Monday, April 13, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Wonderfull up for London Reads - VOTE!
Hello all,
As many of you know, my friend Neil had his first book published last year. What many of you may not know is that the book was included in London Reads, a competition like Canada Reads, but specific to London, Ontario. This is a huge honour and he's up against some heavy hitters like The Book of Negroes, which won this year's Canada Reads and the Commonwealth award.
Please take a moment out of your day to vote for Wonderfull by William Neil Scott here: http://www.londonreads.uwo.ca/vote.html .
And if you feel like forwarding this to anyone else, please do. The more votes the better. If you have not yet had a chance to read Wonderfull, I highly recommend doing so - both Chapters and Amazon have copies for sale.
As many of you know, my friend Neil had his first book published last year. What many of you may not know is that the book was included in London Reads, a competition like Canada Reads, but specific to London, Ontario. This is a huge honour and he's up against some heavy hitters like The Book of Negroes, which won this year's Canada Reads and the Commonwealth award.
Please take a moment out of your day to vote for Wonderfull by William Neil Scott here: http://www.londonreads.uwo.ca/
And if you feel like forwarding this to anyone else, please do. The more votes the better. If you have not yet had a chance to read Wonderfull, I highly recommend doing so - both Chapters and Amazon have copies for sale.
Monday, March 09, 2009
15 albums that changed the way I think about music.
A tough list to compile, given that it isn't really made up of my favourite albums but the ones that made those favourites what I listen to...
1. I hear a lot of talk about Raffi but for me, the story begins with Fred Penner's album The Cat Came Back. He covers John Cash, riffs on sleep as living metaphor, delights in sandwiches and, frankly, I still play guitar the way Fred taught. When I play at all, that is. Besides, he used to come play at our school.
2. One of the first to really get me is The Moody Blues' album A Question of Balance. For those who kvetch about the band forming to sell Hi Fi stereos I can only respond: precisely. I know the lo fi movement's all about glorifying the sound of shit, but it still sounds like shit. This is the album that taught me to pay attention to narrative in music and, I imagine like Pink Floyd probably did for lots of people, taught me to listen to entire albums as coherent productions.
3. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Uncle Charlie and His Dog Teddy. I learned to dance with my mom to their cover of Mr. Bojangles, the title of which was also my dad's CB handle. Rhythm and blues and folk all rolled into one, this album will always mean orange carpet, wooden speaker boxes, and the smell of diesel to me - and I will always love stripped down country music (I'm lookin' at you, Mr. Lund).
4. John Denver, Poems and Prayers and Promises. Men can also sing like angels. Turns out, John Denver was an angel of death and I really got a different read on his lyrics when I found out he was a navy sniper in Vietnam: "he was born in the summer of his 27th year, far away from a place he'd never been before", "sunshine, almost all the time, makes me hide".
5. Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen. Just like that, I became an American. The first album I ever memorized start to finish, this album will always keep me programmed for the work of a serious bard and I will likely never fully recover from the way it colonized my cultural sensibilities. And damn, can he rock.
6. Eliminator/Afterburner, ZZTop. Blues meets techno. Innovation can also be slick and there is nothing slicker than these two albums, with the possible exception of Robert Palmer's hair. The Afterburner tour was the occasion of my first concert, at the Winnipeg arena, and the band actually fogged the entire arena and flew the Afterburner spaceship around it in lasers. Holy crap. And to think, the show was a makeup for my mom going to see Tears for Fears with dad instead of me...
7. Platinum Blonde: Alien Shores. This was the first tape I bought with my own cash and completely changed the way I heard bass and rhythm in music. I recognise now that Platinum Blonde were kind of a Canadian love child of Yes and Flock of Seagulls but the syncopated driving synth and bass that powers their songs still echoes in my brain.
8. Born to Be Stupid, Wierd Al Yankovic. Everything can be mocked and all songs may be polkas. Every punk band that thinks their covers are funny needs to play Devo with an accordion. Every pop band that takes themselves too seriously needs to beware the accordion.
9. The Dead Milkmen: Death Rides a Pale Cow. Fuck their covers are funny. Their originals even better. Proof that lo-fi shit can blow your mind and justify your hatred of douchebags.
10. Katrina and the Waves: Walking on Sunshine. I blame puberty for this. Filthy, horrid little hormones. I would play the title track over and over, singing at the top of my lungs until I collapsed in tears. Living in a new city, an undersized weird little kid with no friends, convinced that my brothers and I were just bargaining chips in the hate-fuck that was our parents' divorce, I was desperately trying to feel good. There's goodness to be found in pop music.
11. NWA: Straight Outta Compton. Sometimes having the way you listen to music change can be a bad thing. This album caused more adolescent bullshit misogeny than perhaps anything before or since. I wasn't immune and may still be trying to recover from the shit this put in my head. Gangsta is amazing, infectious, and in its day a vital resistance to authority. But it's no hip-hop and the message will only hurt us all in the end.
12. de la Soul: 3 Feet High and Rising. The solution. It's a crying shame there are so few decent hip-hop albums made anymore, though I will certainly give honourable mentions to the Fugees' The Score and, despite his subsequent descent into ridiculous arrogance, K-Os' Joyful Rebellion.
13. Rage Against the Machine: eponymous. The last original thing to happen to rock and proof that rage can matter. Tom Morello might actually be the best rock guitarist around (with Slash, somewhere up there) and Zach de la Rocha's rap/snarl/scream might sound thin compared to some of his newer, slicker imitators but none of them will ever, ever have the impact of this album. Like a sledge hammer to the fucking eyes: you're stunned but can't stop twitching.
14. Tom Petty: Greatest Hits. Who knew that a basic greatest hits album could actually blow your mind? Every song triggers an "man, I love this song, it's my favourite by him!" response, making me feel like a complete weiner by the end. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I lovelovelove the journeyman road through Petty's career that he built with this compilation - the artist as album.
15. Sarah McLaughlin: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. Love and beauty and rightness. One of the two albums on this list I still listen to on a regular basis because I will always need love and beauty and rightness.
1. I hear a lot of talk about Raffi but for me, the story begins with Fred Penner's album The Cat Came Back. He covers John Cash, riffs on sleep as living metaphor, delights in sandwiches and, frankly, I still play guitar the way Fred taught. When I play at all, that is. Besides, he used to come play at our school.
2. One of the first to really get me is The Moody Blues' album A Question of Balance. For those who kvetch about the band forming to sell Hi Fi stereos I can only respond: precisely. I know the lo fi movement's all about glorifying the sound of shit, but it still sounds like shit. This is the album that taught me to pay attention to narrative in music and, I imagine like Pink Floyd probably did for lots of people, taught me to listen to entire albums as coherent productions.
3. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Uncle Charlie and His Dog Teddy. I learned to dance with my mom to their cover of Mr. Bojangles, the title of which was also my dad's CB handle. Rhythm and blues and folk all rolled into one, this album will always mean orange carpet, wooden speaker boxes, and the smell of diesel to me - and I will always love stripped down country music (I'm lookin' at you, Mr. Lund).
4. John Denver, Poems and Prayers and Promises. Men can also sing like angels. Turns out, John Denver was an angel of death and I really got a different read on his lyrics when I found out he was a navy sniper in Vietnam: "he was born in the summer of his 27th year, far away from a place he'd never been before", "sunshine, almost all the time, makes me hide".
5. Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen. Just like that, I became an American. The first album I ever memorized start to finish, this album will always keep me programmed for the work of a serious bard and I will likely never fully recover from the way it colonized my cultural sensibilities. And damn, can he rock.
6. Eliminator/Afterburner, ZZTop. Blues meets techno. Innovation can also be slick and there is nothing slicker than these two albums, with the possible exception of Robert Palmer's hair. The Afterburner tour was the occasion of my first concert, at the Winnipeg arena, and the band actually fogged the entire arena and flew the Afterburner spaceship around it in lasers. Holy crap. And to think, the show was a makeup for my mom going to see Tears for Fears with dad instead of me...
7. Platinum Blonde: Alien Shores. This was the first tape I bought with my own cash and completely changed the way I heard bass and rhythm in music. I recognise now that Platinum Blonde were kind of a Canadian love child of Yes and Flock of Seagulls but the syncopated driving synth and bass that powers their songs still echoes in my brain.
8. Born to Be Stupid, Wierd Al Yankovic. Everything can be mocked and all songs may be polkas. Every punk band that thinks their covers are funny needs to play Devo with an accordion. Every pop band that takes themselves too seriously needs to beware the accordion.
9. The Dead Milkmen: Death Rides a Pale Cow. Fuck their covers are funny. Their originals even better. Proof that lo-fi shit can blow your mind and justify your hatred of douchebags.
10. Katrina and the Waves: Walking on Sunshine. I blame puberty for this. Filthy, horrid little hormones. I would play the title track over and over, singing at the top of my lungs until I collapsed in tears. Living in a new city, an undersized weird little kid with no friends, convinced that my brothers and I were just bargaining chips in the hate-fuck that was our parents' divorce, I was desperately trying to feel good. There's goodness to be found in pop music.
11. NWA: Straight Outta Compton. Sometimes having the way you listen to music change can be a bad thing. This album caused more adolescent bullshit misogeny than perhaps anything before or since. I wasn't immune and may still be trying to recover from the shit this put in my head. Gangsta is amazing, infectious, and in its day a vital resistance to authority. But it's no hip-hop and the message will only hurt us all in the end.
12. de la Soul: 3 Feet High and Rising. The solution. It's a crying shame there are so few decent hip-hop albums made anymore, though I will certainly give honourable mentions to the Fugees' The Score and, despite his subsequent descent into ridiculous arrogance, K-Os' Joyful Rebellion.
13. Rage Against the Machine: eponymous. The last original thing to happen to rock and proof that rage can matter. Tom Morello might actually be the best rock guitarist around (with Slash, somewhere up there) and Zach de la Rocha's rap/snarl/scream might sound thin compared to some of his newer, slicker imitators but none of them will ever, ever have the impact of this album. Like a sledge hammer to the fucking eyes: you're stunned but can't stop twitching.
14. Tom Petty: Greatest Hits. Who knew that a basic greatest hits album could actually blow your mind? Every song triggers an "man, I love this song, it's my favourite by him!" response, making me feel like a complete weiner by the end. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I lovelovelove the journeyman road through Petty's career that he built with this compilation - the artist as album.
15. Sarah McLaughlin: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. Love and beauty and rightness. One of the two albums on this list I still listen to on a regular basis because I will always need love and beauty and rightness.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Submit to STEPHEN HARPER
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Announcing the formation of a new Canadian literary magazine!
STEPHEN HARPER: a journal of the literary arts
Dedicated to the publication of Canadian literary talent, STEPHEN
HARPER is looking for said talent to bombard our inbox with your best
writing. We are looking for submissions from across Canada in both
official languages.
Submissions should be made via email to
stephen.harper.literary.concern@gmail.com . Submissions should remain
under 1 page as budget constraints are also size restraints. Deadline
is as soon as possible! We will start reading as soon as submissions
start rolling in!
We look forward to reading your submissions!
ryan fitzpatrick & Natalie Zina Walschots
STEPHEN HARPER Managing Editors
About STEPHEN HARPER:
STEPHEN HARPER was started as the first magazine under new funding
guidelines made by the Canadian Periodical Fund. We believe that the
best response to these new guidelines is to try to produce a literary
journal streamlined enough to meet the new realities of today's
publishing industry. STEPHEN HARPER has an official subscription base
of 413 – each MP and senator in the Canadian government is a
subscriber, including our namesake! As well, STEPHEN HARPER will be
starting a list of unsubscribers (the SH! list) of people not quite
lucky enough to be members of Canada's own government, but who still
wish to receive the light of STEPHEN HARPER into their heart.
--
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
~Emma Goldman
Announcing the formation of a new Canadian literary magazine!
STEPHEN HARPER: a journal of the literary arts
Dedicated to the publication of Canadian literary talent, STEPHEN
HARPER is looking for said talent to bombard our inbox with your best
writing. We are looking for submissions from across Canada in both
official languages.
Submissions should be made via email to
stephen.harper.literary.
under 1 page as budget constraints are also size restraints. Deadline
is as soon as possible! We will start reading as soon as submissions
start rolling in!
We look forward to reading your submissions!
ryan fitzpatrick & Natalie Zina Walschots
STEPHEN HARPER Managing Editors
About STEPHEN HARPER:
STEPHEN HARPER was started as the first magazine under new funding
guidelines made by the Canadian Periodical Fund. We believe that the
best response to these new guidelines is to try to produce a literary
journal streamlined enough to meet the new realities of today's
publishing industry. STEPHEN HARPER has an official subscription base
of 413 – each MP and senator in the Canadian government is a
subscriber, including our namesake! As well, STEPHEN HARPER will be
starting a list of unsubscribers (the SH! list) of people not quite
lucky enough to be members of Canada's own government, but who still
wish to receive the light of STEPHEN HARPER into their heart.
--
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
~Emma Goldman
Monday, February 23, 2009
Harper to cancel funding for Lit Mags
Quill & Quire
News
Litmags threatened by new funding guidelines
February 20, 2009 | 6:34 PM | By Stuart Woods
The Harper Tories have promised to maintain existing funding levels for
the countrys magazine industry ($75.5-million annually), but guidelines
announced this week for the new Canada Periodical Fund could put Canadas
small-run literary magazines in jeopardy.
The new Canadian Heritage-run program merges two other federal funding
bodies the Canada Magazine Fund and the Publications Assistance Program in
an effort to streamline operations and tie support of the periodical
sector to the reading choices of Canadians. This new system wont become a
reality until at least 2010, but when it does, funds will be allocated
using a formula based on paid circulation, and magazines with less than
5,000 annual subscribers will be shut out altogether.
The new formula would be a huge blow to the small number of literary
publishers that depend on Heritage to survive, including
respected journals such as The Literary Review of Canada, The Malahat
Review, and Matrix, which have typically received annual subsidies ranging
from about $15,000 to $20,000. As it currently stands, the minimum
circulation requirement would exclude pretty much every literary and arts
magazine in the country, says editor Andris Taskans, whose Winnipeg
quarterly Prairie Fire relies on Heritage money for a significant portion
of its operating budget and about half of its postage costs.
Taskans says the new guidelines are a deliberate slap in the face to small
magazines, and that he would like to see the special status of literary
magazines restored. Says Matrix editor-in-chief Jon Paul Fiorentino, whose
magazine has published early works by authors like Heather ONeill and
Pasha Malla, Theres value to what we do beyond the number of readers we
get per issue.
According to the Canadian Heritage release, the department is still
finalizing the guidelines, so theres still room to have them
revised, if not removed completely. People have to be realistic that there
will be some form of minimum,says Mark Jamison, CEO of the trade group
Magazines Canada, so the question is, how do we manage a specific
challenge for a very specialized sector?
Jamison believes theres reasonable hope that Heritage will ease its
restriction on small magazines if the literary community succeeds in
bringing its message to Ottawa.
http://www.quillandquire.com/omni/article.cfm?article_id= 10538
Friday, February 20, 2009
Calgary Performance
I'll be performing in Calgary next week at the following...
*MISC Presents #1
Friday, February 27, 2009
9:30 PM
The Palomino
109-7th Avenue SW
Cover: $10
Event Purpose:
*MISC Presents is a new events series celebrating the appreciation of more than one genre at a time. A night for evolved humanoids! *(Mutual Inspiration Society of Calgary) A portion of proceeds will go to Inn from the Cold charity.
Featuring Bands:
Gutterawl (rock), Dolly Sillito (indie), & Cowpuncher (roots)
Featuring: Poets:
Wakefield Brewster (Calgary Slam! Champion), Colin Martin (filling Station Magazine), Markus Overland (Gutterawl / Lucid 44), & beautiful newcomer Marie Specht.
Listing:
Fri Feb 27th – *MISC Presents Gutterawl, Dolly Sillito, & Cowpuncher. With Wakefield Brewster, Marie Specht, Markus Overland & Colin Martin. 9:30, Palomino Smokehouse (downstairs)
Contact:
Laurie Fuhr, Event Manager
Mutual Inspiration Society of Calgary (*MISC)
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
the dirty pants
hey does anyone want a pair of wrongly used men's dress pants? i did something in them i'm trying to suppress and must divorce myself from ownership of the pants.
no reasonable offer will be refused.
for obvious reasons, pictures can not be provided, though i may permit you to fondle them in the alley while i videotape you.
no reasonable offer will be refused.
for obvious reasons, pictures can not be provided, though i may permit you to fondle them in the alley while i videotape you.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
NōD Launch
Issue 9 Launch is a go!
We will be holding the launch party at Weeds' cafe, 1903 20 Avenue NW
Calgary (on the corner of 18 St and
20 Ave NW) at 7:30 pm on Friday, February 20th.
Readers include Tyler Perry, Lorne Macdonald, Sarah Gibbs and Derek Beaulieu
Also in the blast radius, music by James Dangerous and the CIA.
--
NōD Magazine
Department of English, University of Calgary
2500 University Drive N.W.
Calgary, AB
T2T 1N4
nodmagazine@gmail.com
We will be holding the launch party at Weeds' cafe, 1903 20 Avenue NW
Calgary (on the corner of 18 St and
20 Ave NW) at 7:30 pm on Friday, February 20th.
Readers include Tyler Perry, Lorne Macdonald, Sarah Gibbs and Derek Beaulieu
Also in the blast radius, music by James Dangerous and the CIA.
--
NōD Magazine
Department of English, University of Calgary
2500 University Drive N.W.
Calgary, AB
T2T 1N4
nodmagazine@gmail.com
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Call for Submissions
Calling all thieves, bandits and poachers,
Our theme for Issue #10 is "thievery"
NōD, University of Calgary's undergraduate-run magazine, publishes
poetry, prose and visual art, inviting innovative creative endeavors.
We publish the creative work of undergraduates, emerging and
established artists alike.
Deadline:
March 15, 2009
How to Submit:
Email: nodmagazine@gmail.com
By Mail: at the below address
*NōD cannot be held accountable for any legal action resulting from
intellectual or material theft.
--
NōD Magazine
Department of English, University of Calgary
2500 University Drive N.W.
Calgary, AB
T2T 1N4
Our theme for Issue #10 is "thievery"
NōD, University of Calgary's undergraduate-run magazine, publishes
poetry, prose and visual art, inviting innovative creative endeavors.
We publish the creative work of undergraduates, emerging and
established artists alike.
Deadline:
March 15, 2009
How to Submit:
Email: nodmagazine@gmail.com
By Mail: at the below address
*NōD cannot be held accountable for any legal action resulting from
intellectual or material theft.
--
NōD Magazine
Department of English, University of Calgary
2500 University Drive N.W.
Calgary, AB
T2T 1N4
Sunday, December 14, 2008
No Surprise
I, for one, was astonished at the level of ignorance that came up from people, bluntly, who should know better.
If you don't know what your government is, don't tell me what it should be.
If you don't know what your government is, don't tell me what it should be.
Saturday, December 06, 2008
call for papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
Open Letter is seeking critical and creative submissions for a special issue dedicated humour in experiental poetry.
"Why Are You Laughing" will be guest-edited by Jonathan Ball and Ryan Fitzpatrick.
A common complaint of poetry pundits is that experimental poetry tends to entail a humourless flaunting of critical theory. Yet within this field, there are a number of poets that make use of humour as a literary tactic. How exactly is humour used in experimental poetry, and what are its effects? In what ways could we theorize humour in terms of poetry and language in general? Is humour useful as a destabilizing device, or is it politically benign? Can humour make difficult poetry more accessible to a general readership, or does it provide a pretext for dismissing such work?
Possible topics could include (but are not limited to):
* humour and pop references
* irony and/or the failure of irony
* the absurd
* humour as a coping mechanism
* political uses of humour
* humour as an attack on authority
* shock humour
* specific schools or movements for whom humour is important
Please send proposals (350-500 words) by January 1, 2009 to Jonathan Ball or Ryan Fitzpatrick. If proposals are accepted, final papers will be due June 1, 2009.
http://publish.uwo.ca/~fdavey/call.htm
Open Letter is seeking critical and creative submissions for a special issue dedicated humour in experiental poetry.
"Why Are You Laughing" will be guest-edited by Jonathan Ball and Ryan Fitzpatrick.
A common complaint of poetry pundits is that experimental poetry tends to entail a humourless flaunting of critical theory. Yet within this field, there are a number of poets that make use of humour as a literary tactic. How exactly is humour used in experimental poetry, and what are its effects? In what ways could we theorize humour in terms of poetry and language in general? Is humour useful as a destabilizing device, or is it politically benign? Can humour make difficult poetry more accessible to a general readership, or does it provide a pretext for dismissing such work?
Possible topics could include (but are not limited to):
* humour and pop references
* irony and/or the failure of irony
* the absurd
* humour as a coping mechanism
* political uses of humour
* humour as an attack on authority
* shock humour
* specific schools or movements for whom humour is important
Please send proposals (350-500 words) by January 1, 2009 to Jonathan Ball or Ryan Fitzpatrick. If proposals are accepted, final papers will be due June 1, 2009.
http://publish.uwo.ca/~fdavey/call.htm
Friday, November 28, 2008
untitled (from pronoun)
you daunt me with your knowledge
breadth of reading i cannot know
all that you know
i know how to ride a bicycle
for six hours without
tiring
i know how to swim across
a lake filled with
shadows and teeth
i know how to run circles
around the bases
of mountains, and,
how to plummet from
their saw-edged peaks
i know how to raise the
fine hairs from any part
of a person's body
with my breath
i know how to drive a
car sideways, how to drive a
long nail straight, to climb a
tree without branches
i know how to read a book
for its spaces, a government
for the paper its poems
are printed on, a nation
for the colours its currency
bleeds
i know how to raise adults
and lower children
and why both are necessary
i know the tastes of woods
i know the tapping of guitar
string calluses, the sound
my voice in laughter, the angle
my mouth to mouthpieces
i know a three-year tan line
the cinnamon musk of a
sleeping puppy, the rasp of kittens
licking my ear while i giggle
i know a good photo, a moment
i'll never forget and how to love
a chance encounter forever
i know an idea
comprehended, a strike
of lightning, the
numbness that follows
i know the first person
hates poetry or vice versa
and
breadth of reading i cannot know
all that you know
i know how to ride a bicycle
for six hours without
tiring
i know how to swim across
a lake filled with
shadows and teeth
i know how to run circles
around the bases
of mountains, and,
how to plummet from
their saw-edged peaks
i know how to raise the
fine hairs from any part
of a person's body
with my breath
i know how to drive a
car sideways, how to drive a
long nail straight, to climb a
tree without branches
i know how to read a book
for its spaces, a government
for the paper its poems
are printed on, a nation
for the colours its currency
bleeds
i know how to raise adults
and lower children
and why both are necessary
i know the tastes of woods
i know the tapping of guitar
string calluses, the sound
my voice in laughter, the angle
my mouth to mouthpieces
i know a three-year tan line
the cinnamon musk of a
sleeping puppy, the rasp of kittens
licking my ear while i giggle
i know a good photo, a moment
i'll never forget and how to love
a chance encounter forever
i know an idea
comprehended, a strike
of lightning, the
numbness that follows
i know the first person
hates poetry or vice versa
and
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Poverty Gap
Interesting: though I wish Canadian statistics were included in the article. If you want to look further, the OECD's website is here.
Of further interest is this article.
Of further interest is this article.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
lego lesson #7
this little brick laid foundation,
this little brick built a home.
this little brick's a two-car garage,
this little brick erected Rome.
and this little brick...
stopped the hole,
silencing their cries.
this little brick built a home.
this little brick's a two-car garage,
this little brick erected Rome.
and this little brick...
stopped the hole,
silencing their cries.
Filling Station Volunteers (Calgary)
Filling Station Magazine is a locally created, nationally-distributed literary and arts magazine. Filling Station has no specific mandate for content, but we like to bring cutting-edge, risk-taking, and breathtaking work to adventurous readers. We're looking to expand our horizons and invite new members of the community to join us in creating Filling Station.
Visual Editor
Filling Station is on the lookout for a new Visual Editor for 2009. The Visual Editor would be responsible for compiling a section including cutting-edge visual art and write ups about the same. We are especially interested in a candidate who is a member of the visual arts community, can write with confidence about visual art, and who is not afraid to approach artists about the magazine. Those interested in becoming Visual Editor for Filling Station would be invited to our annual AGM in early 2009, when members vote on new editorial candidates.
Audio Editor
With the right editor on board, a new Audio Section could be created to review CDs that are literary in nature (spoken word or poetry), that have band members with ties to the publishing lit community, or that are literary in some way (great lyrics?). We would be most interested in a candidate who is into or involved with both innovative literature and independent music. Those interested in becoming Audio Editor for Filling Station would be invited to our annual AGM in early 2009, when members vote on new editorial candidates.
The Poetry Collective and The Fiction Collective seek members
These are the collectives that read submitted material. Editors email or hand off the work, you are given time to read it on your own, then all members of the collective have a meeting in which they present work to one another that they feel is worthy of going in this cutting-edge magazine. If you a writer or an avid reader, we would be especially interested in hearing from you. Collective members do not need to be voted in.
Filling Station Meetings
Once every two months or so, there are also Filling Station meetings where all editors and collective members get together to receive new submissions, and go through books submitted for review (everyone is welcome to review books and keep the books they review). Even if you are not a collective member, you are welcome to come be part of Filling Station as a contributor to our non-fiction section which includes book reviews, live reviews, interviews, and articles.
Flywheel Reading Series
On the first Thursday of each month at Pages Books on Kensington, Filling Station hosts the Flywheel Reading Series at 7:00 p.m. Flywheel could use some helping hands to make it all come together and to spread the word. Flywheel members do not need to be voted in.
These are all unpaid, volunteer positions (as is every position at Filling Station).
If you are interested in joining, please contact Managing Editor Laurie Fuhr at meditor.fs@gmail.com
Please feel free to pass this email along to anyone who might be interested.
Visual Editor
Filling Station is on the lookout for a new Visual Editor for 2009. The Visual Editor would be responsible for compiling a section including cutting-edge visual art and write ups about the same. We are especially interested in a candidate who is a member of the visual arts community, can write with confidence about visual art, and who is not afraid to approach artists about the magazine. Those interested in becoming Visual Editor for Filling Station would be invited to our annual AGM in early 2009, when members vote on new editorial candidates.
Audio Editor
With the right editor on board, a new Audio Section could be created to review CDs that are literary in nature (spoken word or poetry), that have band members with ties to the publishing lit community, or that are literary in some way (great lyrics?). We would be most interested in a candidate who is into or involved with both innovative literature and independent music. Those interested in becoming Audio Editor for Filling Station would be invited to our annual AGM in early 2009, when members vote on new editorial candidates.
The Poetry Collective and The Fiction Collective seek members
These are the collectives that read submitted material. Editors email or hand off the work, you are given time to read it on your own, then all members of the collective have a meeting in which they present work to one another that they feel is worthy of going in this cutting-edge magazine. If you a writer or an avid reader, we would be especially interested in hearing from you. Collective members do not need to be voted in.
Filling Station Meetings
Once every two months or so, there are also Filling Station meetings where all editors and collective members get together to receive new submissions, and go through books submitted for review (everyone is welcome to review books and keep the books they review). Even if you are not a collective member, you are welcome to come be part of Filling Station as a contributor to our non-fiction section which includes book reviews, live reviews, interviews, and articles.
Flywheel Reading Series
On the first Thursday of each month at Pages Books on Kensington, Filling Station hosts the Flywheel Reading Series at 7:00 p.m. Flywheel could use some helping hands to make it all come together and to spread the word. Flywheel members do not need to be voted in.
These are all unpaid, volunteer positions (as is every position at Filling Station).
If you are interested in joining, please contact Managing Editor Laurie Fuhr at meditor.fs@gmail.com
Please feel free to pass this email along to anyone who might be interested.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Party of Canada
Party of Canada
Our mandate is to get elected
by selling you to you
so we can profit off you.
We are a democracy party:
we offer lower taxes to more people
and call that a tax savings.
We keep our promise to lower taxes
by renaming old taxes and applying
them to new things that are cheaper.
Bread is next. We know
Canadians appreciate our mandate
and support lower taxes.
Saturday, September 06, 2008
The Laurentian
Saw an ad posted by the Laurentian Bank on the metro yesterday. A welcoming ad, with a little red-haired girl in a green sweater embracing a little Asian girl. And that's why Quebec institutions don't understand why they're racist.
The Asian kids have been here as long as the Irish ones. Reverse the paradigm and show the non-white kid having agency in the image, for a change. Even if it means taking agency away from the white kid. criminy.
The Asian kids have been here as long as the Irish ones. Reverse the paradigm and show the non-white kid having agency in the image, for a change. Even if it means taking agency away from the white kid. criminy.
Monday, September 01, 2008
For Better or Worse?
Holy crap. It looks like Lynn Johnston has finished her strip. I grew up reading her books and the strip and, I gotta say, I have a tear in my eye right now while I think of it ending. She was my mom's favourite cartoonist and will always have my respect and admiration for the way she managed to drag the art form kicking and screaming into a new era of social life.
Vilified by readers for introducing the first gay character and harangued by Schultz for killing the family dog when it got too old to be believable, Johnston generally managed to do what so many of her peers fail utterly at - keeping it real. I've always seen her characters in my life and appreciated the wry wit she used to shake up the world around us with her craft.
Vilified by readers for introducing the first gay character and harangued by Schultz for killing the family dog when it got too old to be believable, Johnston generally managed to do what so many of her peers fail utterly at - keeping it real. I've always seen her characters in my life and appreciated the wry wit she used to shake up the world around us with her craft.
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