sebastian and garry

for love milk human

Me and Taipei City Cultural Commissioner Liao after the final panel two Fridays ago. This pub is in an old Japanese house. It has an extensive bar menu and a great Chinese food menu. Fabulous local greens, ma po tofu, clay pot rice. I wish there was a place like this in Calgary.

a painting in the foyer of the rido. “look at them,” says roy, “they are all asians.” we long for a reflection of ourselves in the history of the other– colonial mimicry or propulsion into a miscegenated future? love letters to a fantasy europe, our home away from home…

roy and rita kitty corner to the rainbow market of the handicapped on our first day in taipei

my deluxe bedroom at the rido hotel, aka the love shack, in taipei. my room was japanese style. some of the others had euro style rooms vaguely reminiscent of some palace in versailles in the 18th century, with divans, dark wood, fine china and frilly pillows. the hotel was a compelling fantasy space somewhere between…

chapbooks and comic books at Magpie, a magazine store on Commericial Drive in Vancouver. i return to the neighbourhood of my lost youth next month.

i love you blogger, you endlessly attentive extension of my electric brain. i’ve missed my calgary friends, but it’s too late to call anyone. i’m stumbling through the floozy wooze of re-entry jeg lag. the shock of self-confrontation, this disastrous apartment that needs to be picked up and moved into the future. it judges my…