October 25 09
i’m applying for work all over this great, loyal dominion of ours right now. some of those positions are in places that can be far colder than it is where we live now. normally, i’m okay with that – after so many decades dealing with ridiculous wind chills, i can kinda-deal with the way that [...]
April 5 08
I am listening to some Sierra Maestra this afternoon in honour of our blessed early-April overcast skies in Halifax. I ought to be listening to these sunny tunes in honour of The Pineapples, who has gloriously abandoned our region for a much warmer climate for the next three months, but I’m pretty sure that [...]
January 20 08
Allen Ginsberg, “A Supermarket in California”.
Berkeley, 1955.
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
What peaches and what penumbras! [...]
January 15 08
Dana Gioia, “California Hills in August” (1982).
I can imagine someone who found
these fields unbearable, who climbed
the hillside in the heat, cursing the dust,
cracking the brittle weeds underfoot,
wishing a few more trees for shade.
An Easterner especially, who would scorn
the meagerness of summer, the dry
twisted shapes of black elm,
scrub oak, and chaparral — a landscape
August has already [...]
May 3 07
It is not without a sense of contentment that I have been living in southern California for the past several weeks. The long days of 30-35 degree weather, in a desert valley-turned-into-a-palm-tree oasis really does change one’s sense of being. California, you may be plastic and fake, but you complete me.
Life in southern [...]
April 19 07
Now he’s playing discus at Palm Springs High School. Stars of track and field are beautiful people.
Sitting down in a multi-national conglomerate Coffee Shop™ gives on the opportunity to develop slow, mundane rants that are highjacked by large shots of caffeine, turning the entire thoughts into an incomprehensible mess. This one seems to feature [...]
April 18 07
Rugged Brown Burnt Mountains
Glazed Starbucks Tasty Treat Machine
Non-fat soy grande venti latte
W cinnamon or sugar or
Salt or chocolate
Lotus land is a giant
Fragrant flavour shot
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Cathedral City is not Lotus Land. Lotus Land is some times Los Angeles, sometimes Vancouver, and much of the time a metaphor stripped away from Greek mythology and [...]