Names of things get away on me when there is too much on my plate. I can’t remember films I’ve seen, books I’ve read, cds I’ve listened too. Sometimes I can’t even remember the names of friends and family. The hard drive is overloaded. I need a reboot.Saw Atom Egoyan’s new film Where the Truth…

rock geekdom is a serious affliction 

Nozomi thinks blogging is geekysexy.  

Sandy to Travis: “Your neck wouldn’t be cold if you had a beard scarf. And because I am your friend, I will draw you one.”  

Nalo Hopkinson Sandy Lam Frances Kruk Ryan Fitzpatrick Thanks Nalo, for instructions on how to do this!

When I wanted to be a video artist, I would go to film festivals in bigger cities and watch four or sometimes even five films a day. I love that moment before the film starts, when you’re still feeling triumphant about having gotten in (if you did), and everyone is negotiating drinks and snacks and…

me and the lovely Sandy Lam 

We just got notification from the Canada Council today. So Roy Miki, Fred Wah, Marilyn Dumont, Wayde Compton, Hiromi Goto, Ashok Mathur, Glen Lowry and yours truly are on our way to a big CanLit blowout in Taiwan. A few of us will go on to Japan afterwards. Going to Asia feels like going to…