A discussion with activist cartoonist and BEER MYSTIC host, Ken Avidor [here posed as Greek God of Mini-Golf, Nkolfus, in…more
Essays
Floco Tausin
For centuries, scholars try to find an explanation for the mobile, scattered and transparent spheres and strings in our visual field. Early on in ophthalmological tradition, the origin was thought to be in the eye. The phenomenon was considered a disorder or degeneration somewhere between cornea and retina.
bart plantenga
An interview with Karen Lillis When I was just beginning high school I was one scared, miffed, gawky, pimply kid,…more
Keshav Das
“Drugs,” an excerpt from Barefoot in the Heart “Muktananda, Shirdi Sai Baba and Hari Das Baba would never take LSD.”…more
Mark McCawley
The dilemma with writing anything edgy or transgressive in Canada, isn’t that it is all too often written from the…more
bart plantenga
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners • Albert Camus…more
bart plantenga
Apparently I said “In NY the louder and crazier you sound, the more attention you seem to get,” and this…more
bart plantenga
Hitching through mid-1970s Canada usually meant Canadian Border Services stopping you, inquiring how much money you had on your person.…more
Erika Schickel
I recently watched a “reality” show called “The Bad Girls Club” and was saddened by what current culture has come to accept as “badness” in women.
bart plantenga
I suddenly have vivid memories of survival in Flint, Michigan, Motor City Jr., birthplace of GM. I was a stranger…more
