Who knew that Abitibi- Témiscamingue has such a vibrant and varied emerging music scene?
Daily Roundup: From the Depths of FME
Daily Roundup: Antihistamine Dream
When I experience stress, it manifests directly in my physical body. As someone with an anxiety disorder, I get the usual panic attacks and spiralling thoughts and sudden inexplicable aversions, but much more so than in my mind my stress appears on my body. Specifically, it shows up on my skin.
Book Review: This Is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death
Many people shut down, wall off, block when they experience trauma. I pick at wounds, worry cuts inside of my mouth with my tongue, won’t stop touching things at they heal. I bang myself against trauma until I’m not scared of it any more. There are smarter ways to move in the world, most likely, ways that don’t lead to walking around with so much ugly car tissue, but it’s my way.
Daily Roundup: Downpour Edition
The weather is so terrible that it’s looked like the dead of night outside my windows since this morning and the thunder is stressing Harley out so bad she’s hiding in her crate chewing on her dog bed.
Daily Roundup: Cronut Survivor
This update is, somewhat unusually, going to begin with a gastrointestinal update. Read more…
Weekly Roundup: Returning to the World Edition
Blinking blearily at my computer screen, like a caver who hasn’t see natural light in two weeks, I start vaguely groping towards being a person on the internet again. Ever just not check your inbox for a week? Yeah.
Going quiet for a bit
I’m going to be away for about a week, maybe a bit more. Expect it to be a bit quiet around here for a few days, and please be patient with me, as I expect I will be much slower than usual at responding to correspondence. I will be back in touch as soon as I can.
Daily Roundup: Syndicates and Divine Rights
A quiet Tuesday.
Daily Roundup: The Death of a Triceratops
All weekend, between writing projects and bbq-ing vast quantities of almost-bad meat for my inlaws (because nothing beats freezer burn like marinade and fire), I’ve been picking away at my website, updating all of my outbound links so that all the pages that link to my writing were more recent than, oh, FEBRUARY. Time for another resolution to update my bibliography every week! BLARG.
World Takeover, Book Review Edition
Earlier in July, I wrote a review of the excellent novel The ‘Geisters by David Nickle for the National Post. It’s a scary, kinky, harrowing, squicky and deeply haunting ghost story, and I thoroughly enjoyed every page of it.
