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Q + A
From the middle to the end of the poem: What is to be?It is to bear a name.What is to die?It is to be name only.[…]What is to ask?It is to find an answer.What is to answer?Is it to find … Continue reading
Words in the Weeds
A whiff … As a beautiful flower that is full of hue but lacks fragrance, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who does not practice it. from The Dharmapada in Walpola Rahula What the Buddha Taught A … Continue reading
paratexts and patter
Ever noticed that a truncated acronym can have a marked effect on the public perception of an organization’s mandate? Take for instance CDC which expanded should net “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”. Minding ps and qs. In another matter, … Continue reading
Quid Pro Quo Quandary
The problem with fundamentalists, monotheist or not, is their intolerance of the unbeliever. The problem of unbelievers is that intolerance on the part of the faithful who do not abide by the precepts of their faith to practice tolerance. Which … Continue reading
Mark Amerika Meets the Dixie Chicks
One + Infinity “The important thing is to reembody sensual free zones while actively participating in the idealized gift economy.” Mark Amerika Dixie Chicks “Lullaby” refrain… How long do you wanna be loved Is forever enough, is forever enough How … Continue reading
creating a collaborative installation
Grayson James at the Ryerson Image Centre and the installation/project After Alexandria I became interested in this project at a point in my life when I was experiencing a loneliness unlike any I had before. As an avid reader, I … Continue reading
Cuisine Choreography
James Barber The Urban Peasant Cooking for Two Cooking for two is very intimate and very immediate. I very seldom start to cook of a guest until the doorbell rings, and then we do it together. Of course you can’t … Continue reading
Circumbendibus
Listening to a performance of Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer I delight in hearing this lovely enumeration and had to share the pleasure with mine eyes: I first took them down Feather-bed Lane, where we stuck fast in the … Continue reading
The Agon of Call and Response
I remember it from the movie as a devastating truth-telling moment but on the page it seems to fall flat. Harold’s speech to Michael in The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley: You are a sad and pathetic man. … Continue reading
Dance Craze Blaze
Elsewhere I have examined the closing scene of Queer as Folk in terms of the ongoing dance of the community. Here I cite Michael Lynch from These Waves of Dying Friends, the fifth section of “Sand” My friends who rarely … Continue reading