While having dinner at 7 West tonight we could hear some sort of hubbub in the street, some guy who’d gotten out of a car and was yelling at some […]

We just watched Open Water. Freaky. Even if I’d wanted to go scuba diving before – and I didn’t, really – there’s no way I’d go now. And it ended […]

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our […]

As I mentioned in earlier posts we were in Nova Scotia from the 19th-28th, driving to the four corners of the province and visiting most everyone we know there. These […]

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View it here. I’m ashamed to say I’ve only read two of these, but have a third sitting on my shelf. The Globe and Mail discusses here. Link yoinked from […]

defendjohnnycash.org If Springsteen had been dead in 1984 we’d have protested Reagan using “Born in the USA” too.

While on vacation I read two books (well, read one and finished the other): Moneyball by Michael Lewis (buy it) and Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code (buy it). Moneyball […]

Just got back from 10 days in Nova Scotia. Will post details later. For now, enjoy the demon dog. 

The Shortlist Prize long list is out. Sorry if this is old news; I’ve been disconnected for a while.