Monthly Archives: January 2008

On Vacation: 3 (Percussion)

So I am very much back form vacation, but still have a couple stories to tell. Our last days there we ventured off the resort because the food snobs in us were getting restless. We had some amazing fresh fish, … Continue reading

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Smiling is for Losers

I stumbled upon this comment about The Dears on the internet the other day: “great band, saw them live in 2006. what i want to know is, why did [Murray] have a baby with that keyboard player? she’s pretty, but … Continue reading

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No Clotheslines Allowed

Oh wow. As if suburban development wasn’t bad enough for killing communites and inner cities, they also hate the environment: Ontario Wants to End Clothesline Ban by Summer. In a quest for complete homogeny and quaint plain-ness, many housing developers … Continue reading

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On Vacation: 2 (Field Recordings)

By now the cockroach stories must be getting boring, so I’ll keep it brief: Murray battled the roach and got it out of our room, then there was another one yesterday that I vanquished. You must also be thinking: “What … Continue reading

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The Cockroach Story

I was talking to my mom on the phone when our friend, the 2-inch cucaracha, crawled over my foot. What’s up with this thing? Why does he like me so much? I discussed with my sister why cockroaches are so … Continue reading

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On Vacation: 1

I just brushed a 2-inch cockroach off my arm. I felt something on my back, but I thought it was my ponytail. Anyway, I jumped, it scuttled away, we opened the door to our room to let it out but … Continue reading

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The Death of All the Romance

I wrote this in March 2005 for some magazine, though I don’t even know if it was published. More of my usual rhetoric, and an interesting little omen… – Romance has been dying slowly since its heyday in the late … Continue reading

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Quit Gawking!

Since I apparently am done with poetry, writing — and therefore poets and writers, including, but not limited to, myself and all my friends — books and reading, I thought I would provide some personal background on the topic: Towards … Continue reading

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Poetry is Dead

Why does poetry still exist? I mean, really, it’s an archaic art form that had it’s revival during the heyday of the Poetry Slam a few years ago, and now should just go away. Like Netscape…not because they are useless … Continue reading

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