http://erosandcivilization.blogdrive.com/ Eros/Civilization Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:45:03 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2005. Arts Books Writing http://erosandcivilization.blogdrive.com/archive/5.html Fri, 29 Jul 2005 07:43:25 GMT Nope. Nothing to say. No thoughts to put out there. It's been weeks since anything of note entered my mind. Reading alot. Sorting lots of books. Looking at the sky. Wondering... Someone said to me in an email "sinking sink sunk". What the hell? Why must we sink? SO many of us are in that same leaky boat. Why? What the hell is going on? What the hell ISN'T going on? I think Ginsberg said "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness...starving, hysterical, naked". At least... (more) http://erosandcivilization.blogdrive.com/comments?id=5 http://erosandcivilization.blogdrive.com/archive/3.html Tue, 05 Jul 2005 06:47:28 GMT With the rain, comes the threat of mosquitos breeding in stagnant pools of water. That's what I keep hearing: "stagnant pools of water". As one who loves simile, metaphor and everything inbetween, this phrase is a gas. To me, it relates to everything: history, culture, friends, family and books. All of which can become quite stagnant over time, leading to the multiplication of blood sucking vermin in the form of angst, repression and just plain boredom. While rereading Kerouac (I've read "On the Road" five times during the past month) I came to realize that the author - as cool... (more) http://erosandcivilization.blogdrive.com/comments?id=3 http://erosandcivilization.blogdrive.com/archive/2.html Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:38:34 GMT Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. By Stuart Ross Anvil Press. ISBN: 1-895636-65-5. $16 CAN / $14 US Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is equal parts literary memoir, advice for the emerging writer, and reckless tirade. Ross has been active in the Canadian literary underground for a quarter of a century: he's sold thousands of his books in the streets, published and edited magazines, trained insurgents in his Poetry Boot Camps, and started Canada's first Small Press Book Fair. Where the media focusses only on the glamorous literary lives of its few superstars, Ross gives... (more) http://erosandcivilization.blogdrive.com/comments?id=2 http://erosandcivilization.blogdrive.com/archive/1.html Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:17:40 GMT Where I have been and what I have been doing is - of course - irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that I have been doing NOTHING with my life except working, reading and existing. The fact of the matter is that I have NOTHING to say about anything or anyone. Society, Politics and History tastes like chicken. Recent Arts and Culture is also - surprisingly - chicken-like in texture and taste. The heady days of spouting off and actually challenging the lame nature of Canadian Arts, Culture, Literature and Civilization are now behind me. I've decided to embrace my... (more) http://erosandcivilization.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1