Poet Sam Cheuk's Misadventures in Literary Toronto

Jun 20, 2006 15:25

One time I walked into Abelard books on College St and found pluginthejebus in the back corner, weeping into an open copy of A.E. Houseman's own verse. "So...young..." he snuffled. Then hurled it across the room, hitting the shopkeeper in the head. "Too young!" he shouted, "Why did he have to be taken from us so young?" Another used book store he could never ( Read more... )

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fountaingirl June 20 2006, 20:59:43 UTC
What was with him and Atwood? This is not the first Plug-messing-with-Atwood story I have heard. It's more like the third. WTF?

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piratehead June 20 2006, 22:51:02 UTC
Well, the way he told it, she boiled his bunny.

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mehinda June 20 2006, 23:09:30 UTC
Yeah, but come on, he did kinda have that coming.

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piratehead June 20 2006, 23:38:47 UTC
Yeah, but I'm not sure she had to do it in front of him while he hung upside down in a bondage harness.

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awkward cataptromancer June 20 2006, 21:16:44 UTC
I've got no context for this so I don't know. Did something happen to your friend?

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Re: awkward piratehead June 20 2006, 22:26:11 UTC
We think so. We're not sure. It might all be some megalomaniacal hoax he came up with before he had to flee the country.

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rfmcdpei June 21 2006, 13:01:36 UTC
That's, well. Well.

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