Borders

May 14, 2003

A wonderful friend from my old street, Columbus Avenue in Beverly, Mass., sent me a real (paper) letter. Among other things, he told me that my old house is now a deeper shade of lilac, which meant that the new owners haven’t abandoned the unorthodox colour scheme. (We had startled our street several years ago […]

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Bodies

May 13, 2003

“Island of Sifnos” is one of nearly 30 brief stories by John Berger, collected in his book, Photocopies. “Sifnos” deals with how we perceptualize our bodies. Berger reminds us that it was here — in this geographic and climatic region called the Aegean — “that the first atomic theory of the universe was formulated. It […]

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Possessed / Enthralled

May 12, 2003

I just finished reading Leonid Tsypkin’s Summer in Baden-Baden. Tsypkin’s novel focusses on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s season of gambling in Baden-Baden, a narrative thread interrupted by accounts of Tsypkin’s own life as he journeys by train from Moscow to Leningrad, a scholarly fan on the writer’s trail. Compared to his probing of the frenzied, impassioned, and […]

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Garden tour

May 11, 2003

Wowie-zowie, perhaps she can be taught…. This post is basically fluff, I’m trying to learn how to use iPhoto on my iBook to put pictures into my blog. So far, I have only succeeded in putting in giant sized links that destroy the format of my pages, but I think I’ve got it now. Ok, […]

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Sentences

May 10, 2003

Update on Amina Lawal: Nearly a week ago (May 4) I pointed to a Spanish Amnesty International site’s online petition to save the life of Amina Lawal, who has been sentenced in Nigeria to death by stoning for the “crime” of having had adulterous sex. Michele Landsberg’s column in today’s Toronto Star emphasizes that the […]

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Waffling

May 10, 2003

It appears that Canada is caving in to pressure from the US: Ottawa backs off pot law plans.

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I am not your ordinary run of the mill transvestite! (- Clouseau)

May 10, 2003

There’s nothing like Inspector Clouseau’s words of wisdom (favourite epithet: “swine”) to make one laugh. I’m watching The Revenge of the Pink Panther, and Clouseau has just caught fire while dressed up as a slightly crippled Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. Now he’s trying to fight off a pre-emptive attack by his man-servant, Cato. The question is, however, […]

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Virtually real, spectacularly virtual?

May 9, 2003

Last night I came upon Betsy Devine’s blog for the first time. It’s a great blog — very smart, lots of humour, too. (I also learned that she’s the mother of Amity (Nature is Profligate) Wilczek, whose blog really caught my imagination when it showed up on the Harvard weblogs. It’s rather fun to find […]

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Timewarp Thursdays

May 8, 2003

Betty Krawczyk and Jen Bradley were arrested today for blocking Weyerhaeuser Corporation’s access to a logging road in the Walbran Forest. See yesterday’s blog as well as May 3’s for more info. Krawczyk has now improved her chances of achieving one of her goals, which is to bring these forest management issues into the court […]

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Of campers, rapture, and companion animals

May 7, 2003

Along with other protesters and Women in the Woods, Betty Krawczyk continues to occupy a strategic logging road in the Upper Walbran Forest. Click here to see the press releases on the group’s new website, with a great photo of Briony Penn interviewing Betty Krawczyk. (More photos on the site’s other pages.) They look like […]

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