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writer
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posted 26 April 2002 04:32 PM      Profile for writer     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
An evening with:
  • MT Kelly, author of Save Me Joe Lewis;
  • Judy MacDonald, editor emeritus of rabble.ca and author of Grey: Stories for Grown-ups;
  • Michael V Smith, who wrote Cumberland;
  • Nicholas Pashley, creator of Notes on a Beermat.

April 29, 2002
7:30 p.m.
$5 cover
This Ain't the Rosedale Library
483 Church Street
416.929.9912

I stumbled over a nice little write-up on my talk about writing at Simon Fraser University in February. Thought some might be curious:
www.maryhill.com

[ April 26, 2002: Message edited by: writer ]

Edited again so the subject line reflects more late-breaking reading action.

[ May 01, 2002: Message edited by: writer ]


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Michelle
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posted 26 April 2002 05:40 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
You're delightfully quirkly!


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writer
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posted 26 April 2002 06:51 PM      Profile for writer     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I *love* that word.
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skdadl
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posted 27 April 2002 10:10 AM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I think you're quirkly too. I think it's especially delightfully quirkly for us that you appear still to be working. And I've always been glad that you don't treat us just like readers.

Nick Pashley is delightfully quirkly too (as I'm sure Kelly and Smith are -- just that I've never heard them read so can't testify).


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'lance
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posted 27 April 2002 12:48 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
quirkly

I missed the added "l" in this word, and was wondering, what's the big deal with "quirky"? Good word, yes. But the "l" makes it, like that extra unexpected chord in a guitar riff or something.

How could I have missed the "l"? Is my editor's third eye starting to fail me?


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skdadl
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posted 27 April 2002 01:16 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
*skdadl will be boring alert*

Well, it's unexpected partly because -ly tends to be (isn't always) the sign of an adverb in English, whereas making an adjective with just -y is most common.

*return to interesting posts*


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posted 27 April 2002 01:39 PM      Profile for writer     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Oh, skdadl, I could talk about this stuff till the cows come home. Some day, when we finally meet in the real world, I have to tell you a very funny editing dream I had when starting out.

... and you can take the girl out of the job, but taking the job out of the girl ... that takes time.


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'lance
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posted 27 April 2002 07:22 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Fifteen years in my case, and counting. But then I'm a boy, which could be significant.
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posted 29 April 2002 12:07 PM      Profile for writer     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Tonight, tonight ...
quote:
Reading Judy MacDonald's fiction is like watching a hummingbird attack a hollyhock -- the narration swoops, dives and flits from observation to observation, hovers and hesitates and then finally lands right on target with a devastating stillness and accuracy.
- Richard Vaughan, eye magazine


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posted 29 April 2002 12:19 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The new issue of Geist arrived on Friday. Tipped off by now (I'm slow, but I get there), I immediately scanned the Contents, and there she was. Now I have read "It."

By the end of the first column, I found that I had to stand up to keep reading the story, and then I had to walk around to finish. Truth is beauty is the hardest thought. Author! Author!


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posted 29 April 2002 03:17 PM      Profile for writer     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thanks, Ms. S. Hope to see some folks there!
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skdadl
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posted 30 April 2002 10:03 AM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
So how did it go? Us shut-ins want to know.
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posted 30 April 2002 01:03 PM      Profile for writer     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Much fun. No babblers that I'm aware of. A strange beer-and-sex theme infused three of four readings (including my own).
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posted 01 May 2002 07:00 PM      Profile for writer     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
So, for those who remain desperate to see me read:

This time around, I'll be incorporating music and wacky poetics into my routine! Yowzah.


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'lance
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posted 01 May 2002 07:20 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Dammit! You Central Canadians get all the big-time acts!

I loved your reading in Vancouver, writer, but you didn't infuse that with a strange beer-and-sex theme...


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posted 01 May 2002 11:51 PM      Profile for writer     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Aw, stobbit! Ya got the little boy's fantasies about breastfeeding, greedy gus! *And* a story based in Brampton. The guy in the latter story had clearly been imbibing to boot, so it was sort of a beer tale.

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posted 02 May 2002 12:03 AM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
True, true...

So, (when) are you coming to read in Cowtown? I know the perfect time -- Stampede Week! We know how to spread out the welcome mat for vistin' scribblers! Yee-haw!!


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posted 02 May 2002 10:10 AM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Is "prize budget for boys" somebody's name, or is it one of those groups I don't know about?
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posted 02 May 2002 12:23 PM      Profile for writer     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
skdadl, according to a well placed source:

quote:
... we will be having a 'special' performance by Prize Budget for Boys (Neil Hennessy, Jason LeHeup, and Ian Hooper). this performance USUALLY takes 2 sets of 15 minutes each, so what we've decided to do is divide th night's readings as such:

steve mccaffery, PBfB, break, th lovely and talented miss judy, PBfB, break, and a very small open mic.


This is all I know.

[ May 02, 2002: Message edited by: writer ]


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posted 15 May 2002 04:44 PM      Profile for writer     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Next Tuesday! Woo hoo! I'll be performing with musician / artist Pete Dako for my reading of "Cut the Cheese," and presenting excerpts from a found-opus-in-progress, "Dead Doctors Don't Lie." Fun, no? Here's the bumpf the shameless promoters have provided:

LEXICONJURY VIII:
The Magic Display Cafe

Tuesday, May 21st, 8pm
The Pilot Tavern, Upstairs
22 Cumberland Street
Yorkville, Toronto

featuring the remarkable talents of:

judy macdonald. in its simplest form, judy macdonald consists of a single author trapped in a heart-shaped box. the box is sealed, such that she cannot be acoustically observed. at this point there are two authors. after a brief exploratory period the reading begins, and the universe splits into a pair of parallel universes, one where the audience hears author A, and the other where they hear author B. this is known as the many worlds interpretation. the many worlds interpretation was the basis for the popular 90s television show "Melrose Place".

steve mccaffery. in its simplest form, steve mccaffery consists of a single author trapped in a glass box. the box is filled with water and has no visible means of escape. after a brief exploratory period the author is lowered into the box, at which point the reading begins. the box, when powered in this way and fitted with a proper antenna, can pick up CFTO, CITY-TV and the CBC. on clear days its reception has been known to stretch all the way to buffalo.

prize budget for boys. in its simplest form, prize budget for boys consists of three authors trapped in a small metal box. the box is equipped with a lever that, when pressed, activates the release of a can of mountain dew. after a brief exploratory period, the authors will repeat the lever-pushing and ultimately make an association between the operant and audience reaction. at night they emit a soft glow, not unlike phosphor, or the end of a cigarette.

an open mic will follow, with the usual lex regs: 1 poem + 1 cover.

those without a cover, or who show no mercy to their audience, will be relegated to a digital subscriber channel well up in the 200s.

a few additional lex notes:
due to time contraints the open mic will have to be shortened to six readers, so get there early.
get there early anyway... what's up with all this showing up at 9 stuff? trust us... you won't want to miss a thing.

please note that this month's Word calendar lists us on the wrong date...

come visit our website... http://www.alienated.net/lexiconjury
thanks for making the shows cool... see you tuesday.

... Also, here's yet another review of Grey:
http://www.danforthreview.com/reviews/fiction/judy_macdonald.htm


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posted 15 May 2002 05:37 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
So, like, did you win the prize? (The budget for boys. It's an idea, having a budget for boys ...)
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