CHRISTMAS 1970.
by Spike Milligan
A little girl called Sile Javotte
Said ‘Look at the lovely presents I’ve got’
While a little girl in Biafra said
‘Oh what a lovely slice of bread’.
Remember the Leaf
Will moved his toe in the cold water. Leaves exhaled the last breath of fall. Genevieve listened.
“In geological time, all this, this big catastrophe, it’s nothing. It’s the world blinking,” he said, staring into the creek.[1]
“How can you say that? Art, civilization, beauty, love, war, the rise and fall of empires—it’s not [...]
Behind the Scenes of my “New” Used Jeans
My most recent acquisition is a pair of used Levi’s jeans, made in Mexico of 100% cotton. The housing co-op where I live has a ‘free box’ in the laundry room, where any resident can drop off unwanted clothes for other residents to wear. I’m not sure how old these jeans are, or how [...]
Waste Management is a true symbol of Globalization, being part of both the problem and part of the solution we have chosen. The topic of waste is one that is, or should be, more and more on the forefront of our concerns.
These are photographs of 3 Waste Management Bins. They are [...]
ORGANIC FOODS F.A.Q. (MCLAUGHLIN MIX)
Given that you have the time and the internet access to be checking out this lovely website, dear reader, it’s a safe bet that you don’t have to think too hard about the food you eat. Grocery shopping is a simple chore. You just wander in to the local supermarket and load up. Even if [...]
Earth has passed the stage of adolescence,
No longer like new blooms or sprouting stems:
We have raped her virgin ecosystems,
Her beauty into middle age descends.
She now realizes her life will end,
killing the creatures that inhabit her;
But pities not her great inhibitor,
To us, [...]
Sixty years ago, the world gasped in horror at the discovery of a program of systematic murder intent on annihilating particular groups of people, most notably Jews and Gypsies. While the term genocide has recently been used by the Bush Administration to depict the on-going human rights violations in the Darfur region of Sudan, very [...]
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October 16th, 2207. A single slug slides along a damp, rocky outcrop overlooking a grey, brown bay where one can still barely make out the grids, structured lines and order of the former metropolis. The landscape that once was western Canada is now empty and desolate. The city is gone. All the cities are gone. [...]