The consensus that I’m hearing from a lot of friends this morning is that it’s great that Barack Obama just won the Nobel Peace Prize – and now that he has, maybe he can finally get around to accomplishing something. Indeed, even this piece in the Huffington Post asserts that the honour itself is “enormously […]

I haven’t done much with the old blog lately. I’ve been posting fairly often, and defending my turf from punks, but that’s about it. At least, that’s how it might look to the untrained eye. A couple of weeks ago, I set up a basic private web server on my home network. It’s nothing fancy, […]

Last night’s edition of Strong Words was one of the best readings we’ve done all year. Bruce Hunter was great, Ramabai Espinet was great, and Terry Watada was great. It was very much the sort of compelling and eclectic reading that we try to do each month, and it has to be said that Spencer […]

By the time you get to be a certain age, there’s really nothing you can call your significant other that doesn’t sounds a little childish, or too formal, or otherwise inappropriate. “Significant other,” for example, sounds a bit too dry and pretentious. I’ve never really liked that one. Throughout the bulk of my relationship with […]

As I mentioned a little while back, Yo! Jamz is on hiatus at Augusta House for the time being. There may be some new events in the near future, but it’s not my place to tell you anything yet. All I can do is invite you to stay tuned. In the meantime, I’m working on […]

A couple of weeks ago, after I’d finally gotten around to reading The Catcher in the Rye, I sat down and rattled off this post. It was an admittedly hamfisted take on Salinger’s writing style, and it probably would have gone unnoticed if a perfect stranger hadn’t stumbled across it last week and gotten surprisingly […]

I’ve got to get out of the habit of sleeping until noon on Sundays. Up until recently, I had a fairly good routine of getting up early and writing three comic strips. It was a great way to start the day, and by the time noon rolled around I’d have a week’s worth of “work” […]