Alienated in Vancouver

Torture Chamber Choir, pics by Kevin; not to be used without permission I missed many gigs because of this move, needless to say. The Subhu...

What a fucking five day stretch. (This continues my digressive personal writing - for VIFF reviews and an update on Motorhead, see below...

Sept. 27th: Jesus, what a last couple of months. (Pardon my insertion of another personal post). It's currently 2:16 AM (my father's...

Photo provided by Michael Muhammad Knight: "from my wrestling match with Abdullah the Butcher at the Decatur Book Festival, photo by Ki...

The Kominas, by James Moreau-Drew. Not to be used without permission. A brief synopsis of the film Taqwacore: The Birth Of Punk Islam (offi...

Photograph by Robert John Hey, folks! I previously told y'all in my interview with Lemmy in The Skinny , based on then-current informat...

The author with Reg Harkema, with Ifny to the left of us and Flick Harrison to the right. Photo by David Repa, we think. I will be preoccup...

Nardwuar and Thor, by Femke Van Delft. Not to be used without persimmons. I just saw the funniest thing in my kitchen today - almost unbeli...

A local musician who doesn't play live much has posted a song I co-wrote with him on Youtube. Check it out . (He posted it awhile ago bu...

Do you smell anything funny? Remember Tracey, the 47 year old homeless woman who unintentionally immolated herself on Davie Street during th...

Wow... lotta concerts this weekend. Haven't decided about The Jolts/SNFU/DOA at the Commodore on the 25th, but it seems like it shouldn...

...is out in the new issue of The Skinny. Yep, I interviewed Lemmy. Check it out.

Interesting little study, here , on the cognitive-enhancing effects of "meaning threats."

I do not in any way understand the desire to have sex with, or to get off on sexualized pictures of, children. At some point, after I moved ...

Backyard (official site here , in Spanish) will likely prove one of the more entertaining, large-scale entries in this years' VIFF; it...

Sweetgrass (official site here ) is designed as an "elegy" for a fading way of life, since, titles at the end explain, the sheep ...