Supper with Roy and Slav last night, then off to the Freddy Wood Theatre to hear Arjun Appadurai’s talk “Solids and Liquids: Notes on the Materialities of Terror,” which is part of larger series of talks on terror at UBC this fall. Interesting read on how the materials of everyday life, from toothpaste to shave…

Coming to Calgary next week to convocate! Yahoo! Would love to see you what remains of the Cowtown crew, if you guys are still reading this. Monday night at the KP?

Here’s a few pics from The Parade of Lost Souls, the Oddballs Dance at the WISE Hall, and a dinner at Monsoon after the Arif Dirlik book launch last week. Friends, comrades and partners in crime: Ken Singer, Melina Baum-Singer, David Chariandy and Sophie McCall.

Unless you’re there right now, unfortunately, you’ve missed the Christian Bok reading at KSW this afternoon. Sorry Christian! I’m there in spirit… Just recovering from a very compelling grad student conference at SFU, called Sexing the Text. Some highlights for me: the Friday evening creative panel, especially readings by Kim Minkus, Maya Seuss and Sharanpal…

In other recent adventures: A trip to Victoria, Mom in tow, to do a talk for the Provost’s office at UVic on race, gender, community work and writing. Performed with Ashok Mathur. We seem to be a regular dog and pony show these days. There is a small, but very attentive community of writers and…

The interview with Eric Rankin for the Think Vancouver series on CBC was lots of fun. Got to give my whimsical conjecture on the future of the city. They did lots of fun graphic inserts of a future Vancouver in which Bladerunner/Metropolis-esque flying vehicles swoop in and through the skyscrapers. Here’s a snip of my…

i’m on it! if you’re in bc, that is. i’m supposed be on today sometime after the 6 o’clock news, talking about the future of vancouver. (cbc, channel 3) hopefully i don’t say anything too dumb, so i don’t live to regret this post. lots of adventures lately, more soon.

my friend glen lowry, who has just moved over from coquitlam college to emily carr institute of art and design (yay, glen!) and is doing many great things there, recently turned me on to the work of brian lamb:abject learningsurfing that site, i found this:futurenatural there is cool stuff out there! while i’m on the…