Studio photography session + 40 years =
This is also the year during which Sir Paul is 64. I doubt he was thinking he’d be going through a bitter divorce, nor that the studio session would result in the work being reduced to a glyph in a computer’s software program for a company that he’d had [...]
From the website of Darren O’Donnell’s Mammalian Diving Reflex
Good Reads Loves Diplomatic Immunities & A Video Show for the People of Pakistan and India
Critic and blogger Timothy Comeau writes on his Good Reads site of the ridiculously narrow coverage of the “war on terror”, complaining, rightly, that even the CBC can’t seem to get more [...]
Henry Chadwick: Envoi: On Taking Leave of Antiquity in The Oxford History of the Roman World (1986)
Yet, even the barbarian invasions of the 5th Century AD fail to mark a decisive ending to the structures and values of classical Greece and Rome. If by ‘the end of the ancient world’ we mean the loss [...]
Today is the type of day when I should be browsing in used bookstores: spring rain days, with classical music on the iPod, the stickiness of the humidity making my clothes cling as I look at the spines of books on row after row, while the shop owner plays classical music from CBC Radio2. In [...]
This is to document a citation.
On her blog, Milena Placentile directs her readers to the last issue of Goodreads, for my comments on Thrush Holmes Empire and the links to Michael Kuchma’s reviews.
Two thousand and fifty-one years ago they stabbed him until the blood pooled bright red – almost a neon orange – on the senate chamber floor. They were small of stature and small in number. Outside the spring sun shone done on a younger Rome, and we hear birds chirping, and in the voices of [...]
I just found a review of last night’s Trampoline Hall, where I was the second speaker:
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Growing old gracefully was ideal to the night’s second speaker as well. Timothy Comeau recalled his grandfathers fondness, in later life, for tea and crackers before bed and cited it as part of his personal vision of “the good life”. [...]
I was quoted in Nadja Sayej’s piece in this weekend’s Globe and Mail. Nadja talked to me for a half-hour last weekend and it’s funny to see the conversation reduced to one sentence, and to see that it was edited to say that I attend this home shows, when I in fact do not. What [...]
(from Goodreads)
This Goodreads is in part of confession of ignorance, and how wonderful things can be when you don’t have the full picture. Which is to say, they’re fantastic when not dulled by the acquired cynicism of ‘an inside story’. And perhaps it is by coming to the experience initially ignorant, having that wonderful first [...]