Page and Turners is the new feel awesome. I was thinking about how I miss all the free advance reader’s edition I used to get at the VeryLargeBookstore. Rueful reminiscence was me.
Then the guy at Barrie’s finest bookstore hooked me up with an uncorrected proof of Chuck Klosterman’s upcoming novel just cause he remembered me [...]
For the townspeople of Barrie it is a time of resolution. We’re finding criminals and victims for all of our crimes. The old people and the letter-writers are pleased.
Who burned down the buildings at five-points? Toronto people. Whose bones were those at Johnson’s beach? The same unfortunate woman who left some of her bones in [...]
“letitia heights possie”.
Quaint.
So I’m just standing here, ruminating. Flipping through my RSS feeds. Leisurely.
I’m a very important man so my feed reader is PACKED! But I’m keeping on top of it.
A forty-some-odd-year-old woman walks up, with two kids in tow. She’s picking them up from LEGO Store Summer Day Camp 2007. It’s the most popular and profitable [...]
New words from Barrie, where payday loan outfits outnumber Tim Hortonses and people will tan themselves till they’re blind and leathery but will scream their little lungs out at a town meeting opposing the construction of a new cell tower for fear of “radiations.”
downposit: n. The $200-$1000 security deposit demanded by a cellular phone company [...]
Every night for the past few nights a dense fog has descended on our dingy little town, a grey mist with headlights cutting through it on their way uptown. It’s like whatever god is using Barrie as a wind tunnel to study the aerodynamic properties of backwater mid-size commuter cities.
And they said “store it in a cool, dry place.”
I have an apartment and the whole scene reminds me of my favorite Traveling Wilburys song, an excerpt of which follows:
I drove around the city
Looking for a room
That was high above the water
Where my things could be in tune
There was no [...]