I went to see the film Holy Motors last night. Wow. I hadn’t read any reviews because I didn’t want other people’s impressions to color my experience. I do know that it made a ton of top ten lists and is lauded all over the globe. But “Wow” is my Read more…
Hope on a Tightrope by Cornel West 8 min on the bed, 1.15.13 It’s not her fault. She had to share everything until she could provide it for herself. There wasn’t one thing she ever had new before the age of nine. There were eight of them and she Read more…
The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman 8 min in bed, 1.14.13 It is one o’clock in the morning and I am wide awake. I am seven years old and I cannot sleep. I am a very new seven because my birthday was just three weeks ago, but someone once told my Read more…
Astray by Emma Donaghue 8 min @ Hub Coffeehouse, 1.11.13 Why didn’t she remember that she hated musicals? Well technically Pip didn’t hate musicals anymore, and there was so much hype around the film. Dom like everyone else wanted to check out the pomp and pageantry, but this was that one. Read more…
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo 8 min @ my desk, TO I said I would be your forever friend and I meant it. But I didn’t realize you’d go bat shit crazy. — No, I don’t think I’m the culprit. Because you didn’t uphold your end of the friendship Read more…
Casanova by Ian Kelly 8 min. 12.11.12 @ Sense Appeal, 96 Spadina Hot sweats. That’s what she calls them because that’s what they are. She was never prone to sweating. It wasn’t a question of physical exertion; despite being active she was never one to have pit stains. But now Read more…
Casanova by Ian Kelly 8 min. 12.11.12 @ Sense Appeal, 96 Spadina Hot sweats. That’s what she calls them because that’s what they are. She was never prone to sweating. It wasn’t a question of physical exertion; despite being active she was never one to have pit stains. But now Read more…
Passion & Power edited by Kathy Peiss and Christina Simmons 8 min 12.10.12 @ Sublime Espresso Bar I’m a miracle baby. The chances that I should even be here on the planet are like one in a hundred thousand. Maybe more, math isn’t my forte. But I’m supposed to be Read more…