Category Archives: dreams

Dark Sky

Last night the sky was swollen with burgeoning tornadoes at our lakefront cottage on a hill the front room was full of dust-covered videos and you weren’t there at all. The storms never came but the sky stayed brown and … Continue reading

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It’s Been 21 Years, One Month, Three Weeks, and One Day

Roughly, or thereabouts, I figure, since I last saw you. Of course, I am forgetting the time I saw you in passing at the top of the escalators in Place Riel when you told me you were studying education and … Continue reading

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This Thing Can’t Go On

My friend PoMoAnachro is doing this Steampunk LARP. Costumes are an awful lot of fun, and if you can get enough people serious about costuming, the venue isn’t necessarily as important because the players themselves become part of the setting. … Continue reading

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Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’…

I don’t talk much about my work here. Most of that is by design; it’s a kind of ‘keep work separate from something’ thing. But it’s also because people who blog about their work, for the most part, bitch. And … Continue reading

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The thing about ouroboros

We left town for Canada Day. Initially I was going to go Away for a LARP vacation, but then after a chat with my Da it became apparent that it’d be nice to try to do something for my Grandmother’s … Continue reading

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Spring fall

The year the Saskatchewan Book Awards was held in Saskatoon at the Bessborough Hotel just happened to coincide with a visit from the blasted British royal family. The Queen was there, wearing something purple, and also there were her big-eared … Continue reading

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Once, I dreamed a flood

I’m positive I’ve talked about this here before, but I can’t find the post, owing to the fact that the search function for the old archives is dead like a dead thing. I dreamed of floodwaters rising while I was … Continue reading

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Topsy upside downy

Did you ever go to a museum and see the old buses and rail cars that have leather everywhere? I’m talking a pre-vinyl contraption where the luggage racks are made of strips of fabric or leather and the seats are … Continue reading

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Bull sharks would be way more badass if they were bull heads on shark bodies. Or shark heads on bull bodies.

But they’re not. They’re just regular, run-of-the-mill sharks who’ve developed the ability to live in fresh water. Which is totally not so effed up as to be mildly panic-inducing. If you’re the sort of person who’s afraid of sharks.  Which … Continue reading

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Dance the dance

When I was in high school, they didn’t have anything as cool as bellydance class or recreational rugby or anything like that. There were two kinds of dance in my home town, near as I can tell: line dancing and … Continue reading

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