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Kaffeeklatch Talk

Posted on September 29, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Found in reviews of a coffee house situated in Atlanta, Georgia, variant spellings of “spiel” spheal a long schpeeeeel Playful ways to describe barista disquisitions on the making of a good cup. A purist, I think I will stick to … Continue reading →

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2002 Same Difference

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Maurizio Cattelan’s Him come upon after a teddy bear depiction context produces quite the effect as recorded by Sascha Hastings in Now. Yet the real shocker comes in a small dead-end room at the end of a long photo-lined passageway. … Continue reading →

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One More Letter from a Boss

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Another letter from another boss. Dante Camisa, owner of Dante’s Tavern and Restaurant in Kapuskasing wrote a lovely TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN letter in all caps in September 1979. As befits a bus boy, I am accorded the following … Continue reading →

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Lost and Lost

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Francois Lachance

The refrain from Wintersleep “Weighty Ghost” from the album Welcome to the Night Sky Have you seen my ghost? Staring at the ground? Have you seen my ghost? Sick of those goddamn clouds Seems so simple here bare of the … Continue reading →

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Intellectual Soulmates

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 26, No. 478. My contribution to a thread about quitting the search for an academic job (and the resentment of years devoted to graduate work that do not come to fruition in landing a tenure track … Continue reading →

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McLuhan Misquote

Posted on September 16, 2007 by Francois Lachance

I’m so glad that some one else has caught him doing it. I documented a number of instances in “Proxemics and Prosthetics“. “But soft! what light through yonder window breaks?/It speaks, and yet says nothing.” An apt description of TV, … Continue reading →

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A Word from the Boss

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Francois Lachance

I was very fortunate to work for a while for a senior civil servant in Ontario. Angela Longo upon taking up another assignment wrote personalized hand written messages for her staff. I’ve kept mine not only because it says nice … Continue reading →

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Flown South

Posted on September 14, 2007 by Francois Lachance

After Symanntha Renn http://failingathaiku.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/wandering-in-the-open/ naked trees against the sky birds have no where to hide nests bared to the world glass houses abandoned to some south green secret some stayed to caw I found Renn’s image of the glass house … Continue reading →

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Captured

Posted on September 13, 2007 by Francois Lachance

There is a pivotal moment in the short piece by Kelley Armstrong in the Globe and Mail‘s summer fiction series… William heard his grandmother’s voice from all those years ago, when she’d seen what he’d done to the barn cats. … Continue reading →

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Revisiting Touches of Metadata

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Pulled from the html source of splash page for Table of Contents (named “Bridge“) for Sense: Orientations, Meanings, Apparatus <head> <title> Sorties et entrées </title> <meta name=”author” content=”Francois Lachance”> <meta name=”title” content=”Sense: Orientations, Meanings, Apparatus. Ideological dimensions of select twentieth-century … Continue reading →

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