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EXTRA! EXTRA! Read All About It! (CTQ NEWS)

–The launch of ANIMALOPOLIS and The Fourteenth Issue was a roaring success. The CTQ Staff would like to thank Kristian Adam, Michael Sasi from M.S.T. Company, Ayden Gallery, Colourtime Printing, Rachel from CocoaNymph Chocolates and Confections (who sculpted some of the Animalopolis animals out of chocolate) and all the amazing people who showed up to help us celebrate. For those of you who didn't make it down
to the show, don't worry, you can still see it/read it in The Fourteenth Issue, available in THE CTQ ONLINE STORE.

–It has been almost two years since our last staff portrait. We've aged a little since then and we've bought several new items of clothing (just the other day our Staff Villain bought a jacket with fancy elbow patches). Because of these changes, we all feel it's time for a new staff portrait. Check out our new CAWntest for all the details.

–House of RTS, a neat little art gallery in Squamish, BC, is now selling back issues of Crow Toes Quarterly. House of RTS also displays original artwork by CTQ cover artists Kristian Adam and Megan Majewski. If you're in that area, make sure you drop in and take a look (and maybe buy an issue or two of the magazine while you're there).

–A great story is timeless. That's why a back issue of CTQ can never be dated. It's loaded with great stories! Our back issues (issue 1 to issue 9) are only $6 each and our "special" print edition back issues are only $10 each. That price includes shipping, handling and all those pesky little taxes. Complete your collection today. THE CTQ ONLINE STORE

The Narrator's Latest Blog Entry

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 – The unbelievable heat and the dead batteries in our wall clock made us lose track of the time. It was late-August and we had yet to discuss our next issue. If we were going to get The Fifteenth Issue out by the end of summer we had to get moving. That’s why I called a Saturday editorial meeting.

Calling a Saturday meeting brought out a variety of strange reactions from the CTQ Staff. Our Staff Villain re-inflated and taped up the bubble wrap he was popping and he popped it again with a little more gusto. Poinsettia snapped the pencil she was using to write an article about Whitehorse Winter Bellies (for those of you who are wondering, a Whitehorse Winter Belly is a type of faerie that appears only in winter in the forests outside of Whitehorse. The Winter Belly is known for its furry wings and for the icicles hanging from its nose). Ogilvy's reaction was perhaps the strangest of them all. When he heard he had to come in on a Saturday, he began to hum, and he didn’t stop humming until he left for the night. He hummed TV theme songs and Christmas Carols. He hummed classical movements and popular hits. He even hummed a few national anthems. So very strange, indeed.

Of course summer Saturdays are not meant for work...but we were behind schedule. We were behind because the bears were no longer there to keep us on task and on time. We were behind because production on The Fourteenth Issue was so intense and we wanted to continue celebrating the achievement of issue a little longer. We were behind because...

We had a lot of excuses for being behind. But there was no more time for excuses. We had to move on, and the only way we were going to do that was by meeting and making some serious decisions...Read More

How Many Words is a Picture Worth?

On Saturday, August 21st, 2010, the streets of downtown Vancouver were overrun with zombies. Instead of running for his life, Christopher grabbed his camera and got right in the middle of it. If you're feeling brave and you'd like to see more of Christopher's Zombie Walk pictures, click HERE.

An Excerpt From Our Fourteenth Issue

THE SCIENCE FAIR INVADERS:
KYLE HENSON’S TRUE ACCOUNT OF HOW
HE SAVED THE WORLD by Rick Borger

This year’s science fair at Gargle River School was going to be a disaster, thanks to the Invasion of the Brain Mulchers.

That was the name of the movie a film crew shot in our town. They didn’t bring in any big stars, but they brought plenty of excitement. Everybody in Gargle River acted for them, at least in crowd scenes. Our drama teacher, Ms. Wilma, got a prize role because she knows martial arts. She was barbequed while fighting a fifty-foot long, fire-breathing turtle.

By the time the crew left, though, our science fair was a week away. Everything was way behind schedule. For the past few years our school had aimed to make every science fair better than the ones before. Not this year.

We filled half a gym with last-minute exhibits that were mostly pictures and diagrams. Our baking soda volcano was Plasticine.

For my own exhibit, I printed up some math puzzles. You know the ones where you guess the next number in a sequence? I’m good at those. But my partner Jarrod wasn’t impressed. He figured most people don’t find math puzzles too thrilling. -Read More