Cathal, enjoy your stuff, but please pass it by the copy editors--assuming the Globe still employs one or two:
"It's not offence for it's own sake. It's unpredictability."
Or was it an overstretched, inexperienced, poorly paid copy editor who introduced that mistake? 
Oh, and please stop misusing "as such" as an all-purpose bridge between paragraphs. But keep up the funny stuff.