Articles and art, criticism and cartoons, intepretations and illustrations… by Geoff Olson
Evening, folks! What a great looking audience! Sometimes people tell me I’m full of it….so I figure why fight it? Hope you’re all kicking back with your quarantinis, enjoying the free time to cultivate high anxiety. Guess we’re now all “conquering the great indoors,” as the Aussies call it. Things are crazy and getting crazier. […]
Read More LIVE! FROM HOME!I’m a Vancouver-based cartoonist, illustrator, writer, and public speaker. My political cartoons and illustrations have appeared in Maclean’s magazine and publications across Canada, as well as promos for The History Channel and the Bravo Network. My writings on science, popular culture and politics have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Adbusters, The […]
Read More BLAH BLAH BLOGWherein the author tackles James Joyces’ most challenging work, in honour of Bloomsday on June 16. by Geoff Olson (June 2016) This Sunday marks Bloomsday, the annual celebration of Irish author James Joyce and his works. On June 16, 1904, Joyce and Nora Barnacle first went for the walk through Dublin he later immortalized in […]
Read More ON AGAIN OFF AGAIN FINNEGANby Geoff Olson (May 2019) “Wherever a way opens we are impelled to seek, conscious that in this activity of mind we are obeying the light that is in our nature.” – Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington A total solar eclipse is an extraordinary event. The air cools as the moon slowly nibbles into the disc […]
Read More AHEAD IN THE STARS: Arthur Eddington and the Great Eclipse of May 29, 1919– by Geoff Olson – Common Ground, May 2019 This month I’ve been tasked to write on “why voters don’t trust politicians once they get into power.” The simple answer is that they’re all a bunch of lying bastards. There, that was easy. See you in a future issue, folks! Perhaps I should expand on […]
Read More BASTARDS & BODDHISATTVAS – from high hopes to high office
A PAIN IN THE WELTANSCHAUUNG 