Consolation Champs

Can’t resist a little self-promotion:
They may not be the A list, but they’re definitely in the upper echelons of the B list, and in this tiny, incestuous corner of cyberspace, B list counts for something.
— Elizabeth Spiers
Amen!

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Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times
Once upon a time, I thought of myself as a poet. I began writing poetry in my teens (one early effort considered the Kennedy assassination as appropriate subject matter) and filled many notebooks with my self-conscious scribbling. I was single-minded in my determination to be published, too. I gathered around […]

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The Reverend Mel White was a good evangelical soldier for a long time. He ghost-wrote books for Christian leaders like Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham and Pat Robertson. But he had a secret that caused him torment for many years. He was gay. After many years of “reparative therapies” that included electric shock and exorcism, he […]

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Thanks to Neil, I’ve inherited a musical baton with which to beat you around the head and shoulders. Here we go:
Total volume of music files on my computer: 22.82 GB (5,419 songs) on my work computer, where I listen to the most music. (For the sake of completeness, 26.11 GB on my home system, which […]

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Toronto actor Jason Hildebrand is performing a one-man show this weekend based on Donald Miller’s book Blue Like Jazz. This will be touring Europe and the rest of North America this fall, but if you live in Toronto, this promises to be a very interesting presentation of the ideas presented in the book, which declares […]

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Dave is putting together a list. He’d better not forget my favourites: Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, M. Emmet Walsh, John Turturro, and the inestimable Jack Kehler.

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Brooke and I have struggled over the years to find a church home. Though I’d consider myself a convinced Christian, Brooke still has a lot of questions, and that’s a difficult situation in which to meet new people. I’ve also struggled personally for a long time trying to recapture the feeling of vibrant community with […]

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