…DURING A SNOWSTORM PONDERING THE EXISTENCE OF GOD Okay, maybe you’re not pondering the existence of God. Maybe you’re certain that there is no God. Or maybe you’re certain that there is. Maybe, you’re sitting with two friends who have both been scorned by women and they are trying their hardest not to get tears … Continue Reading
Culture, Essays, Music
…and sunglasses on while smoking a cigarette on a sunny summer day. I don’t condone smoking, it is bad for you. I also don’t recommend driving too fast. I’ve gotten pulled over by the police several times and while they are usually very nice it doesn’t change the fact that you “done broke the law, … Continue Reading
Culture, Essays, Music
Today marks one year since Gabrielle’s death. It’s still hard for me to grasp that she’s gone. We danced together in Grades 11 and 12 back home in Richmond, BC and would bump into each other at various events around the community, but she was never a close friend. Still, we always hugged when we … Continue Reading
Essays, Literature, Memoir
…With the lights off after a long bike ride after breaking up with your girlfriend of two(ish) years Everyone has felt a little sorry for themselves at one time or another. We’re all human; we know what it’s like to have to work with these goddamn brains sometimes. I’ve experienced a lot of what psych … Continue Reading
Culture, Essays, Music
In 1967, at the age of eighteen, I left my Yorkshire, working class, grammar school roots, to become an art student; moving about as far south as you could get without actually drowning. But I did nearly drown; in the supra tectonic backwash of a social revolution.
Essays, Literature
by Dara Lurie One image, simple and clean; a solitary figure on a country road, retreating from view. Air hums, light shimmers, figure diminishes. It’s the dream, John Gardner says, the rich and vivid play of the mind. Words, language capture and contain the dream. You drink it in, are immersed, swimming in the rhythms … Continue Reading
Essays, Literature
Nights are reserved for intimate moments with my sketchbook and my volatile creative conscious. A seduction between a warm blooded woman and her inanimate lover.
Art, Commentary, Essays, Memoir
a Satire on the Current U.S. Economic and Political Debate I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” by the pool this summer, seeking relief from the soaring temperatures outside and the increasingly heated debate surrounding the U.S. debt ceiling talks, Rupert Murdoch’s phone hacking scandal, and the Grover Norquist tax pledge. I expected to be bored silly … Continue Reading
Commentary, Essays
Saving Private Ryan was a pretty good movie. It mixed comedy with drama, it was entertaining, and of course, it had good characters. I say of course because the movie was directed by Stephen Spielberg, and great characters is his trademark, from Jaws to Schindler’s List. But unlike Jaws and Schindler’s List, I felt there … Continue Reading
Essays, Literature
It’s said that Charles Dickens created 989 named characters (published in print) throughout his literary career. It’s rumored he developed one each day of his life. Somehow those numbers, while impressive, lack honesty. If the rumors are true then Mr. Dickens would have a collection close to 60,000 characters, all residing in his stable waiting … Continue Reading
Commentary, Culture, Essays
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