To celebrate the start of winter, or not – this is very subjective – I have a new story published by the great people at Joyland, called Cold. I’m lucky to live in a place that still has winter (I kind of like it) though it doesn’t have winter enough. We used to get a [...]
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New Short Story Published at Joyland
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Explaining the Noodle
I changed my Twitter homepage set up. Because I could. I’m not crazy about the design, and frankly, I’m never on the Twitter website itself because YOU DON’T NEED TO BE but I changed the image because I wanted to express myself, I guess, without getting too Madonna about it. (Not that there’s anything wrong [...]
Posted in Blog Also tagged ceramics, curry, David Chang, Food, Francis Lam, Kate Moss, Madonna, Matthew J. Rosenberg, noodles, ramen, Twitter 1 Comment
Random Thoughts About Clouds, Dancing Writers, TV, Boomers, Beer and Serena’s Butt
Thoughts generally are random. That’s what makes them magical. Or at least interesting. The random nature of thought, or what some of us might call stream of consciousness, leads to the difficult brilliance of the likes of Joyce and Borges, or the hilarious (but studied) non-sequiturs of Family Guy’s Stewie Griffin. Wait. I think watching [...]
Posted in Blog Also tagged Amazon, beer, Borges, clouds, Hong Kong, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, Joyce, Kuala Lumpur, Leopold Bloom, Malaysia, Margaret Atwood, Quebec, Spock, Stephen King, Stewie Griffin, Waterstone's, writing Leave a comment
Two Very Different Books, One Recommendation
Two books by two friends. I met Steve way, way back – he was in my first creative writing class. Steve, myself, and Dave McGimpsey were kind of like the three outliers in a class that was populated by the kind of earnest students dipping their pens into the philosophy de jour. I won’t say [...]
This is What Busy Looks Like
Nothing. It looks like nothing because you don’t get anything done. It’s an empty box, sunshine without light, warmth without heat. Plans get demolished, not by anything sinister, but by life, by the forward progress of time, by the inevitable bullshit of living, the accretion of layers of stuff, things we have to climb over [...]
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Tourism Montreal
I never posted this. Tourisme Montreal was doing a series of insider type “locals” interviews with Montrealers a while back and they chose me for their first one. How far back? Well, my bar became a cafe and I’m still sad about it. Very sad. Everything else I mention here is open. And I don’t [...]
It’s The Heat and Humidity
Heat. There’s some real heat out there now and while it feels nice, I don’t quite function properly in Montreal’s heat. I never have. It often surprises people (ok, it surprises Americans mostly) how hot Montreal gets in the summer and especially the humidity, which can be infernal, and I suppose I’m Canadian enough to [...]
