According to metafilter posters, Obama's office sent out the text message announcing Biden as his pick at 3 a.m. Cheeky.

I've been reading up. Here's some of the stuff I've run across that I found interesting:

• A 2001 New Republic profile. Biden's admirers spin his undisciplined chatter as a kind of John McCain-esque straight talk. Their shining ( Read more... )

Ways in which I have not assimilated:

• The way I say "about" and "process" still makes Americans laugh.
• "Check" still looks wrong to me. There's a q in there.
• I still use expressions which baffle Americans (I had to explain"can't be arsed" to Shay this week).
• I still make jokes based on Canadian Heritage Moments ("oh, doctor, I smell burnt toast!") ( Read more... )

I've started a new photo project on my website, Look Away. Basically I did searches on the Creative Commons-available photos on flickr using words and phrases from my poems, and then created mosaics using the resulting pictures I liked that went together. E.g.:


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Kate Beaton has a wonderful post about political cartoons from the 19th century.

Alba has published my short poem, "Larix laricina Anaphora."

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What with being unemployed and struggling with the novel and all, I've been trying to avoid getting sucked into the internet too much instead of working on (a) getting a job or (b) the novel. Then there was blogsphere DRAMARAMA* and I. can't. stop. reading. Dingle dang ( Read more... )

The Colbert "Make McCain Exciting" Green Screen Challenge is producing some hilarious videos (and also some pretty lame ones). Here are some of my favourites: Blue Suede Shoes; Gray Ambition; He Was There.

( You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth. )

Movie trailer mash-ups and remixes (via Mefi and youtube's sidebar links): Shining, Requiem for a Day Off, The Fugitive's Day Off, Must Love Jaws, Brokeback to the Future, Star Woz.