imperfect offering

doing a bit of last minute poking around the www for what I might be able to gather as supplementary texts/references for our study of the matrix. looking for something short and sweet by someone smarter than me on avital ronell’s the telephone book, cause i’ve always thought that the use of the telephone in [...]

on Benjamin Walker’s Theory of Everything podcast this week, I learned about the work of joe david, artist in residence at MIT, and an art project he did in the late 80s:
Davis led a quasi-covert operation that recorded the vaginal contractions of ballerinas with the Boston Ballet and other women, then translated this impetus of [...]

i love radio. many of my childhood memories have a cbc soundtrack: joe coté and the metro morning theme song urging me, along with my worried mother, to end my stand-off with a boiled egg before I trudged around the corner to school; the tinny tiny sound of the opening march from the max [...]

Free Space Comix: the blog � Play On Words: A Poets Theater Festival

it finally arrived!!!
my new rating statement from the union.
after having reviewed my various academic and pedagogic accomplishments, i have achieved a group 4 rating, the highest professional rating possible!
what merited this noble leap? ( I went from group 1 to 4 in a single bound)
1. a correction in paperwork- the union didn’t know thaat i [...]

**part of my correspondance with Jay Millar this week**
dear jay,
Thank you so much for the statement you made. I really appreciate how you have listened to what I can only imagine is an earful of reactions to these incidents.
I am particularly relieved that you made such a clear statement about Book Thug’s position and [...]

just as I had come through the other side of this wave of conflict at work- humbled, I hope wiser, relationships with many people made stronger by the work we’d poured into them- a fresh outburst of bile erupted amongst the poets I hang out with.
the public documentation of the dust-up has since been removed [...]