Complaining with Kay, Episode 29.5, Literary Supplement: In cold blood.

IN this episode:
- In cold blood
- Awkward love
- He sits
- Dead sea scroll.
Music: Excerpts from “Cephalopodae” by Benjamin Mueller-Heaslip, performed by the Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra.
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What was THIS supposed to be?

Ran across a file today titled “The Migraine Muse”.  I don’t remember writing it, though it’s obvious that I did.
The Migraine Muse
Ellen bit her lip.  The pain was subsiding, and with it she felt her grasp on her story slip away – Dolly the pretty one, Marjorie the silent stern patient one, Mickey the lovable [...]

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Dead sea scroll

What you write goes out in the world.  Whether you like it or not, it travels.  Mostly not very far, but sometimes very far, very far indeed; and when it does, you no longer can stop others from reading into it what they want to see.
“No,” you can say, “no, that’s not what I meant.  [...]

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You don’t need to put on a show. You’re already my friend.

You don’t need to impress me.
You don’t need to make me laugh.
You don’t need to be smarter than me,
You don’t need to know about nuclear physics or Schonberg.
You don’t need to be tall or be good at chess,
You don’t need to be psychic or in touch with God.
You don’t need to be anything but yourself;
You [...]

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Complaining with Kay, Episode 22.5, Literary Supplement: Soldier.

In this episode:
Soldier
“I lied about my wedding ring…”
Two-page story
Sax solo
Music:
“Egyptian Song” (Rupert Davies, arr. and performed by Benjamin Mueller-Heaslip
My dorky piano rendition of “Dream a little dream of me”
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Spoiler

Hey there, sad, miserable, lonely person, don’t try to bring the world down, OK?  Not the world, not even one person, not even if you hate him.  Not even if he hurt you and he deserved it.  Not for that.  Not for anything.
I’m no stranger to revenge, but I know it doesn’t work.  In the [...]

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Complaining with Kay, Episode 18.5: The Literary Supplement

I read some little things I’ve written – some prose poems and one, um, poem poem.
“On one of the streets near where I live…”
First Love
Ground State
“Will you say to yourself…”
Music in this episode:
“Kornblumen” (Richard Strauss, performed by me and Ben – recorded live at Hart House last November)
“Fleurs” (Francis Poulenc, performed by me and Ben [...]

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Two-page story

I just found this in a notebook.  It might be some kind of prose poem or the beginning of a science fiction novel.  Hard to say.  It’s called “Two-Page Story” because the only constraint I set was that it had to fit in exactly two pages of the notebook. I think it’s from this February, [...]

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Scene

While I have some awesome content to add about yesterday’s mammoth bike ride through Toronto (I am actually kind of glad I didn’t get a chance to bike to Waterloo after all – I am NOT in condition for an 80-100 km ride, let alone a return trip two days later), I have to go [...]

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People lie on the Internet

For one reason or another, I’ve been either participating in or witnessing a variety of flame wars (mostly on Pharyngula or BoingBoing, though I had an awful experience in a thread on circumcision on Science-Based Medicine).  The bizarre behaviour of the common or garden troll – the willful stupidity, the name-calling, the veritable smorgasbord of [...]

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