Protected: Day one of mourning David Bowie.

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Society causes trauma when it is against women’s right to choose

  I stand with Planned Parenthood. ********************* The thing I don't get about trauma is how people tell you to get over it. Stuff happens. Stuff does happen, but it doesn't make it right. It doesn't make it all right. Abuse happened to me through other children, adults I trusted, strangers, and these were all...

Fandom: a quick ramble

"Oh to be Not anyone Gone  This maze of being Skin." (Patti Smith, "Beneath the Southern Cross", Patti Smith Compete 1975-2006) I'm going out tonight to see Patti Smith talk about her newest book, M Train,  at the Design Exchange here in Toronto. I saw her perform once and that was by sure luck and...

The peripherals.

There are stages of grief I've bookmarked as schemas. Something about shock, denial, confusion, anger, and sadness. The feelings cycle like an eternal wound that will never heal. Eventually the wound might heal, but the scar is always there. It's all different stages and different outcomes for everyone. People parse things in various ways, in their own...

On Pluto and science.

It was my father who introduced the night stars to us; that is the stars in the way they're meant to be seen. My sister and I were aware of space, I mean, of course it's all around us, but it was on a road trip that we became viscerally attuned to its magic. Earlier...

Some random thoughts after Avant-Canada 2014.

"We use the term Conceptual Writing in the broadest sense, so that it intersects other terms such as: allegory, appropriation, piracy, flarf, identity theft, sampling, constraint and others. Conceptual Writing, in fact, might be best defined not by the strategies used but by the expectations of the readership or thinkership." - Place, Vanessa, and Robert Fitterman....

Writerly Blog Tour

 It's been a very busy week and a half with the Toronto International Film Festival going on, but I did get a poetry reading in. I performed a few pieces exclusively for Lindsay Cahill's HOMER'S ODYSSEY. It was a wonderful event where I had people yelling at a cardboard cloud I made. We're all Abe...

Second verse, same as the first: a long run on The Ramones

"Now I wanna run away from home now I wanna be all alone now" I was playing with my toys in my parents' living room when I learned that John Lennon had been shot. In 1994, I was putting away records at Radio Erindale with friends when Metal Mike ran in and said, "Cobain's gone,...

On the power of erotica and literal masturbation…

I have reviews in the queue to write and movies to finish watching, but it's Saturday. I'm lazy and procrastinating and it's what you do on day with nothing that's pressing on you to get done. I also blame this book for my dreamy state:   Tamara Faith Berger's Little Cat It's two of her...