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I'm not invincible, but I would take a bullet for you
In my dream, I am walking through my parents' backyard. It's fall, and I see my father by the back fence raking the leaves. It's a dusky, sombre kind of day, and everything, including my father, seems slowed down almost to stillness. Some things are always the same I think -- my father with his rake in my childhood backyard. But almost in the same ( Read more... ) -
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He's not invincible, but he could take a bullet. I'm not invincible, but I would take a bullet for you.
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Animals
One time when I was a kid I had a discussion with my sister about whether human beings were in any way fundamentally different from other animals. I turned to my older brother to find out what he thought. "Are people animals?" I asked him. He thought about it for a minute. "You mean aesthetically?" I was just a kid and didn't know what ( Read more... ) -
Blonde and blond
Isn't it interesting that the word "blond" and "blonde" has separate masculine and feminine grammatical genders? I was blond when I was a kid, but you -- you are probably blonde, since I think most of my friends on here are female. -
Little blonde girl
Lately I have been walking past the house of the little blonde girl quite a lot. It's a white clapboard house on the corner of a busy street across from a church. When I was a kid, I always thought of it as a special place because it had stone pillars on each side of its driveway, and all around the rest of the expansive yard was a high, dense ( Read more... ) -
God is androgenous
Christians consider God to be a male, refering to the supreme being as "He". Feminist critics of christian beliefs will point to this as a historical example of sexism. After all, why couldn't God be a she ( Read more... ) -
Where are those good old family values, on which we used to rely?
So goes the song on the Family Guy. It's a satirical lament for an age when TV and film were tamer. People today snicker at how polyanish some of those old shows were, and they point to today's more liberal-minded television and movie content to demonstrate how much more progressive and modern society is today than in those silly old days. I mean, ( Read more... ) -
Seven curators cut at the National Gallery of Canada...
This is just the beginning of the routing of arts and culture in Canada. We have a prime minister who is a machine -- he is unable to appreciate certain things, and even more importantly, is unable to have any kind of insight into why other people appreciate the things he cannot understand. He is an enemy of things he does not understand, and he is ( Read more... ) -
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Over-consumption, Fournier. Drinking and eating then drinking and eating then drinking and eating, then off we go to buy stuff we don't need. Our bathrooms are the size of studio apartments and our closets aren't big enough anymore unless you can walk into them -- because we have enough clothes for ten people. We are addicted to over-consumption. ( Read more... ) -
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The Ubiquity Of The Need For Love
Ronald Koertge
I leave the number and a short
message on every green Volvo
in town
Is anything wrong?
I miss you.
574-7423
The phone rings constantly.
One says, Are you bald?
Another, How tall are you in
your stocking feet?
Most just reply, Nothing's wrong.
I miss you, too.
Come quick.