creating the David Keen Celcenheit System®. You’re welcome.

  • My Goals: Meet and Disparage a Disliked Player

    My Goals: Meet and Disparage a Disliked Player

    Recently, while attending a gathering for a close friend’s important anniversary, the opportunity to cross off another of my life’s goals came my way. Now, I share a special day with one of my best friends, and with former Maple Leaf Doug Gilmour. Ten years ago this past weekend, one of my closest friends, Will Jones,…

  • David Foster Wallace as Religious Experience

    David Foster Wallace as Religious Experience

    Over the last couple of weeks I have become obsessed with David Foster Wallace. After consuming much of his non-fiction work; watching and listened to countless interviews of and about him, I have waded into the beautifully enveloping world that is Infinite Jest and in two short weeks I have had my life changed. Everything…

  • My Goals (as seen on my fridge)

    My Goals (as seen on my fridge)

    Years ago, I decided to put pen to paper and record all of the quirky, earnest and somewhat absurd things I had decided since late childhood that I wanted to do at some point in my life. These are my goals. The probability of these things actually happening varies widely— indeed some are extremely attainable, or…