Today’s Globe and Mail is overrun with fawning praise for a billionaire. Among the headlines “He liked poking around antique shops and buying at Loblaw’s.”
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Letter to a Friend Who Wants to Start Up a Blog
Here’s an email I sent a friend this weekend. Not sure why I’m feeling like reproducing it here, but I do. Dear XXXX, You asked about getting into blogging. As far as front end goes, I recommend blogspot over the others. Seems relatively straightforward and reliable. And it doesn’t come with a “rep” like livejournal …
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Moving Right Along
So the writing thing has been going well and I’m hopelessly behind on email (sorry if you’re waiting for one, it just means I had to think about something you wrote). We’ve got a guest in town this week from grad school (she’s now a librarian at Cornell) and will do some fun tooling around …
The New Regime
This is a boring post about my work process and issues therein. My main goal this summer is to write. And lead a relatively unhurried life. Everything else is icing on the cake. I’ve got this book on the mp3 format that has been simmering for two years now. I’ve got loads of material and …
I really do love team sports so long as nobody cares if we win
On a not-so-hot midsummer night (last night, to be precise), I had the pleasure of taking the field with the False Consciousness for their second softball game of the season. It was by some measures a success. I set a personal goal that we lose by less than 10 runs. We lost 24-15. We were …
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Back in Effect
It’s been a long month (more like 5 weeks) and I have much to report on. But since my return on Sunday, my writing efforts have turned to the book and a Bad Subjects oped linked below. The blog shall not suffer for long, though, as it is really summer now. Which means, among other …
New Text
1. A Bad Subjects op-ed on Christy Blatchford’s racist column from Monday’s Globe and Mail 2. “Lost recordings / Les enregistrements perdus” in Traces, ed. Nicole Gringas, 73-92. Montreal: Galerie Leonard and Bina Ellen, 2006.