October 26, 2005
I have measured out my life in sugar spoons
How quickly the surfaces of our house become covered with empty mugs. If tea were oil, I’d be a sheikh.
October 23, 2005
I love Leonard
Thanks to my devoted co-publisher, nineteen copies of “Spring Comes Suddenly” are nearly assembled. There used to be twenty but one died in the copier. They still require binding and their beautiful strip of Japanese paper down the side, but we’ve got a few days before the Toronto Small Press Book Fair which is of course this Saturday 29 October 2005 from 11am-5pm at Trinity-St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St W, Toronto. Stuart is really being a regular Leonard Woolf about the whole thing. He does the laundry too!
October 23, 2005
The Amazing Ms. Smith
I went to see Zadie Smith interviewed at the International Festival of Authors yesterday, and if I had actually paid for my ticket rather than get a free student pass, it would have been money well spent. She was incredible- so intelligent, interesting and characteristically cutting in an admirable way. I enjoyed what she had to say about loving books, and living through books. I love her confidence to invent worlds she’s never even seen. I’ve also heard rumours that I will be receiving “On Beauty” as a gift in the near-future, and I am so excited to read it.
October 20, 2005
Good news
Rory Carroll, who since yesterday has become Pickle Me This’s favourite freckly ginger journalist pinup, has been freed in Baghdad. Talk about capturing hearts.
In sweeping-the-nation news, Gas and Dash is sweeping Nova Scotia. And apparently happy slapping, the original nation sweeper, is still going strong.
October 20, 2005
Miffys in the Mail!!
Look who arrived at our house today, a wonderful surprise courtesy of the wonderful Bronwyn Enright. We got the one on the right, Miffy in overalls. I travelled Nippon for a year searching for her to no avail, and now she’s mine! It’s been a long time since new Miffy goods came my way. She joins a larger Miffy stuffed toy, a Miffy head pillow, the Dick Bruna elephant and a stuff Snuffy (Miffy’s dog), the Miffy t-shirt I happened to be wearing today, the Miffy soap and bathsalt in our bathroom, two Miffy picture frames, one Miffy glass, two Mugs, a lunch box, two sets of chopsticks, two childrens’ books, two purses and I am sure something else. This love will never die.
The other good news is that if I hadn’t wasted my entire afternoon doing my creative writing exercise incorrectly, I would have completed everything I had to do today. Currently dreaming undergraduate essays again.
October 16, 2005
Call for Submissions
Pickle Me This Press is now accepting submissions for our second publication, an anthology of poems about knitting, entitled “This Machine Kills Fascists.” Please send your knit poetry to picklemethispressATgmaildotcom by January 31st, with your contact information and a short biography.
October 16, 2005
Stuff to see
Robbie Williams wants a pop amnesty. Free verse is doing Stephen Fry’s head in. On author photographs. Maryam Namazie and the clash of liberalisms. Plath to Moss: The Primrose Hill set. A friend of ours in Japan got married this past weekend, and photos are posted here. Sasha Trudeau goes to China.
October 15, 2005
Saturday Morning
What now? Check out my arts and crafts/recycled object furniture at Now Doing. This website continues to be wonderful. Now reading Eight Months On Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel, and it’s absolutely enthralling. And “Spring Comes Suddenly” was printed yesterday. Next up is the binding. It’s turning out really beautiful.
The clouds sail by like ships on a sea.
October 9, 2005
Lurkey
Post Thanksgiving dinner. I found a 2002 article by Margaret Atwood on To the Lighthouse. Zoe Williams says it’s ok to have normal-sized things. On Ethan Hawke, who as “Troy” in Reality Bites taught me loads about cool. Joan Didion in the NYTimes.
