New Year’s Resolutions

Did you make any for yourself? I normally don’t — my sweeping declarations on how I’ll improve my life usually come after every weekend — but this year, I’d thought I’d share a few:

— Work out like Hugh Jackmaneven if it kills me!

— Get out there and have as much fun as a priest

— Stop upsetting Nancy Robertson with my pornographic hand-holding

Stop hacking into celebrities’ Twitter accounts:

Lay off the steroids!

Study the Bible with Prince (cause he is funky!)

— Go on one of those detox diets that…what’s that? They’re crap? Woo hoo! Time for potato chips and coffee!!

A former editor of the late, lamented fab magazine, Scott has been writing for Xtra since 2007 on a variety of topics in news pieces, interviews, blogs, reviews and humour pieces. He lives on the Danforth with his boyfriend of 12 years, a manic Jack Russell Terrier, a well-stocked mini-bar and a shelf of toy Daleks.

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