Mark Wood

Mark Wood started out 15 years ago as Newfoundland and Labrador's first Shed Correspondent in The Southern Post and carried the title to Off The Rock, The Newfoundland Herald and The Independent newspaper, where he was primarily an automotive journalist. He also contributed to The Newfoundland Confederate magazine and website. For the past dozen years or so, Mark's column On The Beer has appeared in Brew News, published by Brewery Lane. For some odd reason he's occasionally a guest on CBC Radio's Crosstalk. He does his best swagger when a particularly smarmy song blares in a department store.

Posts


  • > No country for old lawnmowers
    June 15, 2011
    No sooner did the last bit of snow melt then the dandelions popped up. Swelled with rain and fog, they took over that hellacious plot you optimistically call yo... Read More

  • > Freedom 15
    June 1, 2011
    I bought my first motorcycle with my first pay cheque from my very first job. Since then my life's been a steady succession of jobs and motorcycles. The first o... Read More

  • > May 24: a special report
    May 18, 2011
    Some people appear to live fabulously rich lives, mostly because they're fabulously rich. They go to Monaco for the Grand Prix, the south of France for the wint... Read More

  • > Not just any Nipper Bug
    May 4, 2011
    I finally got stung by a wasp. Been avoiding it all my life. It happened a year-and-a-half ago in January, bastard snuck in on a piece of maple headed for th... Read More

  • > In praise of wood stoves
    April 20, 2011
    By the time a piece of wood reaches my stove, I will have handled it eight times, enough to develop a relationship with it. While winter howls and the wood stov... Read More

  • > The St. Philip’s steeple gankers
    March 19, 2011
    Gank: (noun) phonetic aberration of gangster; (verb) to thieve or remove; (past tense) gank-you very much! The title of village idiot is dealt out on a revol... Read More

  • > Captain Kirk’s lucky day
    March 5, 2011
    Tuesday night. The quietest night of the week at Smokin' Joe's shed with only himself and Jimmy Two Fires, sot by the wood stove mangling the English langua... Read More