A Saucerful of Tawdry Secrets Typed Too Quickly While Listening to Godspeed...
1. What Reviews Might Accomplish In Glorious Zeal: Be more robust than a sound bite off the CP wire, haunt you like Banquo’s ghost or that extra burrito, heal our crazy mixed up universe, amuse, make...
View ArticleHow It Was Revealed To Me I was A Slovenly Loser: 33 Short Films About...
It’s post-high school (I hated high school). I work in Sporting Goods at The Bay, downtown Edmonton, maybe 1975. It’s post-work. We are naifs in a second floor lounge, mixed company drinking solar and...
View ArticleKingdoms and Knowledge [excerpt]
Once London had 21 rivers, a tidal wilderness of moorland and marsh, flooded daily, a swamp below a hill. I ask my relatives, What’s it like to be a rube in London now, to be new, a culchie, a...
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Irish Beaches part one
Climbing out of Shannon, our big jet lays its shadow over the Aran Islands and I spy a pretty white beach I’ve not stepped on since 1981. A thought strikes me — how many stunning sandy strands I’ve...
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Irish Beaches part two
From a wharf in Dingle’s harbour I step on a boat, the Peig Sayers, a very fast twelve passenger rib that will speed me to Great Blasket Island. As we move out to open water passengers sun themselves...
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