Goodness Out There
It’s hard to believe that the weekend is only half over. It’s been chuck full and with guests for two days. I’ll be giving short shrift to all this goodness unfortunately but better that than to pass without mentioning the launch Friday. There was a good-sized, and appreciative, crowd. A few of you reading were there. A few of you could of been there and missed some good stuff. And a few of you should move to Ottawa. 
Lucky for you, either way you can still read it: Ottawater is a pdf poetry annual magazine. It’s got interviews and art and poetry of a range of styles.
The few pics I took were between slightly and spectacularly blurred but this gives some idea of the look of things in Mercury Lounge.
If you’re out west, for Scottish-Chinese hapa Canadians there was a poetry event to celebrate combined heritages: Robbie Burns intersects Chinese influences, a poetry nite vancouver with Gung Haggis Fat Choi is today.
The next big poetry event in Vancouver is the Individual World Poetry Slam. It starts in a couple days.
Odds and ends…
Want to see an offbeat surreal film? The German film Tuvalu is sepia toned and essentially without dialogue.
Mmmm, Walnut Almond Squares…
This Indexed is food for thought in many directions.
Blog Link: Preeminent playback Bollywood singer Asha Bhosle in interview at NPR thru All Forces
Quote: “Smile, it’s free therapy.” — Doug Horton
Do you read, Pearl. If you lived here I’d invite you to our TEAPOETS SOCIETY. We teaparty with poetry.
I love that quote and believe it: Smile: It’s free therapy.
Like the quote and I love the chicken cartoon!
I may never live in Ottawa.. but I would love to visit some day. Have you heard the latest? Winnipeg and Ottawa have a competition on.. who has the world’s longest skating rink. Currently Ottawa is in the Guinness World Records.. but now it appears, because of your very mild winter.. Winnipeg is attempting to challenge the endeavour. Let the skating begin.