hole/some magazines

An isolated pen
in which you may protest,
citizen.
        -- Colin Smith, "Stooge"

Last Sunday marked the launch of some magazine at Kino Cafe on Cambie. Edited by Rob Manery (he and Louis Cabri edited hole back in the 1990s), some features contributors familiar to those familiar with the now defunct Kootenay School of Writing membership and its guests.

About 2/3rds through the eight person reading, Steve Collis took the stage, looked around at the 80+ gathered and rejoiced that "all of Vancouver's avant garde is here!" When I looked around, all I saw, apart from Roy Miki and the ubiquitous Isabella Wang, was what anthropologist Eric Wolf saw in Victoria, B.C. in the early 1980s when he stepped before a packed lecture hall, shook his head and muttered into the microphone: "A sea of white faces."