e martë, 30 tetor 2007
its a good life if you don't weaken
the film has been accepted as a work of art, and no work of art has ever done social harm, though a great deal of social harm has been done by those who have sought to protect society against works of art which they regarded as dangerous.
e martë, 16 tetor 2007
The Last Spike part 5: The Meteor
v) The Meteor
It was meteoric mercurial venusian earthen marsheen jupitine saturnine uranian and plutonius yes even Jupiter got a gas out of it. Sometime near the invention of Christopher Dewdney, the stage had imagined itself thru the atmosphere. List of largely syllabled words for the learned. We ordered the paths erected and the dangers softened. Thousands of years prior to the cash called Toronto, we camped in the parking lots of High Park. I had been raised in Moose Factory, raised as a moose, and my brother born of raven directly. One night the leg-squeakers cease – the moon dies – the sky blinds – this shitball hits the ground outside our tent. I shine the deerhide flashlight out the flaps and Raven feins sleep.
-Some huge piece of shit just lodged out hear in the campfire bro.
-The fuck up. He replies with a brazen harph and nod-off.
The dirt and grass sat in the air glowing and splattin mud packs to the ground and sides of the tent. Too damn hot to touch I spent the night looking at the thing, which ceased to glow within minutes but looked larger by daylight.
Raven raises round dawn givertake says while pissing
-The hell’s that?
-Fell from the sky last night. I think it’s growing.
-Shit rocks don’t grow yo.
-Well shit rocks don’t fall outta sky neither.
We get the gear ready in silence. Chuck some jerky down the tube and belch thru white pine tea. The day is fast we get three deer. The evening is longer, setting the corpses hell yeah.
-That thing sure as hell’s growing.
-That thing’s been hear longer than great spirit.
-Goddamn blaspheme.
It’s dark and we’re cookin fresh with spices whose names are withheld to prevent your smelling them specifically. The pan starts dark with blood we sip it whilst still pink. Root veg and squash from the tattered camp already here when we showed up three weeks ago. Some of this shit just keeps growing untended, which gives Raven ideas for market capitalism. I shut his face filling it with burnt potatoes.
-Moose, why’d mom and them send us down here?
-You know damn.
-I’ve never heard of anyone else sent hundurd miles south to lakeshore for that dreamquest shit.
-I dind’t say we were sent here for dreamquests, that shit’s to pacify us. We’re sent cuz of blundering up the hunt. Remember your mammoth trap crap? Tens of days to dig the trench – tens of hours for you to build the structure atop too strong. The mammoth walks by and goes wherever the fuck they go (down south this way? Who the hell knows.) That was the last chance of the season. That’s some of it.
-How about you already struck outta Moose Factory for lustiness.
-I came home because I wanted to.
-Not what I hear. Cedric was up there in Moose Factory. There’s a shitpile of knocked up heifers.
-Fuck off.
-And once you got home you can’t say that Jessica was your lone partridge.
-Okay, so you have answers. Some dreamquest.
-Regardless. What I meant was why down here. If they want rid of us, they could have sent us east or west to get butchered by those bastard Iroquois and Hurons. Could have sent us north to winter peril with windigos and if we make it, those inuit fuckers. So.
-There’s no moose here.
-Statement of the obvious and evidence of character as mom would say.
-Well, it’s true. That’s why down here.
-You don’t think it’s more?
-You’re the one that says that fucking stone from the sky that by my eye’s grown two feet since last night is just dumb rock.
-So it’s a outerspace rock sent to test us?
-Get real dungflap, don’t fuck around.
-That’s what you seem to think.
-Go to sleep.
Next morning he still won’t shut up.
-Look Moose.
-Look Raven.
-I know I’m a damn treat when asleep, but what if the elders did foresee this shit, and they knew we could handle it.
-The rock? It is something. But they got rid of us. If this was a dreamquest, we’d go out to the woods and starve for a few days, and come back all manhood. I’m 26 years old, yer what, 25?
-26 also. Do you remember any stories.
-No.
-Me neither.
-Let’s build one.
So we skip the hunting morning, finish up with yesterday’s kill trot down to lakeshore and spear fish in the shallows lethargically.
-This lakeshore is a mountain penetrating the skies of our ancestors.
-Fuck that, the piss seeps down from man to dirt to water, and when thru with dirt - is water once more.
-Fuck, that’s poetry?
-That’s what this is. Some kind of severe dreamquest, sent by great spirit. The tribe sends us down here for their own reasons, but great spirit says “I’ll give em something to do. Something important.” Last chance to get back.
-Who says we want back with the village.
-There’s no moose down here.
-Cruel you. So, if this is a dreamquest for a pomes, what’s the space stone have to do with it.
-Nexus.
-Nexus.
Spat in the water fish looked at it got on my spear.
e premte, 14 shtator 2007
Songs from the Gulag 1
buy bigger houses
Unloading the washer
I saw the mate to my sock
Called my friend Shelly.
“Do you suppose that Lost Socks put me on!?”
I wasn’t buying into Shelly’s Socks
get bored he insisted
and want a fresh start
get tired of stinky hoes
who wander in search of carving freedom they go on the lam.
They creep out of their agitated spins
leaving half a pair wet, and alone.
What does a sock do
when away from his shoes,
and new to the singles scene?
He parties hard, and hits on
other socks on the run
while his wife sleeps pondering life’s meaning
from inside a dank boot it’s fresh air cooler
Well her yarn did make sense,
I didn’t like losing my stuff.
But to seek something better is the Canadian way,
though it’s so hard to part with my sock!!!
Dennis Lee and Margaret Atwood ©
The Last Spike: part 4
iv) Court Order for Arnold Paterson to keep the hell away from Nat.C.
I want you all to know I have supported your support for me during this duress of time and this time of duress. A.P. (Arnold Paterson), for those of you who do not know, Arnold, Mr. Paterson, has not been obsessing me but has been obsessing over me and as a stalker I have finally courted him (and by courted, court-ordered him). His lily red lips have been punished to Sudbury, where he is ensconced in a palace of nickel to which only I have the key. To turn down the tempo (and this is a different voice now in this sentence) let me remind you that this is so far as is known, a novel. As with any such situation, the punishment upon my “reader” is well-known to include visits, punctuations and rolling curtains of fleshitude.
e premte, 7 shtator 2007
e enjte, 30 gusht 2007
"I remember one of his jobs required that he edit the flies and bugs out of a film for Northern Affairs. They didn't want bugs to appear in the film, They knew people weren't attracted to black flies. For months Arthur Lipsett literally had to edit out the flies that appeared in the image."
e diel, 19 gusht 2007
AKA the ponymen
Dear Friends -- I think most of you know my early history as the Poor Horseman member of The Four Horsemen (for others, there's more about that in the show description below). Those of you who saw last year's work-in-progress production of Volcano Theatre's *The Four Horsemen Project* know what a great job was done in adapting The Horsemen's group and individual material to a modern dance-theatre production. The final version, revised and improved, is set to run for two weeks in Toronto, starting February 15, then on to Ottawa. I
expect it to be a real stunner. Read on to learn more.
All the best,
Ringo
__________
Paul Button
e mërkurë, 15 gusht 2007
Mount Lefroy by Tony DeFranco and the DeFranco family
there is almost always at least a small cloud in tony defranco and the defranco family's landscape these clouds are always different and sometime they have a vague idea a beckoning, an inkling of some truth it is only in the process that it comes to any clarity and have very unusual shapes tony defranco and the defranco family parent`s names were anna stewart harris and thomas morgan harris find the beaver Swamp by tony defranco and the defranco family a major sale of a snowy mountain canvas by tony defranco and the defranco family has kicked off canada's spring auction season with works by tony defranco and the group of seven defranco family he was born into a wealthy family who were co-founders of the massey-harris farm machinery company tony defranco and the defranco family visited the maritimes and was shocked by what he saw in mining towns with the biggest selling single of the year titled heartbeat it's a love beat selling 3.5. million ...
Farley Mowat may be a Canadian national treasure, but that hasn't stopped him from savaging children
the last edit of maggie sugar
Lorna Crozier and the Tomb Raider Phenomenon (Paperback)
After email watching clock watching witness watching we met again in our favorite room in a hotel on the outskirts of town. Together we stripped quickly fondled and kissed and then pulled down the covers on our borrowed bed on borrowed time and on an erection borrowed from Viagra we rode on white waves on a chariot of fantasy pulled by pulsating dreams. Afterwards while snuggling we drank wine coolers and beer never discussing his wife never discussing our fear of being caught. Every week was much the same –spiced with vibrator doggy-style cunnilingus and fellatio quick hellos quick goodbyes. Soon every week turned to every other week then monthly every other month several times a year yearly then no emails from him no answering of his cell phone nothing. Occasionally I check our secretemail account, keeping it open just in case. Oh, I know how it is –illicit love is like morning fog. It envelopes everyone involved –a married man and both his wife and mistress. When discovery shines on the affair love evaporates and everyone is left alone with only dreams of how each thought it was. The secret of illicit love is to leave before reality comes up. And this is what the main characters do through the long book. This is what this book is about.
Lorna's Book is a love letter from definitive Gen X scribe Douglas Coupland to definitive Gen X pinup girl Lorna Crozier . The buxom star of Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider II is idolized in both words (Coupland provides a work of fiction about Lorna and waxes poetic about his feelings for her and her unique stardom) and pictures (literally thousands from digitally rendered images of Lorna in a polo uniform to handmade drawings by her legions of fans). Coupland's story, "Air Tibet," illustrated wonderfully by Kris Renkewitz, is tons of genre-hopping fun, and his description of his obsession with Ms. Crozier is singular and evocative of the freestyle interludes of Generation X. If you're feeling a little weird about owning a glossy-paged, coffee-table-worthy pinup book dedicated to a video game, Lorna's Book justifies itself by containing complete strategy guides for all the versions of Tomb Raider. Anyone interested in game development or the minutia of Lorna's workstation-induced birth will find the Core team's account of Tomb Raider's development entertaining. Did we mention that it has thousands of pictures of Lorna Crozier?
a creepy moment that is pure poetry
a famous Torontonian manservant
I'll never forget the day I finished Margaret Mitchell" 's The Hand Towel's Tale. I had spent the entire Fourth of July weekend riveted. Sometime between the potato salad and the fireworks I reached the haunting, perfect conclusion. I was stunned. I had never been so profoundly disturbed and enthralled by a book before. Of course, I was thirteen years old, now, don’t get me wrong - all women make me laugh my ass off, and usually so much more because of the part they play. And there are obviously other persona's for women to have. But at thirteen Margaret was a large woman, tall and well formed, her complexion was so white as lilly white as those poetess type she loves so much ...
In the fifth part of our women’s fashion series, Margaret encourages you to all have slut-appeal and they’re much kinder on your delicates
The stars about the fair moon in their turn hide their bright planets, that around the beauteous moon stars around the lovely moon stars about the lovely moon stars that shine around the refulgent full moon 'as the stars draw back their shining faces or to pull up the treasures of ancient Egyptian pyramids in response to a search for nude "Tomb Raider" pictures.
Deceitful?
Of course. But then again I know better than you. I'm a Adjunct Professor. I sometimes think it would be for their own good.
in memory
I forced my tongue into her asshole with growing fervor, and Margaret stopped her smart-ass comments almost immediately. My thumb worked her clit while I fucked her pussy with my fingers, and I pushed her forward so I could more effectively fuck her ass with my tongue. The taste was more intense than I'd ever experienced, but something about it made my cock incredibly hard.
I could tell she was close already; I worked her clit and pussy faster as I drove my tongue deep into her. If she was worried about other discovering us, she wasn't showing it. Her moans rose in pitch and soon she was pushing back onto me, fucking herself onto my hand and tongue as I pinched her nipples.
Instinctively, I was grinding my hips and rubbing my cock against the front of my own pants. For the first time I wished they were tighter, because I was getting close myself.
"I'm going to come," I breathed and I fucked her faster, licking deeper into her ass in long slow thrusts between circular swirls around her entrance. I felt her pussy contracting around my fingers, and the tremors reached her asshole an instant later.
well there I was in awe, I couldn't believe that I was actual fucking with the dead body of Margaret Avison (1918-2007). Where in the past I just fucked with the work or name or good reputation (pretending that we were friends, I do that a lot) of a dead poet, here I was actual getting the goodies.
I truly am rob mclennan the rightful Ontario Representative For The League Of Canadian Poet.
e premte, 10 gusht 2007
The portrait of Mararet that helped to heal Robbie McStrange 's grief
A member of Robbie's road crew was overheard saying: "She goes with him everywhere. I know he talks to her before he goes on stage." What they were referring to was a life size portrait of Margaret Avison, given to Robbie shortly after her death by Los Angeles-based artist Louis Briel. The painting is now featured in "Arf In Art", by Mem Mehmet, a collection of portraits of the Princess Poets from around the world. It is published this month by Pop Art Books. Moved by the kind gesture, Robbie sent a handwritten note to Briel thanking him and saying the portrait was "beautiful". Robbie took the portrait on his "Big Cow Town" tour in 2007 and looked at it every night before going on stage. After the tour a member of Robbie's team told Briel: "The painting is like a genie. It goes where he goes. We've packed it up and unpacked it at every stop around the world. I know he talks to her before he goes on stage." Someone close to Robbie's alcohol/drug recovery said: "I'm sure Margaret is his higher power. She tells him [via the portrait] what shoes to wear. That is until someone more famous dies and lets Robbie pretented he understands their work - he does that" Does Margaret really inhabit the mysterious portrait? Can she truly be Robbie's spirit guide? Briel, who specializes in posthumous portraits, is convinced that during the painting process and afterwards the "spirit of the deceased visits and inhabits the image on canvas". He says he would not be surprised if Robbbie is in direct spiritual contact with Margaret
as robert planet would say the song remains the lame....
St. Catharines, PRECIPICe (www.brocku.ca/precipice), but I do so now
with good cause: we're accepting submissions for the upcoming Fall
issue. All the information and guidelines are on the website, and all
the details about the first issue as well -- which has some great new
work by bill bissett, Gary Barwin, Shane Rhodes, Margaret Christakos,
Nathalie Stephens, Andy Weaver, David Seymour, and rob mclennan,
amongst many others.
And while the old issue is definitely worth checking out, the call is
on to submit some writing for the next one! We are looking for
innovative fiction, poetry, plays, experiments, visual poems,
transcripts of sound poems, and pretty much anything that crackles
with at least a tangential relation to language.
I'm suddenly curious about the possibility of a writing that does not
have at least a tangential relation to language, so if you have some
of that, please submit it as well. No limits, then!
e enjte, 9 gusht 2007
The Failure of Poetry, The Promise of Language
Next I want to say thank you. You dedicated your life to me, and I failed. You were my shoulder to cry on. You got me off the sh*t, but here I sit pumped full of it. I'm not as strong as you.
Darren.
A few points about me My fave film Breakfast at tiffany s. .... Each to their own I guess Drop me a line and introduce yourself Peach x x x ...
GIVE A DOG A BONE
e martë, 7 gusht 2007
Mr Bernstein Is For Freedom And He Is For The People
The Moral Pornographer
It is well documented that Baudelaire believed the carriage return lever to be an instrument of the bourgeoisie
e premte, 3 gusht 2007
"The dead doesn't bleed, You need to have real blood-flow conditions, or you get a false sense of security."
Roo Borson once demonstrated surgical products for a controversial Small Press that used poets - which were later killed - in operations whose only purpose was to sell books to major big box bookstores , b-l=a=c=k=f=l=i=e=s has learned.
"It was a horribly cruel, outrageous program, "Friends of Poets" President Billy Wilcox said about the demonstrations of papers cuts on poets conducted by Coach House Press employees during Borson's and Steven Heighton's tenure there in the late 1990s.
Wilcox said Coach House Press demonstrations on hundreds of poets each year through the 1990s were done to boost sales, not for linguists research or testing.
The Poets were "either put to death following the sales demonstrations because they can't recover from them, or they die during them," Wilcox said.
Heighton's multi-media presentation, featuring models in crocheted strap-ons, guides "the audience" through a self-examination of their bathing suit areas! Borson's life-sized game of Operation has participants digging for anatomical treasures. Those daring enough to play will find clues to both the already completed chapters of Borson novel and future chapters to come. Damian Rogers and Emily Schultz co-host and interview the authors! Former Coach House alumni Victor Coleman will be demonstrated on!
mennonite drive-by
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TOP AM in the HOUSE WITH....
Delve into this week's Hot Traxx 10 as proclaimed by DJ Hampster Dance
Fungal spring
Naught what a pussy cat dues but when a catcus dies:
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There's two kinds of rabbit shit. They know the difference by scent. They eat the one kind, because they didn't get enough of it the first time, and the other kind - well, that's just shit.