Riding Shotgun

ramblings from the passenger's seat

Wednesday, May 12, 2004

feel free to recommend Lists of Three.
George Bowering. Louise Gluck. The North American Tennis championships. George weighing in for the Canucks and Louise playing for the yankees. It is sure to be a most excellent match. Now I don't know enough about the contestants to comment on the nature of the competition but it is guaranteed to be ...poetic? The two poet laureates weilding words like rackets and sending swift volleys of symbolism. Serving up fast and furious alliteration, the trick though is enjambment playing the ball around the court. Whimsical? Perhaps.

Sunday, May 09, 2004

Kalachakra 2004 was held in Toronto. A unique buddhist ceremony of which only 29 have been held under the current Dalai Lama. I did not know this until today. I may not be buddhist but I believe our news media should have mentioned this alongside their controversy-mongering between the Chinese and Tibetan communities in Canada. This was the true purpose of the visit not some gripe for seperatism. I am angry. I am also drunk...the hypocrisy of my behaviour is staggering ( I was staggering as I walked home). Enraged by a missed oppurtunity for enlightenment I proceeded to drink a great deal of alcohol for no other reason then that a friend returned from Spain. Enlightenment+ missed oppurtunity...the solution= inebriation? is it only me that finds my actions deplorable? I think not. I am a hypocrite....tomorrow I will be hungover...enlightenmnet is far off....far off indeed. Stupid carnal pleasures.......

All grammar and or spelling mistakes are alcohol induced. I wanted to use the word 'attribute' in the disclaimer here but well I didn't. So be it.

Wednesday, May 05, 2004

and then...
That's how things end you know.