Retention

Re-enforcements were called in to the site of the former Burritt Bros Building at the NE corner of Main and 20th. Not sure what the plan is here, if these supports will be visible to those parking underneath or if they will be buried.

"The event had begun before the decision to enact it"

Deborah Edmeades scheduled her Wednesday Western Front performance Monologues: patriarchal traditions and the New Age at 6:45 pm so that we could be with the setting sun as it streamed through the Luxe's five west-facing windows. Each window features an element (metronome, human figure, music stand, etc.) related to her lecture.

Massy Books Gallery

Massy Books has an art gallery upstairs in the back. Kennedy Telford has a work there (above), entitled Gothic (tribute to Grant Wood). No date attached, only a price: $250.

A small room behind a bay window. A single bed, a table and chair, and a sink. I could manage something larger, with more conveniences, but I could never match the view.

Yesterday was mostly just me computtering around, picking from the interweb things for my academic c.v. (I had forgotten that I moderated a panel for the Shaq’sthut: Gathering Place Colloquium at UBC in 2008 -- but I had not forgotten the great circle around us, where everyone introduced themselves, the laughing and the joking, particularly at the expense of the chatty Tsimshians!)

When not doing that, I was flipping through my new book trying to decide what to read at its launch tonight. Launches aren't readings -- they're launches -- so I don't want to go on too long.

Come to the launch: 7pm at Massy Books (229 East Georgia Street).

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A Poem by Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

NEW

We knew.

    Anne to come.   

    Anne to come.   

    Be new.

    Be new too.

    Anne to come   

    Anne to come   

    Be new

    Be new too.

    And anew.

    Anne to come.   

    Anne anew.

    Anne do come.

    Anne do come too, to come and to come not to come and as to

and new, and new too.   

    Anne do come.   

    Anne knew.

    Anne to come.   

    Anne anew.

    Anne to come.   

    And as new.

    Anne to come to come too.

    Half of it.

    Was she

    Windows

    Was she

    Or mine

    Was she

    Or as she

    For she or she or sure.   

    Enable her to say.   

    And enable her to say.

    Or half way.

    Sitting down.

    Half sitting down.

    And another way.

    Their ships

    And please.

    As the other side.

    And another side

    Incoming   

    Favorable and be fought.

    Adds to it.

    In half.

    Take the place of take the place of take the place of taking   

place.

    Take the place of in places.

    Take the place of taken in place of places.

    Take the place of it, she takes it in the place of it. In the way   

of arches architecture.

    Who has seen shown

    You do.

    Hoodoo.

    If can in countenance to countenance a countenance as in as   

seen.

    Change it.

    Not nearly so much.

    He had.   

    She had.   

    Had she.

    He had nearly very nearly as much.

    She had very nearly as much as had had.

    Had she.   

    She had.

    Loose loosen, Loose losten to losten, to lose.

    Many.

    If a little if as little if as little as that.

    If as little as that, if it is as little as that that is if it is very nearly all of it, her dear her dear does not mention a ball at all.

    Actually.

    As to this.

    Actually as to this.

    High or do you do it.

    Actually as to this high or do you do it.   

    Not how do you do it.

    Actually as to this.

    Not having been or not having been nor having been or not

having been.   

    Interrupted.

    All of this makes it unanxiously.

    Feel so.

    Add to it.

    As add to it.   

    He.

    He.

    As add to it.   

    As add to it.   

    As he

    As he as add to it.

    He.

    As he

    Add to it.   

    Not so far.   

    Constantly as seen.

    Not as far as to mean.

    I mean I mean.

    Constantly.   

    As far.

    So far.

    Forbore.

    He forbore.   

    To forbear.

    Their forbears.

    Plainly.

    In so far.   

    Instance.

    For instance.

    In so far.

David Clayton Thomas & the Bossmen "Brainwashed" (1966)

I've been brainwashed
I've been brainwashed
I woke up one morning and I took a look around
found myself sleeping in the city dog pound
told myself this just can't be
in the home of the brave and the land of the free
I finally found my voice and I began to shout
I got to got to tell you what it's all about
I've been brainwashed
brainwashed 

Now it pours from my papers from my radio
telling me what to do and which way to go
white knight charging down at me with a lance
drives in my belly I don't stand me a chance
stem the over population take a walk in outer space
I got to got to tell you what we all got to face
We've been brainwashed
brainwashed

Down with the hangman
rather fight than switch
public insulation gotta know which is which
we won ourselves a victory the casualties were light
judging by the news machine it ain't much of a fight
60 million people reading all about Viet Nam
85 percent of them don't give a damn
They've been brainwashed
They've been brainwashed