Last week commenter Kim Bosch laughed about the fact that I literally buried a lie when I was eight years old, which reminded me of other lies I buried that year. Eight, apparently, was the Year of Burying Incriminating Evidence. I puzzled over this while reminiscing. What deep psychological forces were at work that would [...]
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John A Last night GC and I found ourselves at the Umi Cafe for a book launch and poetry reading. The author of the book, Akili Castlin, was not there, because he’s in Pelican Bay State Prison in California. He’s 37 years old. He’s been incarcerated since he was 23. He’s been in solitary [...] J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye, and Dr. Howard Zinn, activist and author of The People’s History of the U.S., both just died. I know they were old (91 and 87 respectively) and they led full lives, and they had to go sometime, but…I feel sad. Remember when you were eight years old and looking up words like “fart” in the dictionary? (We all did that, right? It wasn’t just me?) Well, a school district in southern California has banned the Merriam-Webster dictionary from classrooms because of its sexually graphic nature. The offending term that triggered the ban was oral sex (defined [...] I attended Constable Eric Czapnik’s funeral procession today. I didn’t know exactly what to expect, since I’d never witnessed a cop’s funeral procession before. But it was a pretty impressive sight, and a remarkable display of solidarity. Lately I haven’t known what to think of cops anymore. I’ve met some who don’t deserve my respect, and [...] When my son was about six or seven years old, he was seized with a sudden urge to see a dead body. “I want to see a dead body,” he informed me solemnly. “Why?” “I don’t know.” “How about a picture of a dead body?” “No,” he said. “A real one.” I wavered and procrastinated. Sometimes he had these sudden [...] January: My blog was resurrected after a near death experience with an ill-fated WordPress upgrade. I got approached by a stranger and asked if I was Duncan’s owner. I wrote three real letters, with paper and ink and stamps and everything. I sold a piece of art to a mysterious dark-haired stranger. Everybody at work [...] The Conservatives are trying to take the war on drug users to another level with Bill C-15, which proposes mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses. This Bill, if passed into law, will strip judges of their discretion in sentencing Canadians convicted of drug offenses. Rather than being allowed to take all factors into consideration before making [...] I read with interest yesterday that in the interests of holding our tax increase to 3.9%, the City of Ottawa is considering getting rid of Crime Prevention Ottawa. I’ve attended a couple of community meetings organized by Crime Prevention Ottawa, and frankly I wasn’t all that impressed. I’m in favour of crime prevention, but CPO’s approach to [...] It was a busy, busy weekend, including a brief trip to Montreal, the TimeRaisers event on Saturday night, and the Vintage Clothing Sale on Sunday, with knitting, novel-writing, novel-reading and breakfast eating crammed into random little pockets of time. TimeRaiser was even better this year than last, because they simplified and streamlined the whole thing. It’s [...] |
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