Comments on: My life in dépanneurs

By: Last week was a very, very good week | CRAIG SILVERMAN

Last week was a very, very good week | CRAIG SILVERMAN — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:12:28 +0000

[...] Friday night, I received a Silver Medal at the National Magazine Awards. (Read the winning article here.) The gold in the humour category went to Bruce McCall, who contributes to The New Yorker, Vanity [...]

By: Deborah Carr

Deborah Carr — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:33:01 +0000

Hi Craig – congratulations on your nomination…so well deserved…this is hilarious.

By: pauline

pauline — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:09:21 +0000

Loved your dép. piece, Craig.
And congratulations on your website.
Great stuff!
p.

By: Congrats to 2009 NMA nominees « PWAC Quebec

Congrats to 2009 NMA nominees « PWAC Quebec — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:33:25 +0000

[...] Awards recently announced this year’s nominees, which include a few PWAC members and friends: Craig Silverman, Alex Roslin and Jean-Benoît Nadeau times two (let me know if I’ve forgotten [...]

By: Believe me, it really is an honor just being nominated | CRAIG SILVERMAN

Believe me, it really is an honor just being nominated | CRAIG SILVERMAN — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:29:39 +0000

[...] can read my nominated story here. It was published in Maisonneuve [...]

By: Dominique

Dominique — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:57:49 +0000

Yes, of course, that too.

By: Craig Silverman

Craig Silverman — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:43:44 +0000

That’s lovely to hear, Dominique. Thank you. I hope it also inspired you to buy beer at your local dep.

By: Dominique

Dominique — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:46:22 +0000

Hi Craig,

I read this last summer and really loved it. I thought it was a great piece of writing and inspired me to try to be a better writer. Thanks!

By: blork

blork — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:02:20 +0000

I haven’t read the article yet, but one thing everyone can do to be kind to their dep person is to sort their beer bottles before bringing them to the dep for refund. Apparently the deps have to sort the bottles before they give them back to the brewers; The McAusalan guy doesn’t want Boreal bottles, the Molson guy won’t take Labatt bottles, etc.

Because of that, an annoying and time consuming part of the dep person’s job is to sort the bottles that are brought in. That’s a lot of dreary and thankless work. For that reason, I always sort them (Griffon bottles in the Griffon box, Bierbrier bottles in the Bierbrier box) BEFORE I go to the dep. It only saves that person a minute or two, but if everyone did it, it would be a huge relief to them!