COVID-19 Pandemic and Racism Endemic Have F**ked the Funny Out of Me

Save me from myself, please! As I descend into a possibly terminal state of Toxic Earnestness on a pikestaff "BEST OF MY BLOG" Here I revisit a strangely still-relevant post from July, 2020. Mice still scurry, cockroaches practice their tight-rope walking, Karens still shriek and white people are still wastes of skin in Range Rovers. …

Monthly Mayhem, Again

my occasional caustic, unapologetically subjective, and very eclectic digest of all the news that gives me fits when it’s in print Let’s take stock. How is the world doing these days? It’s been on fire! Australia just couldn’t stop burning, nor could the west coast of Canada and the US, with entire towns wiped out, thousands …

Semantic Bleaching

"Life on hold sucks!"read the bus shelter ad. They meant the pandemicI suppose But what a wry, ironic understatementIf you think of the awesome reality of life on hold. {That's awesome in its original meaningOf inspiring ecstasy and terror, the experienceThat the Romantics called the sublimeAnd that must have also crossed Aristotle's mind when he …

A Forced March Into an Already-Old New Year

Lockdown lunacy, a challenge for Nicole—and Trump's "come-as-dumb-as-you-are" farewell party, with sparklers. I’M PANDEMICKED, WHO ARE YOU? ARE you Pandemicked, too? Did you awaken this morning, as I did, with a stone for a heart, and emitting a groan that echoed through the inner city like twelve ambulances en route to a burning trap house? …

Being Thankful is SUCH a Bitch

PLUS: Come back to daddy Yesterday was Canadian Thanksgiving, which always takes place on the second Monday in October. I can already hear everyone tittering condescendingly about our sad, off-kilter and irrelevant Canadian habits and how we're just so obviously and sycophantically trying to be American, like little brother checking his pee-pee, then peeking at …