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A cracked and faded artifact a few years old, tired orange paint thinned to bare wooden bone. Marrow dark and brittle once made from (brain-numbing) poison protrudes bluntly from the tip of the wood-bone sheath. The other end is capped, constrained by a malleable metal alloy chewed down by repetitive cerebral strain. A cotton-candy colour ( Read more... )

I'm going treeplanting this summer. Looking for subletters. Anyone want to live in Ottawa for the summer ( Read more... )

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Root Canals: 2
Homes: 4
Flights: 8
Folk festivals: 3
76 hour bus rides: 1
Rides from dirty old men: at least 6
Church of the Nazarene followers trying to convert me: 2
Haggis tasting: 1
Visits to Montreal: 5
University classes completed: 10
Months being single: 6
New violin students: 3
Weeks on the road: 3
Decisions to drop out of school: 234'651'

One day it'll all be right. Every day is alright. I hit a car. I didn't even blink. One more rat mashing through these soggy ideas, trying to distinguish a taste. I jumped into a new perspective. I care less and less about rationality. I'm in love with love. I didn't even realise what had happened until I tried to explain it to someone.. ( Read more... )

First off, there was a surprisingly passionless crowd of about 5000 people. I went because I oppose the American Missile Defence System and Canada's entry into the program. There are many reasons for that, which I don't feel like getting into at the moment. Other people were protesting things such as the liberation of Palestine, capitalism, ( Read more... )

Choose a band/or artist and answer only in song TITLES by that band: Gillian Welch ( Read more... )

There is a email campaign at http://www.ceasefire.ca to demonstrate opposition to Canada's entry to the US missile defence program. If you are opposed to a dangerously flawed system that undermines the safety of the world and changes Canada's role in the world from peacemaker to aggressor, it ( Read more... )

I thought I'd share it with the rest of you.

If you are sad and wish to stop being sad, all you have to do is listen to Michael Franti & Spearhead. Amazing. Pure uncontrollable stupidly-grinning happiness, no alcohol needed. It helps if you're out in the (almost) woods on an unusually warm day as well.

This kind of happiness has no place on