Posted in Family, Relationships, tagged Family, Parenting, Personal on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night, I was supposed to be amid 10,000 denim- and leather-clad headbangers, screaming, singing, and generally rocking out with Rob Halford, icon of queerdom in heavy metal, and his bandmates, icons of metal more generally. Judas Priest.
Alas, it was not to be. With my ex moving out last week, and me moving upstairs next, and [...]
Posted in Family, Misc., tagged Personal on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Came over to the Island with Mica last night, Megan joining us this evening (yay!) for her turn at ‘meet-the-parents’. My folks live in Fanny Bay, but we instead went straight to Comox to see a fleet of massive canoes arrive as part of Tribal Journeys.
This canoe voyage sees bands from not only BC but also Alaska, the [...]
Posted in Misc., tagged Personal on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes everything just seems right. And this weekend was one of those. There was stuff to do, and it was even a bit busy and stressful at times, but as I hit Monday and start a new week, Mica back with me after some time with her mom, I just feel so damn good about [...]
Posted in Political Stuff, tagged Resistance, The Left on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I finally located a song I’ve been looking for for a while. Well, two songs actually. Abdullah Ibrahim, the South African jazz pianist, performing “Tula Dubula” and “Hit and Run”. Generally he was an instrumentalist, but here he sings of the anti-apartheid struggle, and armed resistance.
In the township afternoon, songs of their impending doom
The racists [...]
Posted in Political Stuff, tagged Resistance, Southern Africa on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I am thinking of Steven Biko. Student leader and a central figure of the anti-apartheid struggle in the mid-1970s, Biko founded the Black Consciousness Movement. He spoke a very different language that that of the better-known ANC – a language not of multi-racial organizing, but of autonomy; a language not intended to bring whites [...]
Posted in Misc., tagged Personal on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Home again, home again, jiggety-jog.
A thirteen-hour trek door to door yesterday, from Queens to Vancouver. A tired kid, and a tired dad who also was one guy very very keen on getting back to his lover and partner.
New York – hot as hell, with a freakish wall of rain at exactly the moment we ran [...]
Posted in Misc., tagged Personal on July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hot in the New York summer, even now around 10:30 at night. But somehow it feels good – perhaps for the beer, perhaps for the day that this follows, perhaps for Mica reading quietly beside me, perhaps for all of the above.
A simple post today, just a quick update on our day.
The morning was intended [...]
Posted in Political Stuff, tagged Central America, Childhood, The Left on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The United States of America. That name inspires a lot of feeling in me. Anger, fear, confundedness. But mostly revulsion.
Strong word, I know. But it really does hit me that hard. So hard I can feel it in my throat. I can feel my chest constrict.
When I think of the United States, [...]
Posted in Relationships, tagged Personal, Relationships on July 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photographs are amazing things. Now, I’m not a photographer by any stretch. Nor even much of an appreciator of the photo as art form. But today, I am acutely aware of pictures, and the way that a simple photo can transform an emotional space.
Here I am in Kingston, Ontario. On holidays with my daughter, [...]
Posted in Misc., tagged Personal on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sun shines and summer calls. In a few hours Mica and I head off to the airport to begin our summer adventure. First stop, Toronto overnight for a barbecue and catch-up with my buddy Colin. In the a.m. it’s on the train – Mica’s first rail-ride – to Kingston to visit with my eledest brother, [...]
