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I <3 Atwood forever
Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale, (and my personal favourites: Oryx and Crake and Year of the Flood), slyly lampoons Harper with Election 2011, a Dark Fiction:
A vacuum cleaner salesman comes to your door. “You must buy this vacuum cleaner,” he says. “Why?” you say. “Because I know what’s good for you,” he says. “I know things you ( Read more... ) -
Canadian Olympics Poet Shane Koyczan adds his voice to ShitHarperDid.com
"Wasted Vote" by Shane Koyczan
Shane Koyczan and the Short Story Long have come out with a haunting new track just in time for the May 2nd polls,
reminding people that there's no such thing as a wasted vote, only a wasted election.
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I just saw a bald eagle snatch a fish from the water
"A kiss would do it.
One sprinkle of milkwhite salt
and I'll break like bread at your table."
- S. SloatUncertain about my weekend away, I find everything I wanted to write about draining away, replaced by the landscape outside the train windows. There is a large, strange boat abandoned on part of the shore, a hulking, rotten thing, the discarded ( Read more... ) -
pagentry!!
Currently watching the Vancouver Olympics Opening Ceremony live on-line while tucked in cosy out of the rain in Seattle.
I wasn't going to, but apparently Shane's slated to perform at some point, so now I'm glued to it, waiting for him to show up and astonish and mesmerize the largest Canadian television audience in history.
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I'm alive!
I picked up my passport today. The pretty young man behind the counter had a chocolate coin festively tied around his neck with shining pink-yellow ribbon. When I asked about it, he explained he'd won an award in the office today, then slyly showed me a glimpse of a rather official looking document that stated OFFICE CLOWN. "That's a good thing to ( Read more... ) -
a bit of random curiosity
Something I only noticed recently about Canada, in that way where one realizes things about home only when one is away, is that we're incredibly soft with our Metric System. Our highway signs are in kilometers, but we typically measure height in feet and inches and weight in pounds. Though I was raised with only metric in my textbooks, my units of ( Read more... )
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