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Recipe Cards from a Fish Company
These two pieces of cooking ephemera were found in a second-hand book. At first I thought they were decorated with simulated coffee mug stains. On closer examination and noticing the logo of the company in the right hand corner, I … Continue reading
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As the Wisteria Twines
A wondrous woody vine, wisteria stretches up and over supporting structures just like this opening verse Don’t blame the wisteria for setting off a feeling like freedom a feeling like joy Deborah Landau “don’t blame the wisteria” in Soft targets … Continue reading
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Listen to be Heard
Toronto Public Health has a Child Friendly Policy Framework with a notable acknowledgement of the importance of culture in its set of vision statements Vision Children in Toronto are valued, listened to and treated with respect. Children in Toronto thrive … Continue reading
A Pair of Ends, A Pair of Means
Long ago I had written longhand along the front of a file folder the following aphorism: Reject Perfectionism – Strive for Excellence Found the folder again and took a moment to ponder how well I may have followed my own … Continue reading
Descant on the Descent of Dissent
I thought there were pronounced distinctly differently (long e for descent; short i for dissent) until I read this accidental in a text by Andrew Steves. Nonconformist publishers can be put at a considerable competitive disadvantage if their choice to … Continue reading
Circumbendibus
Listening to a performance of Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer I delight in hearing this lovely enumeration and had to share the pleasure with mine eyes: I first took them down Feather-bed Lane, where we stuck fast in the … Continue reading
Taking Stock of the Stochastic
“Introduction: Antinormativity’s Queer Conventions” Robyn Wiegman and Elizabeth A. Wilson differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies Vol. 26, No. 1 Norms generate not sovereignties, but overdetermined relationalities. [N]ormativity is a structure of proliferations: some of these normative proliferations duplicate … Continue reading
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Painting, Image, Model
The model is not a muse. The painting is not an image. Matisse: A Way of life in the South of France text by Gilles Plazy He did not have the haste of the impressionists who chain the canvas to … Continue reading
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I ♥ The Ubiquitous Promiscuous Heart
This line speaks to a modus vivendi… To ♥ New York is to love it in an epicurean way, with one’s whole body, to accept its flaws, to revel in its sensory overload, to become accustomed to the unexpected. which … Continue reading
Dialogue-provoking Temporal Deictic
Nic Salvato “Camp Performance and the Case of Discotropic” in After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory and Sexuality in the 21st Century edited by Tyler Bradway and E.L. McCallum A close reading of time stamps (and this day which is not … Continue reading