Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Belle Gardner's library (dead people's books)

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through Lauren Elkin's blog about life in Paris, i discovered a marvellous virtual bookshelf: the "I see dead people's books...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Stampede: horses & tipis

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i finally have time to put up some photos from this year's Calgary Stampede. it was cool but beautiful on the afternoon of this tipi-rai...
Friday, July 11, 2008

dinner at Frontenac House

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sometimes i think my amazing publishers, Rose & David Scollard of Frontenac House, run a writers' bed & breakfast alongside thei...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008

yee-haw...

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just got to Calgary for the Stampede...and discovered that the Banff Centre for the Arts is celebrating its 75th anniversary. i have great m...

love for sale

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a sidewalk artist at a recent Toronto street fair: and true to their practical Big Smoke roots, Toronto residents were chucking most of thei...
Thursday, July 03, 2008

Betancourt free

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a bit of good news for a change...six and a half years after being taken hostage by Farc rebels, French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancou...
Saturday, June 21, 2008

BIG and the underpass

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just home from BIG, the Bloor Improvement Group's new street festival. i thought the name might be a titch overambitious, but in fact no...
Friday, June 20, 2008

reading at Art Bar

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the Art Bar series is the longest-continually-running poetry series in Toronto, and this week i was thrilled to read there alongside James D...