(i’ve been kind of all over the place for the past couple of months, and while i entertained notions of keeping abreast of posting on the road as events/experiences warranted, it really wasn’t practical. as a result, expect over the next month or so to be treated to fits and starts of travel reportage, according [...]
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London, Giddy, Bitter London.
May 7, 2012
Osloooooooooo
April 22, 2012
the other night at a metal bar in Oslo, a 6’9 Norwegian guy in a matching Green Bay Packers hat, jacket, and jersey bought me a pint of beer and a shot of fernet. he spoke english with a South Carolinan twang that he learned on an army base in Germany (as close, apparently, as [...]
Still Waiting for my Comeuppance…
April 20, 2012
apparently Food and Trembling has been nominated for a Taste Canada “Culinary Narrative” award. so…..go tell them how awesome i am, somehow, maybe?
Make A Scene In My Stead.
April 2, 2012
i have just been informed that Food & Trembling is up for some manner of Expozine Award this year. the winners will be announced at their Gala Event to be held next week at Divan Orange. shame i can’t be there. if anyone could show up and start flipping tables and crying foul if/when [...]
Zuma’s Revenge, or, Triumph of the Euphemism (Failure of the Analogy?).
March 30, 2012
~ i have said before, perhaps too often and too glibly, that i live my life in avoidance of the stomach ache (however little i modify my behaviour to the achievement of this end, aside from excluding from my diet expired meat and psychedelic mushrooms). it is too fearsome, it suffuses and poisons the being, wrenches [...]
Don’t Be Fooled.
March 28, 2012
look for me last week in the Spring issue of the Montreal Review of Books! i have been flattered with the comment that i come across as much more ‘punk’ than in the Chronicle Herald interview, but i assure you it was unintentional. note: there’s some sort of weird nonsense with the mRb website [...]
Also Pink Gin, But Who Needs A Recipe For That?
March 20, 2012
~ the late winter/early spring issue of space|time is out, which features a revisiting of my gin-bathed cucumber sandwiches venture, along with some obnoxious griping about spring, which i must admit now appears to be in full swing, if not bloom (blue skies, grey branches). the issue also contains an interesting-looking recipe for jerk cornish [...]
Woo.
March 12, 2012
not that much of my signature wit or total indifference to the interests of the readership shine through, but here’s an excerpt of an interview i did this winter with chef Aaron Woo, for Wilder Quarterly. http://www.foodrepublic.com/2012/02/09/behold-portlands-natural-selection
“Swoops – Veers – Undisciplined and Occasionally Out of Control”
March 6, 2012
~ in other news, this also happened while i was in Mexico: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/three-new-books-worth-a-look/article2349053/ “undisciplined,” certainly, but what of my arabesque* grammaticality? don’t worry guys, i’ve been reading a lot of Maugham and GK Chesterton (whom everyone seems to agree is, as a theologian and essayist, a paragon of tight, rich, yet lucid, prose. although his [...]
