Here in Toronto we have a bunch of free daily newspapers–Dose, Metro, 24 Hours. The last one features a daily column penned by Miki, a self-professed psychic. You can link to the latest here, and that’s a regular example of her writing.
Lady, I can appreciate the point of the column (hey, everybody’s got to make a living) but come on, psychic? Call it an advice column and be done with it. I don’t see any evidence of real psychic ability here, and I doubt I ever will in the future.
If you’re really psychic, why don’t you go to the nearest scientific lab and get yourself tested for proof positive? Lot more fame and money in the offing than just a daily column in the paper…
It may be nothing more than a matter of marketing. Not simply marketing to the assumed chowderheads who read the magazine/papers, but more importantly - selling the idea of the column to the managing editor. Having simply an advice column is too staid for many of the free urban papers I know - which deliberately try to present an image of being hip, edgy, and not-normal.
So Miki may have tried to sell an advice column and been shot down, but the psychic column? That’s hip and edgy, and not something you can find in the Globe and Mail.
It actually makes good editorial sense. Saves ink by obviating the need to explain your trite, obvious inferences the way Ann Landers and the rest have to.
