Lake Catchacoma
By the end of the summer in southern Ontario, there's enough daytime temperature variation that you'll get a misty condensation above the water in the
Archive for the Pure Water Category
Bob Lake
Who is Bob? Remember the crazy killer named Bob on Twin Peaks? Maybe the lake was named after him. Or maybe it was named for someone even more i
If Reading is Consumption, then Writing is Excretion
E-ink is a lie. It tries to persuade us that writing is black. While I don't doubt that some of it is black, the very best writing appears in brow
Ireland Park & Toronto Railway Lands
Opened on June 21, 2007, Ireland Park is a small memorial to the 38,000 Irish refugees who fled the potato famine of 1847 and were received in Toronto
The Cloud Economy: Computing as a Social Justice Issue
"a writer who doesn't want her work to be read by everyone doesn't deserve to be read by anyone" While the question of cloud computing – is it a
Kirk Newman’s Community and the Importance of Context
On Bloor St. E. in Toronto, you'll find a large bronze sculpture of 21 life size figures titled "Community" by Kirk Newman and commissioned by Manulif
Photos from Toronto Pride Parade 2010
Here are 300 images from yesterday's 30th annual Toronto Pride Parade which wraps up Pride Week, a nice change from the G20 circus that rolled into to
Black Bloc McProtest
On Friday June 25, 2010, the day before the G20 Summit, I accompanied my wife to her place of work on the northern limit of the secured zone in Downto
Eternal Flame of Hope extinguished for Toronto G20
Since my post on Monday, the mood in downtown Toronto has changed. For one thing, it's empty. The people there are either police officers and secu
Graffiti in Toronto
Culture is not an industry. It is not a sector of the economy. Culture is a condition. It is the social trailings of my solitary consciousness.Â
Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke
In yesterday's post on Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, I asked a question which I never answered:Â "And can we make anything more of it [the Tropic
Reading Tropic of Cancer for the first time
Why has it taken me so long to read Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer? And now that I've read it, what am I to make of it? The expat Yank living in
