It’s the time of year where I’m preparing courses for the Fall, and this year, I decided that I would...
Full Post • Posted August 13, 2020
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same...
Full Post • Posted July 30, 2020
* There is too much to do. So do what you see how to do. As you work, you’ll see...
Full Post • Posted July 25, 2020
Book I Two young boys grow up together in Cleveland as best friends. One is dealing with the trauma of...
Full Post • Posted July 25, 2020
“Heterosexuality sucks, even as a board game.” —Gregg Araki, *Totally F***ed Up*...
Full Post • Posted July 25, 2020
Reading the Exogenesis series (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago) I made a non-exhaustive list of themes running through Octavia Butler’s novels....
Full Post • Posted July 25, 2020
A 1954 film by François Reichenbach restored and presented by the Cinémathèque française that I found through a blog post...
Full Post • Posted July 13, 2020
I’ve realized too late that it would have been cool to keep the Government’s various info sheets as they were...
Full Post • Posted July 10, 2020
Rien n’est plus tenace que la déformation professionnelle. — Jean Cocteau, Orphée...
Full Post • Posted July 9, 2020
The troubles move at their own times. There are waves of infection. There are also waves of reaction. They don’t...
Full Post • Posted July 7, 2020
“Few fates are wholly disagreeable. If they were, we might do a better job of evading them.” — Michael Cunningham,...
Full Post • Posted July 6, 2020
Today’s thought: Ink Master and RuPaul’s Drag Race are, despite surface differences, the same show about the same subject. They...
Full Post • Posted July 4, 2020
We readily acknowledge in others an advantage in courage, in bodily strength, in experience, in agility, in beauty; but an...
Full Post • Posted June 23, 2020
This fantasy novella recounts a gay, interracial, intercultural love story. Two young men — one the son of a low-ranking...
Full Post • Posted June 22, 2020
Philippe Besson’s short novel tells of two young men in a small village on the French border with Spain who...
Full Post • Posted June 20, 2020
I can easily maintain an opinion but not choose one. — Michel de Montaigne, "Of Presumption"...
Full Post • Posted June 16, 2020
WordPress is the equivalent of the vegan’s morning egg taken from the nest of the chickens roaming freely in the...
Full Post • Posted June 13, 2020
“The problem, of course, with throwing people away is that they don’t go away. They stay in the society that...
Full Post • Posted June 10, 2020
Walking today it occurred to me that I interact with the internet the way vegans interact with food: intensely but...
Full Post • Posted June 10, 2020
We talk a lot about distraction these days, and recently a few thoughts popped into my head about what our...
Full Post • Posted June 9, 2020
I’ve seen clips of later seasons and found them mesmerizing. So with lockdown wearing on me one day and looking...
Full Post • Posted May 30, 2020
Criterion has published their June schedule, which includes a series of queer films for Pride Month that actually has me...
Full Post • Posted May 29, 2020
You should aspire to something better than the mere political use of the past or of the Other. Human scholarship...
Full Post • Posted May 29, 2020
My last post, once I saw it online, startled me with how little it captured the experience of running the...
Full Post • Posted May 29, 2020
Early Wednesday, May 20, I got up and dropped off my bike at the shop to be serviced for the...
Full Post • Posted May 28, 2020
Set in the late 18th century in Quebec, a wife finds people to care for her children and sets out...
Full Post • Posted May 27, 2020
In late 2019, a new coronavirus cropped up in China, and a few months later, it became a pandemic. The...
Full Post • Posted May 25, 2020
Yesterday I was going through some old posts on my blog for the first time in ages and what I...
Full Post • Posted May 25, 2020
The announcement has been made: classes at my college will be online in the Fall. Figuring out how to make...
Full Post • Posted May 23, 2020
I lost track of the Star Trek series early on in Voyager. So aside from the three film reboots, I’ve...
Full Post • Posted May 20, 2020
Talking about a “new normal” a few weeks ago felt like hysteria, but it seems pretty clear that many of...
Full Post • Posted May 15, 2020
…don’t make a ritual out of getting your head together… — Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle...
Full Post • Posted May 12, 2020
My brother loved the first season of True Detective. My sister-in-law loved it too. So did my mother. It stars...
Full Post • Posted May 8, 2020
Have a good one bro…...
Full Post • Posted May 8, 2020
The free hours of my daily walks have often been filled with delightful contemplations which I am sorry to have...
Full Post • Posted April 28, 2020
It was sunny and warm, so I spent the morning walking the dirt and gravel roads between the farmers’ fields....
Full Post • Posted April 27, 2020
Our lives are upside down, and yet: * hundreds of geese floated by on the river today, resting for a...
Full Post • Posted April 25, 2020
Now that I’ve sorted out how to style a personal theme, there are really only two things that annoy me...
Full Post • Posted April 25, 2020
This morning I finally sat down and figured out the odd element tags in WordPress and wrote up the additional...
Full Post • Posted April 24, 2020
I have a pair of leather shoes that I bought in 1997. I was a student, had no money, and...
Full Post • Posted April 24, 2020
It’s a fault of character to mistake kindness for foolishness....
Full Post • Posted April 24, 2020
Tinderbox only runs on macOS. There’s no iOS version. Generally, this is fine because if I’m going to work, I’m...
Full Post • Posted April 6, 2020
Yesterday was the day where I feel as if I felt something of the amplitude of the coming crisis in...
Full Post • Posted April 3, 2020
Courses are cancelled for the rest of the semester, and colleges and universities are expected to provide students with a...
Full Post • Posted March 30, 2020
The Beav and I were shaken awake this morning by an earthquake. No damage and not that strong — only...
Full Post • Posted March 30, 2020
People all seem excited about video meetings, but I loath the idea. I don’t want to see the people from...
Full Post • Posted March 26, 2020
One week into Québec’s various lock-down measures, people have gotten past the dull smothering shock of the first days and...
Full Post • Posted March 26, 2020
... & remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world. —Ocean Vuong, "Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong," Night Sky...
Full Post • Posted March 26, 2020
Québec’s response to the pandemic seems to be working. This is great news, but it’s also a sign that over...
Full Post • Posted March 22, 2020
After years of relying on map view in my TBX files, I’ve gotten to the point where I generally use...
Full Post • Posted March 22, 2020
As of today the Beav is officially quarantined because one of his work colleagues has tested positive for COVID. In...
Full Post • Posted March 20, 2020
On Anne-Marie Dussault's 24/60 the other night, a panelist gave advice for getting through the next few weeks. It boiled...
Full Post • Posted March 19, 2020
It occurs to me that one thing that's strange about the staying in is precisely that the story of staying...
Full Post • Posted March 19, 2020
(This is not a digression.) — N. K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms...
Full Post • Posted March 18, 2020
Over spring break, I travelled to the States to visit family I hadn’t seen in a long time, some of...
Full Post • Posted March 17, 2020
I thought I’d wait to deal with permalinks, but I had an idea while taking a walk and decided to...
Full Post • Posted March 16, 2020
I tried to run a blog from Tinderbox once before, but in that case, I tried to duplicate the look...
Full Post • Posted March 16, 2020
Started up a new blog this morning. It’s not a replacement for this site. OHL will stay around and I...
Full Post • Posted March 16, 2020
This is the first post of a new blog experiment that I imagine as a space for micro (and perhaps...
Full Post • Posted March 16, 2020
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Full Post • Posted March 16, 2020
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more’s the pity. So,...
Full Post • Posted February 25, 2020
You have to be somebody before you can share yourself. — Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget...
Full Post • Posted February 23, 2020
Earlier this week, I received word that my book proposal to McGill-Queens UP has been accepted. I’d already been chipping...
Full Post • Posted February 20, 2020
Remember: the rules, like streets, can only take you to known places. Underneath the grid is a field — it...
Full Post • Posted February 19, 2020
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