From 14 August 2005, Journal:
For a while now I’ve been thinking of something I read when I was following Babylon 5 back in the mid-90s. JMS had written of how formality arises in a post war period. Spent the early afternoon trying to track this down, and came up with the following messages. I think [...]
Category Archives: Journal Excerpt
Mad Men?
23 April 2009 – 10:21 pm
Octobers
9 October 2007 – 10:20 pm
From Journal
13 October 2004
I got off at 5, walked to U of T for this lecture I was looking forward to, and quickly found it boring. It put me to sleep. It was all about the fact that radiocarbon dating is rewriting the chronologies complied by Aeagan scholars a hundred years ago, and that [...]
Sex in the City
30 September 2007 – 8:56 pm
From Juxtapoz, Oct 2007 n81 (pages 60;64):
William Buzzell: A lot of people move to NYC and end up staying there the rest of their lives, but you haven’t fit that mold.
AJ Fosik: Well, I had an idealized version when I moved to NYC, too; that it would be this great artist community and that there [...]
Journal July 2005
18 September 2007 – 9:25 pm
In the end, it’s that I don’t take art that seriously anymore. I mean, I appreciate that Chris Hand wrote that ‘blogTo takes art very very seriously’ and that he linked to a bunch of my articles; but lately, having decided not to post about the Power Plant show (at least not the Lignon [...]
12 June 1996
12 June 2006 – 5:15 pm
Wednesday 12 June 1996. Now the day before, with the landlord shit, I made a call for an appointment with our landlord Mr. S. So I got up at 12.30, and at 1.10 was out the door, to Duke St, where I got some money and then caught a bus to go to Fairview. The [...]
A Note
25 April 2006 – 7:28 pm
Found today in a 1998 notebook:
As cultural professionals, you or I should study all the things, regardless of whether they speak to us on a deep personal level. But generally speaking, you only need a couple of paintings, a couple of poems, a couple of pieces of music to last a whole lifetime. I have [...]
31 January 1986
31 January 2006 – 11:32 pm
Friday 31 January 1986
Happy Birthday! Mine. Nobody tried to spank me.1 Fun at night.2 Packed the car for gunshow. Next day.3
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1.Getting spanked on your birthday was the tradition where I grew up, in addition to having butter put on your nose.
2. I don’t remember any of this actually. Oddly enough what I didn’t write down [...]
being blind to what’s behind
18 December 2005 – 11:38 pm
I’m borderline bored today. Read some of Sources of the Self but there’s too much talk of God. Read about how he thinks we may be in a watershed time (written though in the late 1980s) and spoke of how we have a hard time imagining old ideas like the divine right of kings. I’m [...]
Where is Santa Claus?
8 December 2005 – 8:39 am
From my journal at the time, where I’d copied and translated it. From my Grade 10 French Class fifteen years ago, dated December 8 1990: Where is Santa Claus?Where is Santa Claus? To discover the answer to this question, I set about asking children. I asked nearly fifteen children when one told me where he [...]
From the journal, 7 July 1999
7 July 2005 – 9:30 pm
In the future, people will consult machines, which will publish ‘you are’ books. Having analyzed you inside and out, through remarkably in depth ways – you will be presented with a canon of yourself. Thus defined you will either take comfort or squirm.