memed!

[thingswithwings]

mirabile_dictu memed me! so now I will talk about the things she asked me to talk about.

Comments

[scifinut]

You's a Canadian too? Sweet! So's my wifey. :D

Rick Mercer is MY hero too, he's so hilarious.

Where in Canada are you from? I've been to Toronto and visited Vancouver for a day trip one day. Wife has never been outside Ontario (Toronto area, Peterborough, and now, Timmins). Do you have any ideas for areas to travel and visit up in Canada?

If you're eve in the midwest in the US, let me know and I'll tell you where to go.

[thingswithwings]

Rick Mercer rules - have you seen this episode of the Rick Mercer Report where he hangs out with David Suzuki? It's one of my favourite things. Rick's crush on David is HUGE and ADORABLE

[scifinut]

Fantastic, I'll check that link out and get a list of stuff. Eventually we want to take the entire railway system and travel the entire country, but that stuff sounds excellent. Dinosaur museums are always fun! :D

[prairiedaun]

The Laurier statue is the best, bar none. He's so dapper!

Also, LOL the Canadian middle bits. Represent!

[thingswithwings]

I know right? Dapper is exactly the right word.

I miss the middle bits! Aw.

[nixwilliams]

:D

i'd love to hear more of your thoughts about academic reading & response vs. fannish reading & response to texts. it's something i think about a lot, too.

[thingswithwings]

if they are ever fully formed (or, like, formed) I will be sure to write them down. :)

[nixwilliams]

do! yeah, mine are never realised completely, either. i keep making notes to myself in margins of photocopied articles and never getting around to putting them together!

[fish_echo]

I also vote for 'I'd read this if/when you post it'

[isagel]

I'm looking forward to the next round of kink_bingo - lately I've been storing porny fic ideas (mostly OT4) away, labelling them with mental post-it notes saying "If I get "Toys" for kink bingo, I will write this", "If I get "Piercing" for kink bingo, I will write that," etc. I have a whole little imaginary folder of these. So I will be prepared and possibly able to actually achieve a bingo this time. *g

[thingswithwings]

that is WONDERFUL re: kink_bingo . . . I cannot wait to read the wonderful smut that you come up with for this round! Also, psssst, we're changing some of the kinks around a bit, so if there's a kink you desperately want on the list, you should tell me about it. And yes, I think one of the reasons that I like your porn so much is that it has the same quality of boundary-pushing and play that I strive for in my fic - but I get to watch someone else doing that in their own way. PLUS IT'S HOT

[phnelt]

The story of how I stumbled onto your journal is long and complicated and I'm not sure I remember it entirely. However, I read "I'd cheat on her for Dionne Brand" and I kind of flipped out. I love Dionne Brand's poetry deeply. Even if she hadn't given everyone a whole lot of awesome, she would still have achieved a special place in my heart for the phrase 'no language is neutral'.

I just had to say that.

[thingswithwings]

hi! Dionne Brand fans are welcome here. I haven't read very much of her poetry, but I read In Another Place, Not Here all in a fever one weekend; it was really one of those lost-in-the-world-of-the-book, utter-absorption, can't-put-it-down experiences. Then I read What We All Long For, which is similarly amazing. And then a friend of mine lent me some of her nonfiction, No Burden to Carry and Blood out of Stone, and it was over, I was in love. :) Her prose is gorgeous, and she is - as you say - VERY smart about language. Is there a book of her poetry that you'd particularly recommend?

[phnelt]

I would definitely recommend No Language is Neutral. I don't have my physical book with me, only my photocopy with all the ramblings, so I can't be sure, but I think that is the one that contains my favourite poem, Hard Against the Soul. I love that poem, all ten parts of it. It alternates between the deeply personal and the political, and the tension between the two things. Also, porn. ok, I said that glibly, but I really had this visceral reaction to seeing my own sexuality portrayed like that

[thingswithwings]

Definitely not running! Though I read this sitting in the library, and reading the excerpts you quoted from make me feel a lot more emotion than I'm used to in this quiet quiet space. :) god, but her language shakes me up. I don't know why I never sought out her poetry before, but I'll definitely pick up No Language is Neutral; I'm so grateful to you for recommending it and reminding me that there are still several books of hers that I haven't read.

. . . I keep staring at these two passages you've quoted . . . "I trace / the pearl of your sweat to morning," up against "icy veined and bloodless through city alleys of wet light," and the trenches and barricades that don't escape her - "do not think that things escape me," rather than "that I don't escape," rather than escaping the bullet, the bullet doesn't escape her, oh wow.

thank you again for the rec! I think I'm going to do a little recs post on Canadian authors of colour sometime soon, and will be sure to link back to your rec of this poetry, if that's okay.