Mr. Rambally and His Rambler

In the eleventh grade I moved to a new town; I didn’t know anyone, but I started at a new high school, and I was still fit enough to cycle around the neighborhood. I decided to cycle in the direction I’d seen a cute girl in my class walk home, as a way of choosing [...]

The Gate

Have you ever listened to that Belle & Sebastian song, The Gate? If you haven’t, here’s a chance: download it and listen to it.
There’s something so sad, and yet also so hopeful about this song. I don’t mean just the lyrics, I mean there is something about the music. As I walked around downtown [...]

What’s Your Digital IQ?

You can find out here.
Mine’s 112. This surprises me.

Scary Love Cartoon

One of the first friends I ever made in Korea sent me this cartoon, instructing me to send it to whichever girl I like best.
I decided not to send it to the girl I like best because that girl already knows my feelings, and because, well, this cartoon is really quite scary. Isn’t it? [...]

Another Man Down…

Hugh Kenner is dead.
I remember reading a lot of his The Pound Era when I was studying modernist lit with Andre Furlani at Concordia University. Kenner was probably the most interesting and evocative literary scholar whose work I’d ever studied. It made Pound’s world, and the world of his cohorts, so lucid for me, in [...]

100 Things

I have had an email address since 1995, which is not as long as it feels like it has been to me. In fact, I have had a total of 6 email addresses since 1995, and three or four of them are still active (but only two of them are ever used in a given [...]

The Bookshelves In My Room

The current issue of City Online has an article about Broadway songwriter Richard Rogers. People find his way enigmatic, his reclusion and difficulty with other people. I have to admit, it’s not something to aspire to, but I can understand why people close themselves up that way. Some people need to do that to be [...]

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