Obasan – Joy Kogawa

Just about finished this one….and I’m pretty glad to be done, frankly.  The writing isn’t bad, the story isn’t awful but I’m finding it hard to keep my concentration while reading.  Here’s the premise:  narrator Naomi, small girl, caught up in the middle of the rounding up of the Japanese Canadians during World War II.  [...]

Self-Publishing is the Elephant in the Room

So I’m thinking of self-publishing a small, very tiny, chapbook.  Since I work in a print company I’m thinking it only makes sense.  I’m not sure who I’ll give (not sell) this wee book to besides family and my friend B.  I spent 2 hours last night getting it together.  I think I’ll get my resident [...]

Mingus Tourette

Without his presense, it would seem that all of hell would disappear. – C. no.X

Goodbye Ol’ Mingy Boy

I was thinking the other day that I hadn’t seen Mingus around lately and I thought he might have got a little unwise with his giant hunting knife and was hiding out under a rock somewhere eating pork and beans on toast and letting his hair get long.  Picture mutton-chops and a faux-hawk.  I was guessing [...]

Oh, Canada.

Going into this weekend for the 2008 Olympics, Canada was exactly zero.  No medals, nothing.  The swimmers were making themselves proud with their own personal bests, Canadian records, blah, blah.  I’m sorry, but you are at the Olympics!  What does all that matter?
Here’s my conundrum:  do we invest a whackadoo of money into the atheletes [...]

#566

You can only watch so much Olympics.