I'm pulling up stakes and moving over to Dreampepper. Let me know if you're still here, I'll put you on my RSS feed, and feel free to try to talk me into following the crowd to somewhere like Dreamwidth or Ello, because I still believe blogging brings us closer together than short form walled-garden posting every will.
Last week I took part in casual posse developed around the Solstice Lantern Festival held at the Roundhouse Community Center in Vancouver. I arrived after dinner, the small shows already started, and entered a hallway full of people, crowns of leaves and branches scattered through a crowd full of familiar faces. It's a small city, so we who
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The annual viewing of RARE EXPORTS, INC and RARE EXPORTS: THE SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS.
For bonus points, I hosted a massive orphan's christmas dinner on the 25th and subjected an entire room of fresh eyes to these and the full length feature of the same name.
A memory. A holiday dinner. A Jewish thing on the edge of the country with a family I can't seem to like. I am here with the eldest son, my employer, a shallow, suburban creature who, when he speaks in glowing colours about his ex-girlfriend, repeats how she stayed a size zero, because she knew he likes girls small. He is certain that everyone
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The Life of Death from Marsha Onderstijn. More travel approaches. Nevada. California. Festivals of thought and music. The desert. The rich. The coast. More of the rich, though a slightly different kind. Lights. Action. Arduino. An experience in a large dark room underground, the entry the same as the cost of a plane ticket
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Hominid is an animated teaser based on the Hominid series of photo composites by Brian Andrews, described as "photo composites made from human and veterinary images".
-::- A weekly movie night has sprung up in the homeless-yet-have-a-place dichotomy I've been inhabiting. Challenging films, insistent and smart, things
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