Alienated in Vancouver

God, what a grim, depressing movie this is. The whole film fairly rolls around in its own darkness. I normally can enjoy dark art, but this ...

The lineup for the 2005 Vancouver International Jazz Festival has been announced. Since it's what I know and get excited about, here ar...

Anyone else know this site ? They calculate the day and year of your death, based on a variety of factors (it's the BMI that kills me). ...

29596. Have I mentioned that number before? It's a really hard Free Cell.

Just watched Gillo Pontecorvo's film, The Battle of Algiers . One I'd highly recommend -- an essential film, and I can readily under...

Canadian sound poet bill bissett , who performed as part of an xcellent series of readings in Maple Ridge that my friend Liz organized, wil...

Okay, so I've been a bad Winks groupie lately. I missed their CBC performance and I didn't even know about Tyr's cello recital u...

...no doubt the above lame joke has surfaced elsewhere, along with various riffs about giving Wendy's the finger, but the finger story ...

Yesterday's brief chat with Attila Richard Lukacs appears to have influenced an odd dream I had last night, where Noam Chomsky gave a sp...

I discovered Attila Richard Lukacs (pronounced Lukash, by the way, in the Hungarian manner) on a high school field trip to the Vancouver A...

Just had my second encounter with the realm of bird rescue... My first was when I rescued a parakeet that had escaped from its owner's a...

Signs everywhere, shops everywhere: downtown, almost everywhere one goes there's an opportunity to spend money. To confirm your power as...

As I promised, "the next time I'm stoned..." Tho' I been drinkin', too. (Actually, I did this exercise with my ESL stu...

A 17 year old has been arrested for stealing a skull , allegedly planning to make some sort of water pipe out of it. I'd like to see wha...

Salman Rushdie on how US unilateralism aids international terrorism . Culture consumed this week: Kira Muratova, Borodin Quartet, Nurse with...

Okay, so it's not that inspired a posting, but check out the feet on this bird!

Well, a combination of personal issues, other writing projects getting underway, and a busy work schedule have kept me from blogging much, b...

A bill is being passed in the US whereby students can sue professors for not teaching them what they want to be taught, not respecting the ...

If anyone has a whole lot of money and wants to fly me to England to see Jandek play live on May 22nd, I will gladly assent to give up my s...

You know, I've been idly following all the rather predatory media hype over Terry Schiavo and her feeding tube, and I have to put in my...