Settler words&music in S'ólh Téméxw, (leanpub.com/upsun) living where privilege meets precarity in MST country. she/her/they———– Novels: Midnite Moving Co., Upsun; Sweep Off Those Waves coming soon, Hair Sinister after that. —Restore All Indigenous Lands!
Alex, may she abide in bliss, has procured a ticket for me for a concert tomorrow night with Joe Ely, John Hiatt, Guy Clark and Lyle Lovett. As far as I can tell it’s like the male singer-songwriter version of an on-stage slumber party. I am really looking forward to it.
Unca Dave will be helping Paul, and, as it turns out, Janice, work on the renovations. Janice is in town to drop Casey off after a visit to Seattle. Casey has recently been published in On Spec.
For Sandy…. and for Cousin Gerald, here’s my little cousin Brayden and his ‘bro’ Charlie.
photo credit unknown, forwarded by Cousin Gerald
Paul used the opportunity, when Tom and Peggy dropped by for tea last night, to show them his 100 year old guitar. It’s not worth much because of all the work it’s had done on it… and it needs more, of course… but when in good fighting trim it’s the loudest 12 string I’ve ever heard. Tom much enjoyed the purfling. I only wrote that because it’s true, and because it’s a unique combination of English words.
I am feeling very blue about everything. I will have to work very hard all weekend to help Paul get the house ready for painting, and since I’ve erased this next part of the sentence four times now, I guess I’ll leave it at that.
It all started when Rob of Nine mentioned that he wanted to go see Cory’s talk. At first I shrugged it off, thinking, a) it wasn’t my idea and b) what? take an afternoon off work to do something intellectually stimulating? Continue reading Cory Doctorow Trip Report
I’ll be wandering up the hill to see him later and will blog at ya then.
A group of European scientists have determined that a male reindeer’s air sac, influencing vocal sound and neck contour, may contribute to his sexual prowess and reproductive success. The results of this research have recently been published in Journal of Anatomy.
As in other species with harem-like mating systems, the voice organs of reindeer differ according to gender. Adult males have a much larger air sac than females and the young.
Scanged from Eurekalert.org
It’s a wonderful movie and I highly recommend it.
This is kinda what happens when Scary Clown falls asleep and dreams of Nemo. Either that or in honour of International Women’s Day he’s telling me I smell like a fish. You never know with that guy.
photo credit Dalai Jarmo, and don’t blame him for the image quality, it’s from a cell phone cam…
It’s good to be a girl.
For the flyer for the next performance March 29 check out the ‘theatre’ page on her website http://www.whoscrazynow.com/
PHOTO CREDIT HEATHER
It’s entirely crappy outside, but for some reason I feel way better about the world today. Keith seems almost entirely healed up from his wisdom removal (he isn’t, but the swelling is way down) and he is hardly using any painkillers. He is steadfastly opposed to the unnececessary use of any drugs, prescription or not. Katie is cheerful about the world too. She’s decided not to get too upset about anything. Of course I could go on at great length about THAT.
One of my regular readers complained recently that I’m not WRITING ENOUGH.
Honestly, I didn’t know how to respond. With some effort, I said, “Well, I was kinda trying to take Thumper’s Mom’s advice, If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothin at all. But how ‘me’ is that? Perhaps I should be locking and loading, rocking and rolling, twitching and foaming, as per usual. But is this wise? Should I not be aspiring to Buddha like calm and a world view which encompasses monts et merveilles without losing any cool?
Speaking of cool, I’m off to see Cory Doctorow at SFU on Friday. I got the afternoon off. I’m going to go and get a beer, and then go to the washroom, and then line up, and then call Rob of Nine (typed Nice, which is hilarious, because Rob of Nine is many things but ‘nice’ is not in the top ten soubriquets which I would apply to him) to come up the hill and join me.
Air Canada is full of devastated employees today. The North Hangar is going to get entirely cleaned out.
Well, it’s time to suck back coffee and head for the salt mines. More later.
Seven hundred people just got laid off by Air Canada here in Vancouver. Paul isn’t one of them, but if somebody senior to him was laid off and wants to bump back onto line maintenance it could get dicey.