February 2012
8 posts
Go get flu shots! The flu is very, very terrible and I spent all morning wondering if Dignitas would take me now.
I need friends with hardier immune systems who won’t infect me with their diseases. Thanks a lot, jerks.
I embraced my YMCA membership too enthusiastically and now I can’t walk.
A woman’s body was found rolled up in a carpet in the Junction. The police say she was not murdered, which only makes it more mysterious and maybe even more terrible.
I went to yoga in what I thought where opaque tights but I was mistaken.
January 2012
37 posts
Unless you want to talk about cats or horses I’m useless to you right now.
Commodify Your Dissent was a really significant book for me in college. You can read the first chapter here. So was Laura Kipnis’s Ecstasy Unlimited: On Sex, Capital, Gender and Aesthetics.
Criticisms of individual consumer activism, of consumption standing in for political agitation, consumption as privatization of political action and the risks of social justice mediated through...
All of Mike Ladan’s rescued sled dogs that I posted about here have had vet checks and are receiving care.
Minou is fine and on some sort of narcotic that is like cat MDMA and she is soooooooooo happy. She has awesome IV lines shaved in her legs, like she’s a cat Vanilla Ice.
This tiny cat is getting surgery right now. I’m scared!
Toronto seeks ‘voluntary contributions’ from taxpayers (CBC)
I’ve never heard of this before. The city is not a charity, these services should not be optional, voluntary donations should not replace mandatory taxation, and we should not depend on chance altruism for funding. Just raise our taxes, don’t be scared.
But most of Ford’s cuts were rejected. Very exciting!
Once I had a show in Easthampton and Katharine Tillman came and she wrote the catalogue introduction and borrowed my sweater and after years and years of writing we slept right next to each other like real people.
Minou had x-rays done this morning and needs surgery! Poor monkey.
Once we took a train to Whistler that ran along the edges of cliffs and beside waterfalls and they served mimosas and scones with clotted cream but my dad didn’t know what a mimosa was because why the fuck would you need to drink anything but alcohol, what would be the point of that?
Once we went to Key West and it was full of lizards and drag queens and Ernest Hemingway’s cats.
On Thursday I was working on some Dawson’s Creek episode where Joey makes out with her professor and he cuts off their relationship by telling her about Sentimental Education. He says, “Flaubert believed that anticipation was the purest form of pleasure… and the most reliable. And that while the things that actually happen to you would invariable disappoint, the things that...
Mike Ladan rescues sled dogs in Alaska and he seems like both a kind, generous person and a character, which are of course the best people of all. He’s had some bad financial times like a lot of people now and he needs help caring for his dogs. You can read a story about him here:
Sled Dogs in Need of Help: Big Lake rescuer hits financial difficulties
You can make donations through the...
Life With Dogs
This is the only website I will be visiting from now on.
At Splendido they have very delicious desserts and tiny stools beside each chair for women to put their handbags and if you would like to go to dinner in a ball gown and not feel entirely out of place it would be a good place to do that.
My grandparents have died, my former partner is having babies, fake Hirst diamond skulls are being sold at surf shops.
The Autumn of Joan Didion Caitlin Flanagan (The Atlantic, 2012)
One of the things that makes me feel most like a grown up is being offered fancy coffees at car dealerships.The man who sold me my car wore green alligator shoes the size of rowboats.
When we first moved to America we had no furniture because it was all being shipped in a container across the ocean and it took months and months and months and we lived in a furnished condo in Framingham, MA with...
Popular sexual health program geared to immigrant women in jeopardy (Globe and Mail)
Hospice care out of reach for dying teen (Toronto Star)
How Toronto lost its groove (Walrus)
Unseen city: Roy Thomson Hall (Torontoist) - this is where the TSO plays. A lot of people complain about the sound and it is true that it is not ideal, but I love being there.
Jean Sibelius - Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 played by Jascha Heifetz
Last night was great, dancing in a tiny room full of people in Kensington, so many people from the island, limbs like water, lying like sardines in a bed with sheepskin listening to Zeesy tell story after story and getting in a cab at sunrise. Now I need to stay happy. It’s January and then February, the worst months of all. Maybe I should join the gym with the funniest name - HPV Fitness,...
Writing Frightening Verse to a Bucktoothed Girl:... →
lettyt:
OK, so you are probably tired of hearing about this, but, it’s getting real: My book, One Perfect Bird, is now out for purchase from Sundress Publications!
Official Press Release Ahoy!
One Perfect Bird
A Collection of Poems by Letitia Trent
Knoxville, TN— Sundress Publications…
I’m bringing two bottles of champagne and a letter opener made of an endangered Hawaiian tree (that had already died) to Yuula’s house, where she lives in the best attic. Someone is bringing presents. And it’s warm enough that maybe I’ll even walk home at 7am. So that’s a good start. Goodbye, year.
December 2011
37 posts
I’m planning a field trip to a city I might want to move to. It wouldn’t be for a while because I am not ready to leave Toronto and I am not ready to sell my house and I think I will need at least two more years here until I’ll feel okay about it, but the winters are so awful and there are so many more beautiful places. But it is in the US and it would be hard to live somewhere...
On the north shore I saw a whale jumping and blowing water.
I had my make up done for the wedding and looked like a local correspondent from Benkelman, Nebraska.
A sun falling into the ocean, a giant hat for me, four cameras to watch my sister marry on the balcony over the beach.