October 29th, 2006
a November to Remember
If you haven't had enough poetry to date, the
Raving
Poets are riding again, albeit in the cold.
As they say:
(EDMONTON) All star center-man, and 90-goal scorer,
poet extraordinaire, Jadon Rempel just signed
a five-week deal with the Raving Poets as interim
host while regular host Mike Gravel sits out his
suspension for a vicious hit from behind on poet
Phil Jagger, who was in a coma for two weeks.
Rempel, who played with Canada's Olympic team
in 2003, was a hold-out free agent until the Raving
Poets signed him Monday for an undisclosed amount
rumored to be close to three million dollars.
"I'm just glad to be back playing,"
Rempel said from his home in Miami, Florida. "Edmonton's
a great poetry town. I just thank God, and my
mom and dad, and the Raving Poets franchise for
the opportunity. And I want to let the Edmonton
fans know that I'll be giving one-hundred and
ten per cent out there. And if the Raving Poets
make it to the cup final, it will be a team effort-I
promise not to "Pronger," next season,
no matter what happens."
Raving Poets' General Manager, Randall Edwards
said Rempel was a great acquisition. "The
price was right and we think he'll fit into the
team chemistry." The regular host for the
Raving Poets, Michael Gravel is in care at the
Betty Ford Centre in Washington, D.C.
Five Wednesdays, One November
The Raving Poets..LIVE
Yianni's Taverna, Kazbar Lounge
10444 - 82 Ave., Edmonton, AB, Canada
This Wednesday, sign-up is @ 8 p.m.
October 24th, 2006
17 steps of becket
If you're a Beckett fan, or a Pinter fan, or
better yet, a Beckett AND Pinter fan, check out
this
ticket in London. Pinter is playing in Krapp's
Last Tape. Which is a great woolly chunk
of writing.
If you're not standing somewhere near Sloane Square,
you can try to dig up Atom
Egoyan's version of the play. Or just read
it, I guess.
But man, it would be a singular event. Something
to say for forty years. Or in six months, when
Pinter kicks. For us common folk, it beats most
other funeral conversation. Like the time my old
man understatedly mentioned, just once in 2001,
that he saw Anthony Quinn play
Zorba onstage. In New York.
Something like that. But more.
October 12th, 2006
730
Days Later
On a bitter autumn
morning, Tourette loaded the wide-eyed Mike Gravel
into The Pink Bitch and the two headed East on
the errant missile, a pair of screaming lumberjacks
with hands bit hard into the edge of a frozen
log split off some giant wooden cock pumped hard
by Herculean balls, blasting meathammer poetry
towards that blackened godless Mecca, The Big
Smoke. Tourette, destined to slapshot his own
words into the deep, empty lakes that ring the
City, rode the bitch hard and endless until sleep
and day overlapped in one slitbuzzing hynagogic
dance that could only end in failure, madness
or lidless-eyed death.
Two years ago, it started like that. And even
when it was done, he refused to let go of the
wheel, refused to believe it was done, that the
dream was dead, ground to red paste, that poetry
was finished, that writing was broke, that the
Bitch was rusting and flaking and he strapped
her doors shut and kept a hundred copies of the
Word in the trunk with two shovels, a barren cashbox,
his emergency bottle of rum and the scar on his
fingers where the knife hit bone. Obstinate bone,
buried deep in the hood of his parka, encasing
that glistening skull and two eyes, ceaseless
humming, carved from tar and the sheen of pavement,
ever aiming left in the darkness, just the side
of the oncoming lights, faithful that somewhere
past the whitewalls of rain and highbeams lies
the white dotted line again, leading on. Somewhere.
October 11th, 2006
The
De Niro Game
NEW
DELHI (AP) - An enraged bull ran amok through
the New Delhi city centre, two markets, a movie
theatre, a Sikh temple and the YWCA during a seven-hour
rampage, evading attempts to capture it and lightly
wounding six people, media reports said.
from
CBC
And the funnest part is: cows in India are sacred!
So you can't shoot the holy bastards!
In related raging bull news, Corey Hamilton has
a new
blog.
October 4th, 2006
Effervescent
Maisonneuves
For those who subscribe to Maisonneuve and found
their way here after doing some Googling, welcome
to the show. Or what's left of it.
But What Happened Last Month? By God, Find Out
Here!
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October 2006