The Great News Break of 2011

 Caretakery
Nov 222011
 

So sometime around the start of fall, I switched from MTS to Shaw. Saved a lot of money. Lost a lot of channels. Among them: CNN and almost anything associated with educational content. Besides, I’ve been distracted. And my distractions have taken me on a looping course away from the news cycle of the moment. On Twitter, I won a subscription to The New Yorker, the apple of my reading eye. I don’t think I’ve yet read a single issue straight through. I used to hit up U.S. political blogs several times a day. Now I haven’t seen the front [...click for more...]

Share

A Short Ode to Winnipeg Winter

 Musings, Odes to Winnipeg
Nov 142011
 

And just like that, the world dies. Ashes of a burned-out summer dance outside the window. A funeral shroud over foreign grasses that clung, ’til now, to green. And by February, we’ll say: “was it all a dream? So it was all just a dream.” We trade in Technicolour summers for rabbit-ear winters. White and black and grainy film, time elapsed in fits and jerks. Wake up, bundle up, hot shower, go to work. So goes the dirge of all northern cities. Press pause. Hit play. Stay inside. Shiver the day away. It’s hard to imagine living in a place [...click for more...]

Share