tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214171522024-03-07T17:05:17.961-06:00functional nomadThink of the Ice Creamfunctional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-27496537217219912532011-03-05T21:45:00.000-06:002011-03-05T21:45:32.994-06:00** POST-POETRY: A Roundtable Discussion on Contemporary Poetics ** <br />
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Please join us in St. Catharines, ON for a Roundtable Discussion on Contemporary Poetics, led by Steve McCaffery (Buffalo, NY), Karen Mac Cormack (Buffalo, NY), derek beaulieu (Calgary, AB), kevin mcpherson eckhoff (Kelowna, BC), Gary Barwin (Hamilton, ON), bill bissett (Toronto/Lunaria, ON/?), and Honey Novik (Toronto, ON), and hosted by local poet and professor Gregory Betts. Coffee and snacks will be provided. <br />
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Where: The Niagara Artists’ Centre, 354 St. Paul Street <br />
When: 10am Saturday 12 March 2011 <br />
Cost: Free, courtesy the Department of English Language and Literature, Brock University <br />
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This event follows the Friday launch of the Bird is the Word exhibit at the NAC exploring the intersection of literature and the visual arts. For more details on the exhibition please visit the NAC website: <br />
http://www.nac.org/programs/show-room-gallery/show-room-schedule/257-the-bird-is-the-word-9-march-4-june.htmlfunctional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-29360709613316683152011-03-03T12:46:00.000-06:002011-03-03T12:46:49.540-06:00Upcoming events: reading with Pamela Porter, Terry Trowbridge, James Millhaven, and Jade Alyssa at the Niagara Falls public library on the 26th of March.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhozvCj0pfUa_HhTGInGjA-Wn2J8kdMhyXbzfrja0M52mtMXOCQpT2Xj7mvBVM6X01cViAjzDAzyVgs-n4LvjYATW8kELh3YYlQB5Wj6wYJVXaKdtTGfxUqQQEbRIzIo-2Er2dY/s1600/Porter+Virus+Poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="400" width="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhozvCj0pfUa_HhTGInGjA-Wn2J8kdMhyXbzfrja0M52mtMXOCQpT2Xj7mvBVM6X01cViAjzDAzyVgs-n4LvjYATW8kELh3YYlQB5Wj6wYJVXaKdtTGfxUqQQEbRIzIo-2Er2dY/s400/Porter+Virus+Poster.jpg" /></a></div>functional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-74861730865987863842008-10-07T22:17:00.001-05:002008-10-07T22:17:28.183-05:00<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UqUmN9-FTmU&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UqUmN9-FTmU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>functional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-85916388206452860232008-08-13T19:30:00.000-05:002008-08-13T19:32:24.508-05:00<a style="left: 0px ! important; top: 15px ! important;" title="Block this object with Adblock Plus" class="abp-objtab-04979025279844893 visible" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ec7Kbm4wymI&hl=en&fs=1"></a><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ec7Kbm4wymI&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ec7Kbm4wymI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />And so ends <a href="http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=124&csid2=844&fid1=32904">an era</a>.functional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-18998526786233434332008-04-02T13:03:00.000-05:002008-04-02T13:04:04.988-05:00<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dsU3B0W3TMs&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dsU3B0W3TMs&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>functional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-41864572651652765992008-03-31T10:54:00.001-05:002008-03-31T10:54:38.275-05:00<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Z-2uBeMgV4I&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Z-2uBeMgV4I&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>functional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-31174266858516882842008-03-26T12:37:00.000-05:002008-03-26T12:38:58.019-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Robbie_Mackinnon/513264926"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://torontoist.com/attachments/toronto_david/robert_mckinnon_rubikscube3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">cube-art by Robbie Mackinnon<br /></div>functional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-80870538751313319432008-03-14T15:39:00.002-05:002008-03-26T12:41:30.872-05:00Bike seasons comin', somewhere just over the horizon of the next snowstorm or so...<br /><br /><br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ahg6qcgoay4&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ahg6qcgoay4&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>functional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-7534158339578401132008-03-11T15:25:00.003-05:002008-03-11T15:28:26.499-05:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">A new chapbook -- from <a href="http://www.ditchpoetry.com/trainwreckpress.htm">Trainwreck Press</a> out in Newfoundland!</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ditchpoetry.com/trainwreckpress.htm"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.ditchpoetry.com/The%20Others%20cover%202.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I've also got some <a href="http://www.ditchpoetry.com/gregorybetts.htm">poems up here</a>.functional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-28186895301557200162008-03-02T22:32:00.001-06:002008-03-02T22:37:13.764-06:00See the light.<object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rBBCJ68mC4c"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rBBCJ68mC4c" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object>functional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-35654512173466431502008-02-24T10:26:00.001-06:002008-02-24T10:26:54.520-06:00<a style="left: 0px ! important; top: 0px ! important;" title="Block this object with Adblock Plus" class="abp-objtab-0681014275656739 visible" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/JIFEceopAUI&rel=1"></a><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JIFEceopAUI&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JIFEceopAUI&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object>functional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-41019235153716024042008-02-10T21:05:00.001-06:002008-02-10T21:05:59.630-06:00Call to Action<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/YrkchXCzY70' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/YrkchXCzY70'/></object></p><p>Beware the 10th of February.</p></div>functional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-45044563527281531032008-02-01T19:14:00.000-06:002008-02-01T19:15:22.887-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOK2Z6pROB3pP7h04xfDh55u3-rS15u_H4e1sTvq7AsX_sFIW-1q09XEu_KOwWN7mZlvPCEyqYMK0tg62qAf1WPqnJlb3J2dPHPMqbQLBjGAA_jFQOQPSY02-VjE4GhxmnZs_r/s1600-h/GetImage+copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOK2Z6pROB3pP7h04xfDh55u3-rS15u_H4e1sTvq7AsX_sFIW-1q09XEu_KOwWN7mZlvPCEyqYMK0tg62qAf1WPqnJlb3J2dPHPMqbQLBjGAA_jFQOQPSY02-VjE4GhxmnZs_r/s400/GetImage+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162185161902284578" border="0" /></a>functional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-14655768388840889552007-09-28T23:04:00.000-05:002007-09-28T23:11:11.699-05:00<object height="350" width="425">It's closing time...<br /><br />City council in Toronto controls an agency called the TPA, that is the Toronto Parking Authority, who have made <a href="http://www.thestar.com/News/article/260491">moves recently</a> to expropriate a building in <a href="http://spacing.ca/">the city</a> -- <a href="http://www.martiniboys.com/Toronto/The-Matador-Club-nightlife.html">the Matador</a> -- to build parking spots -- twenty of them -- for the benefit of this <a href="http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2001/06/daily-06-06-2001.shtml">American Christian company</a>.<br /><br />As usual, Cohen said it best, years ago --<br /><br /><br /><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hrPEM2qc-j8"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hrPEM2qc-j8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object>functional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-24483776047911013292007-08-16T23:39:00.001-05:002007-12-20T11:50:36.661-06:00it's not quebec, by a long shot, and i imagine it's still really hard to grow up here without dreaming of somewhere else. still -- there's a remarkable transition underfoot i don't really know how to explain. it's coming from all directions and it contradicts some of the things i've held sacrosanct for a long time. the city used to have a typical functioning downtown -- you buy all you need, hardware, groceries, books, paint, people selling things to people. maybe something special if you know the right way to ask, or speak the right second language. then the invasion of the big box, the grey belt. the entire city has a dull halo pinning it to a sour earth. but here's what i don't quite get. all the stores shut down, the real stores, and you get a generation of skuzzy bars in the downtown, things start declining. paint starts peeling. the downtown hollows out. naturally, right?<br /><br />but there's a shift. the big box stores handle all the practical needs -- and everybody has to drive -- but suddenly the downtown has begun handling all the intimate needs; conversations, art, poetry, meals, walking, and wine. a dive filled with barflys just shut down near my home, and gets replaced by a yoga studio. a pawn shop reopens as an artist run enclave. a fast-food joint gets remodeled as a real restaurant. is it gentrification? or is the town working out some kind of delicate re-balancing with the monolithic monsters just outside the gates? maybe we're working up to a guelph, maybe one day towards a kingston? i don't know. but i do know that suddenly people are talking about shutting down mainstreet once a week in the evenings for an art and social night. that people are talking about surrealism as if its something that can be done here.<br /><br />what is it? i don't know. but cats on the prowl. funny little tom town.functional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-31503430435650379852007-08-02T01:45:00.000-05:002007-08-02T01:56:28.846-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPzVTrta3cgeKWtwFly9kKGZn6Dv8hZpMKb-TPPmQX0lCR1234FSO0dHN2HoYCrR_fsrPQ_XEqGfufRuw-W5TdJS-HpIZizIDo-PlXJ_3qU8EnL8xMskPi6Xstw1KY4EoEzeLG/s1600-h/July+2007+046.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPzVTrta3cgeKWtwFly9kKGZn6Dv8hZpMKb-TPPmQX0lCR1234FSO0dHN2HoYCrR_fsrPQ_XEqGfufRuw-W5TdJS-HpIZizIDo-PlXJ_3qU8EnL8xMskPi6Xstw1KY4EoEzeLG/s400/July+2007+046.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093990855674916258" border="0" /></a><br />this is my nephew, who came up to visit with his cousins and siblings to have a bonfire cookout in the backyard. it was their first camping experience, and i'm glad they got to experience the wildlife of st. catharines. ryan, pictured, stepped out of the safari for bit though, and came up to look at some books. he pulled out the collected poems of wilfrid laurier and began finger painting dactyls with the saliva of gob stoppers. the book, which is actually a compendium of papers stuffed in a manufactured envelope, a jack-daw, formally, fluttered about the room, thrilled. it crash landed on a northrop frye text, cowering beneath a clown mask, shivering in the slumbers of exaggerated smiles. ryan saw through the ruse and fed papers and open-tipped markers down the stairs, that both might meet each other as needs dictate.<br /><br />he turned, on cue, and with an ironic twang sang to me the proletariat theme-song of youth, 'i'm a big kid now.'<br /><br />here is another photo of him and <a href="http://iloveyou365.blogspot.com/2007/02/i-love-you-at-sky-library-feeling-like.html">his sister,</a> in leopard-skin glory, just before bed.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0R3G105fU-mrnhi6G6FTBZ_f9u5d53hT5XQwrTy8m0ZNCgMrZXeg5ezrVSIBPHsFJQruSH_2m5KXnPaUPoAiLabwMpE0R6hKMFx9EfuJ62rBwb6LiZJY251ZzLb7U-_GK8czZ/s1600-h/July+2007+039.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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Poems from 1984. The work has been translated from the Apple IIe (my first computer) to the internet age and thus preserved.<br /><br /><a href="http://vispo.com/bp/">http://vispo.com/bp/</a><br />or go here for a direct link to the <a href="http://vispo.com/bp/javascriptversion.htm">javascript</a><br /><br /><br />The poems are not remarkable as examples of technology, but they are remarkable for transliterating Nichol's work to the dynamic page. Some of the poems, such as "silent sound poem," mimic Nichol's voice. Other's, such as "Construction 1" and the off-screen love poem make more extensive use of the possibilities of mobile text.<br /><br />The discussion by the creators of the page is perhaps the most interesting part of the site -- Jim Andrews, Geof Huth, Lionel Kearns, Marko Niemi, and Dan Waber -- for drawing attention to the danger of advancing technology in the computer age. As programs become instantly obsolete, the work of recuperating them and sustaining significant works created through those programs, becomes ever more onerous. In this case, a 4000 line work by Nichol to create a short montage of digital poems required extensive labour to resuscitate. It is a good thing they have done by so doing. The site as a whole demonstrates the rapidity of technological change and the changing role of archivists now and in the future.functional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-1166657918620463142006-12-20T17:38:00.000-06:002006-12-20T17:38:43.156-06:00<embed src='http://www.atomfilms.com:80/a/autoplayer/shareEmbed.swf?keyword=rabbit' width='426' height='350'></embed>functional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417152.post-1163611411698337632006-11-15T11:22:00.000-06:002006-11-15T11:23:32.880-06:00Upcoming Reading:<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gregory Betts and Carole Malyon</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Grey Borders Reading Series</span><br />at the Merchant Ale House<br />St. Catharines ON<br />21 November at 7:30 pm</blockquote><br /><br />hope to see you there...!functional nomadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092338988269338147noreply@blogger.com0