I know New Years is just another day. But somehow I feel really glad this year that there's a marker stuck in the snow saying yeah, we did it again. I celebrated last night with homemade beer and baker street fireworks. laughing at stupid drunk girls downtown and curling up on Amber's couch. Pulling happiness out of little orange shadows and quiet ( Read more... )

Jester's selling his beer, 2L for $5. It's pretty damn good beer too, I got to be the unofficial tester a couple weeks back when me and Jester sat on the couch sampling his beer and wine and throwing balls for Destructo. Two bottles of beer and it got dark quick. It took me four and a half rides across the lake on the ferry before I got picked up ( Read more... )

So, Christmas happened while I choked back advils and watched the rain. Christmas came with carols and cookies and left in smoke with the burning bucket of tissue and wrapping paper. We got enough video's this year to keep us warm on the couch for a few days, and enough chocolate to make us think we should get out ( Read more... )

The complete story is below. It's all done now. Hope this works for your zine Jess. And Olivia, I hope it's a happy ending for you.

In the valley where I grew up they say we don’t know wind. We had nice summer breezes that got crisp in the fall and sometimes in the springtime the rain would come down slantways and we would sit indoors with our tea and watch the trees dance saying, “Shit, check out that wind.” or “That’s some wind out there.” But I had no idea of the ripping, ( Read more... )

I wrote this story in the car on the way to Kelowna. It's the first time in a very long time that I have written a complete story that has you know, a beginning, middle, and end. characters and development. Plot and such things. So of course I won't write it all here in one installment. What good is a story if I tell you the ending? I mean... I ( Read more... )

(I read a peice much like this in a zine today and I thought it was a really cute way of saying the things you've always thought but couldn't neccessarily say to a person, and saying them loud... and yet secret at the same time. so here are some of mine ( Read more... )

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I had a dream and I saw Travis, I ran to him ( Read more... )

I should be writing, I want to be, it's all whirling through my head, but I heard a great song on the radio by this group from Montreal and I had to come on the internet to find out who they were. No luck. do any of you know a quirky francophone band with sweet girl vocals and interesting noises and lyrics about running away? I tried to remember ( Read more... )