Books I've actually finished lately: 117

Without my shadow I don't know how the other half feels.

- Nick Cave

(Jury's still out on the audio sample. Cave is reading it himself...)

Crap Canadian Poetry

Asked, the other night, for a hit-list of contemporary Canadian writers, Michael Ondaatje struggled for several minutes before coming up with... ONE novelist.

For why, please see the Oxford Cheese Ode by James McIntyre.

[NB the Ode apparently comes in at #577. Out of 500.]