The man I spent the night in bed beside is a teacher. We were in a hotel in a town a few hours from home, and it’s not like anyone would talk even if they knew. There was a tournament … Continue reading →
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centre of the universe: Naughty
His Nibs and I went to a Store yesterday for the purpose of purchasing a Bed. “Dear God, cenobyte,” you are thinking, “have you no BED!? How can you *live* like that?” Rest assured, gentle reader, I have a bed. … Continue …
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Happy Birthday
Today is your sixty-fifth birthday. Time for the government to start paying you back, ha-ha. I would have brought you a cake in the shape of enormous breasts, and joked that if you held it down around your waist you’d … Continue reading …
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Dark Sky
Last night the sky was swollen with burgeoning tornadoes at our lakefront cottage on a hill the front room was full of dust-covered videos and you weren’t there at all. The storms never came but the sky stayed brown and … Continue reading &…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Aw, shit.
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” A letter to Canadians, from Jack Layton
Continue readingcentre of the universe: It’s Been 21 Years, One Month, Three Weeks, and One Day
Roughly, or thereabouts, I figure, since I last saw you. Of course, I am forgetting the time I saw you in passing at the top of the escalators in Place Riel when you told me you were studying education and … Continue reading →
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Angles and Corners
These boys are all skinny legs and large, awkward feet. You see the way they stand and listen to their coaches, and you see glimpses of the men they will become – in the angle of a hip; in the … Continue reading →
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Summer Lies
Do you remember sitting on the couch in the house off Broadway the summer that everything seemed so unreal, the day you told me you were falling in love with me? It was stiflingly hot; the air did not move … Continue reading →
Continue readingcentre of the universe: This Thing Can’t Go On
My friend PoMoAnachro is doing this Steampunk LARP. Costumes are an awful lot of fun, and if you can get enough people serious about costuming, the venue isn’t necessarily as important because the players themselves become part of the setting. &#…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: I had a Very Witty Title and Forboutagot it
For a while this morning, everything was normal. The sandy-haired gentleman sat at his kitchen table with a coffee and a bagel and seven or eight daily newspapers from all over the world. His house was silent; not even the … Continue reading →
Continue readingcentre of the universe: 10th August fast approaches
Yours Truly has been invited to be one of the “Writers Reading” in Victoria Partk at Noon, I think, on Wednesday, 10th August. Which reminds me, I have to get a bio in to the folks what promote it. Hrm. … Continue reading →
Continue readingcentre of the universe: What are you working on?
I’m trying to invent a LARP system.
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’…
I don’t talk much about my work here. Most of that is by design; it’s a kind of ‘keep work separate from something’ thing. But it’s also because people who blog about their work, for the most part, bitch. And that’s …
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Signals
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about signals. About how signals are more often than not ambiguous and/or prone to interpretation. Signals are everywhere; everything that commutes meaning or conveys messages is a signal, whether or not that signa…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: The Truth of the matter
The real reason books are dangerous is because people care so much about them.
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Crowns and Kings
We have a cat. I have had cats since I was wee – my grandmother left food out for the neighbourhood cats because they kept the mice and snakes away from her house. Once, she booted a cat in the head when it scratched me. That cat was much nicer a…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: The thing about ouroboros
We left town for Canada Day. Initially I was going to go Away for a LARP vacation, but then after a chat with my Da it became apparent that it’d be nice to try to do something for my Grandmother’s birthday (she is the same age as Canada bec…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Patriotic
The word ‘patriotism’ comes from the Latin ‘pater’, which means “father”, through the Greek ‘patris’ (fatherland) -> ‘patrios’ (of one’s fathers) -> ‘patriotes’ (fell…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Vilify Me
Eventually the only source of humour that will be socially and politically correct will be bodily functions, spoonerisms and puns, and the sort of humour where people inadvertently slip on banana peels. And then the Cruelty to Foods that Used to be A…
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Why now
Why now? Why like this? You’ve had ample opportunity, and you’ve taken none of it. So you hid for a while behind the pseudonym, knowing only I would know who you were. Now you’re not hiding, and I wonder what’s changed with that…
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