Lisa at AmidPrivilege wrote a probing, thoughtful post last Saturday on on-line personae and authentic selves. Of course, we in the post-structuralist, postmodern Humanities no longer believe in authenticity of the self anyway. But most…
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I thought that Lionel Shriver’s So Much for That might make a hat-trick, withthese other two titles, of books I couldn’t finish. The rants of one particular character — against office and government bureaucracies, against taxes,…
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Directed to the infectious video below by a Tweet from Sedulia, much-admired blogger of Rue Rude, I was reminded of spotting the firefighters on a “fire drill” somewhere around Etienne-Marcel, climbing one of their ladders into…
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I think what I love most about the photos from this road trip into BC’s Okanagan from the Coast (besides, the fun of discovering how useful a smartphone camera can be, even from a moving…
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Just finished reading Dionne Brand’s Ossuaries, twice. That is, I finished this book-length (124 pages) poem, and turned almost immediately to the beginning to read it through again. It’s stunning, difficult, tough, uncompromising, and wildly,…
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