Posted by: parrishka on: July 31, 2006
well, if you can all bear with me for one last time, I’m moving digital house again. And I do promise it will be the last time in a long while. It’s my very own site and my very own domain, back up and running for the first time in over two years, and it’s [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: July 27, 2006
more finds from the digital frontier: the latest edition of firefox has a bunch of new toys called extension (about 1800 of them, in fact) that you can add on at will. Some are more fun than useful, like my Homestar Runner toolbar, thank you very much.
some still need tweaking, like performancing, [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: July 25, 2006
Every time we talk about how splintered the various poetry communities are in toronto, i bring myself to the conclusion that this is a condition of size. if there were only 20 people in the city interested in going to poetry readings, we’d all end up at the same place. if there was only one [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: July 24, 2006
I’m in the process of getting my website back online, so I figured while I was at it, I’d see what was out there in the way of blog tools these days. MoveableType lost me when they went all corporate. Not that they shouldn’t have done that- more power to ‘em. It’s just that I’m [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: July 23, 2006
I’m having one of those convergence moments- you know, when everything you read, see, talk about, dream connects in some serendipitous way? what’s truly exciting about this is that it means that my brain has been freed up to play a bit. it was rusty at first, but i’m warming up, baby! and god, it [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: July 23, 2006
what i’m up to these days
the flaming shitbag icon:
Posted by: parrishka on: July 21, 2006
I didn’t go home from This Ain’t The Rosedale Library empty handed. I picked up The Language of Inquiry, a collection of meditations by Lyn Hejinian on potery and poetics, mostly previously published pieces. A LOT to digest here. A lot on and about and around and beside stein. And a lot of helpful stuff [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: July 21, 2006
fabulous chat with a.raw yesterday about podcast possibilities, made even more fabulous by sitting at Kalendar, lazily sipping a concoction dreamt up by one of their bartenders called, “the Jag.” The main ingredients were chartreuse and a mysterious entity known as “lemon myrtle,” which the interner tells me is a herb indigenous to australia, and [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: July 20, 2006
one of the highlights of skooled for me was rock school, where i got to strap on a bass for the first time and kick it old school. (best compliment ever: one of the crew said there were shades of iggy pop in my performance.) part of our transformation from teachers into rockers was accomplished [...]
Posted by: parrishka on: July 15, 2006
I adore Eileen Myles. I suspect that most people who hear her for the first time are likewise smitten. She read from a long prose work, not yet published, anecdotal musings about a life of poetry, and the opening chapter told of her hard crush on an English professor in college, one of those profs [...]
