Just a quick update - today I had a second interview with Rogers Video store, a nationwide chain of anti-Blockbusters. Yeah, its min. wage and I have to wear a dorky shirt, plus I'd have to work the hellborn cash register (which I realize I have a deep abnormal phobia about). On the plus side, free rentals of games and movies, discounts on cell ( Read more... )

A lot of people I know want to escape. I read about one friend wanting to escape to the green fields of England (and the American South as well, eh Ian?) and I hear another friend pine over Cuba. My sister is planning a trip to Italy, to the Vatican, Rome, though for touristic reasons rather than Catholic, and even my mother will be going to ( Read more... )

Donald O’Donald moped through the house
saddened from the cobwebs that hung in the corners
shared his own great empty
with the emptiness of his home
a little boy lost in the gloom

Then faint through the cracks came a soft voice a calling
and Donald strained to hear

But I’m not dead, it said, and the boy was pleased again
I’m not dead, it ( Read more... )

Just came home from a poetry reading at Phog, the damn coolest bar in Windsor, Ontario Canada, Earth, Milky Way. I read three of my pieces to gentle kind applause, but it was a forced kind of attention due to the lack of audience. The poetry readings, called 'Angels and Devils' (a name I adore) is split into three portions - an open mic, a featured ( Read more... )

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Carnivale is in trouble. Guess this means we need to start writing letters. Crap.

Tonight I headed to my lil watering hole (and not on a poetry night, either, for shame on me) and as luck would have it, the poor gal who starred in my last post was indeed present. The good news is things are perfectly clear that there's nothing between us. I'm not one of the more frequent visitors there, so every visit is basically a 'oh yeah, I ( Read more... )

I have come to the realization that I have a servant fetish. You know how in old 80's sitcoms people would joke how sexy it would be if their partners dressed up in chambermaid outfits? No? Me neither, forget I asked, but for me I do believe that within me exists a deep attraction to waitresses and female bartenders. I can only guess at the ( Read more... )

Happy St. Patrick's Day!


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Today at the mall I was encouraged to try out a modeling contest. Of course, I was encouraged by the people who were running it, so it was mostly likely a sham compliment. I'm an easy sell, and immediately warmed up to this person and believed her lies. But as I walked away I knew I had been played, so this pic is in honour of the good folks at ( Read more... )

I was thinking of things to write about on here tonight, and decided not to update with a story of my characteristic 'change of mind' regarding getting a job in Japan. I was going to write this whole clever thing about me dropping the 'corporate ideal' and becoming a bohemian parasite, a gonzo '2-yr diploma' journalist, a penniless artist. ( Read more... )