I’m on the road for a few days. In the meantime, dig a few poems from Sherman Alexie, whose home state I am visiting: Defending Walt Whitman Basketball is like this for young Indian boys, all arms and legs and serious stomach muscles. Every body is brown! These are the twentieth-century warriors who will never kill, although a few sat quietly in the deserts of Kuwait, waiting for orders to do something, to do something. God, there is nothing as beautiful as a jumpshot on a reservation summer basketball court where the ball is moist with sweat, and makes a …
There is something otherwordly about the National Rifle Association sponsoring Postal Matches. Upon first seeing the link at the NRA website (don’t ask…) I thought it had something to do with post-office shootings. Guess not.
A skywriter creates a Korean flag at the 2003 Korea Air Show Photo from the Globe and Mail I am struck by the notion of a Yin-Yang symbol suspended in air created at an airshow that exists mostly to sell military hardware.
A letter published in yesterday’s Globe and Mail, Canada’s national paper of record: The Irving family doesn’t own the only exclusive fishing lodge in Canada. Someone should check with Red Green to determine how many freeloading ministers of the crown had free accomodations at Possum Lodge. Those found guilty should be duct-taped to a chair and forced to spend 24 hours in a small room with Stinky Peterson. Anyone who thinks Canada doesn’t have a unique culture should try to explain those three sentences to an Austrian.