carbunkles

palm tree

2011-12-21T08:02:00.000-08:00

brief intermission of captain america screaming

2011-10-14T15:18:00.000-07:00

Stick woman

2011-07-09T10:45:00.001-07:00

Dark Eyes

2011-06-22T22:44:00.001-07:00

train going by

2011-06-22T18:11:00.001-07:00

plaid

2011-06-21T11:17:00.000-07:00

new money

2011-06-21T10:39:00.001-07:00

frames

2011-06-19T11:01:00.000-07:00

Think disaster

2011-06-18T11:58:00.001-07:00

Leech

2011-06-04T23:31:00.001-07:00

MoreASS Jeans

2011-05-15T11:09:00.001-07:00

taking a reading

2011-05-07T11:19:00.001-07:00

Conjunktavitus

2011-04-30T15:18:00.000-07:00

I've got pinkeye

no loitering

2011-04-16T19:14:00.000-07:00

outside

2011-03-28T11:24:00.001-07:00

norse men

2011-03-26T22:58:00.001-07:00

my potato is empty

2011-03-24T23:14:00.000-07:00

road movie

2011-03-18T18:40:00.000-07:00

cap gun roll

2011-01-16T02:36:00.001-08:00

green bindle

2011-01-09T02:09:00.000-08:00

shadow

2010-11-04T23:15:00.001-07:00

listening skills

2010-08-27T20:35:00.001-07:00

forget

2010-08-27T20:32:00.000-07:00

fiddling

2010-08-04T16:20:00.001-07:00

man with guitar

2010-07-26T09:00:00.000-07:00

WERNER HERZOG

2010-07-11T21:21:00.001-07:00

Leon Redbone and birds

2010-07-11T21:19:00.000-07:00

PEANUT ALERT -this is a peanut

2010-07-08T12:46:00.000-07:00

G20 your hair smells terrific

2010-07-08T12:35:00.000-07:00

SMOG rolling

2010-07-08T12:30:00.000-07:00

genital warfare

2010-07-08T12:05:00.001-07:00

3 stars for no pants

2010-07-08T11:57:00.000-07:00

grindstone

2010-06-21T08:06:00.001-07:00

man of the match

2010-06-21T07:56:00.000-07:00

offer

2010-06-01T22:38:00.001-07:00

sample

2010-06-01T22:10:00.001-07:00

floater

2010-05-30T21:21:00.001-07:00

red city

2010-05-30T11:02:00.001-07:00

floating head2

2010-05-30T11:00:00.000-07:00

floating head

2010-05-30T10:36:00.001-07:00

raggedy

2010-05-28T14:51:00.001-07:00

storm's a brewin

2010-05-07T12:40:00.000-07:00

pause for reflection.. gently go mad

2010-04-24T23:34:00.000-07:00

head

2010-04-24T12:30:00.000-07:00

and again

2010-04-18T10:39:00.001-07:00

CLOWN I WANT TO BE LIKE YOU
THE ANTI-ROBOT

hill before the fool was on it

2010-04-16T17:56:00.001-07:00

yer yella

2010-04-16T10:57:00.000-07:00

passport photo

2010-04-15T16:41:00.000-07:00

I saw a double that I thought was my stain

2010-04-14T20:08:00.000-07:00

I've got crotch crickets and I'm tired of fighting crime

2010-04-07T16:26:00.000-07:00

FARM

2010-04-06T11:46:00.001-07:00

I once worked as a Mini Go bear handing out tubes of golden gickum

2010-04-06T10:05:00.000-07:00

TRESTLE GALLERY DEMOLISHED DUE TO CONTROVERSIAL ART SHOW

2010-02-13T14:06:00.000-08:00

Its true, the Trestle Gallery at the corner of Dufferin and Queen has been uncerimoniously trounced due to Jack Squarebox's controversial show
INFANTS fisting FARM ANIMALS
but don't despair people
there will more ditches to fill with filth.

painters 11

2009-11-07T21:58:00.000-08:00

There's a free screening at the AGO cinema Jackman Hall
317 Dundas Street west
Wednesday November the 11th
at 8pm
Animation inspired by the Painters 11
Toronto's faction of Abstract Expressionists

One that'll last

2009-11-07T20:44:00.000-08:00

Bob was in Kitchener tonight.
Long live Bob

Watched No Direction Home again
In it he's young but already tired and says
'I think I'm gonna get me a NEW Bob Dylan next week.. one that'll last '

peekaboo

2009-08-06T14:38:00.001-07:00

flag

2009-07-25T23:29:00.001-07:00

cover for new sketchbook

2009-07-23T21:26:00.000-07:00

BUTCH

2009-07-18T00:46:00.000-07:00

installing the rainbow

2009-07-16T15:35:00.001-07:00

St Elmo on fire

2008-12-29T09:28:00.000-08:00

baby toast

2008-10-27T23:16:00.001-07:00

@ the office

2008-10-19T10:33:00.000-07:00

marks

2008-09-29T08:45:00.001-07:00

a show of heads

2008-09-11T11:23:00.001-07:00

Butch

2008-09-03T09:47:00.000-07:00

hobo squirrel on road

2008-08-15T01:02:00.000-07:00

the torment

2008-07-14T11:44:00.001-07:00

figment II electric boogaloo

2008-07-11T15:45:00.000-07:00

figment

2008-07-03T19:31:00.001-07:00

Getting ready for GITMO

2008-05-07T12:39:00.000-07:00

I don't know about you but
I'm getting ready for Gitmo
I'm cutting fat out of my diet
I'm torturing myself with American Idol
I'm watching models disect beautiful corpses to hip music
I'm obeying whatever needs to be obeyed
I'm lining up at the bank
I'm buying and selling whatever stocks
my financial advisor advises
I'm reading comic books
I'm watching comic book movies
I'm watching sports to avoid watching the news
I'm taking a strange comfort when the newscasters snigger in between
reporting atrocities
I'm taking cruel satisfaction in watching celebrities
being spied upon
I'm wearing orange
I'm talking to square inanimate orange boxes in the back yard
I'm doing it all
I'm getting ready for Gitmo.

THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH

2008-04-28T11:50:00.000-07:00

I like this title.
Its a James Bond film
I think.
I've never seen it.
I think its a title Ian Fleming never devised.
They are running on empty
with that franchise.
I've been waiting for a James Bond with erectile disfunction and
who just couldn't
give a shit
if the world ends.

I've been waiting on this
for the longest.
With this title I'd like to think
its finally happened
but I suspect not.
One can dream though.
The world is not enough.
Let me ruminate on that.

hanging in

2008-02-24T15:11:00.001-08:00

floating disembodied hug from limbless torso in GAP window display

2008-02-10T12:01:00.000-08:00

web ready

2008-01-14T20:50:00.001-08:00

The poet was so confused
he just spewed gibberish
endlessly
figuring one day
a computer
would figure it all out
and live off
the proceeds

decisions

2007-12-13T17:11:00.000-08:00

I've decided to be Deciduous
Evergreen just sounds too positive

Once a year
I'll lose myself

Why not ?
I'll shed.
I'll leave behind a mitten on a bus

The noble frontier

2007-11-13T12:54:00.000-08:00

More than anything
the sky becomes her
the ground becomes something
she's attached to
you imagine her
the way you do
space

that's her picture on the wall

2007-08-27T16:59:00.000-07:00

On lake tittikaka

2007-08-27T09:08:00.000-07:00

On lake tittikaka
there was an onion alert
water grew festive
fish spilled their guts
and were OK with being
fertilizer
The clouds formed a sermon
The clouds farted

The power lines just hummed and hawed
Cameleons had learned helplessness
and weren't changing for nothing

Not for nothing

On lake tittikaka
you wanted to lick everything
but no one washed their hands

Little kids bought nipples from ice cream vendors
and the pre-programmed song was a death rattle
as it passed

On lake tittikaka
there were titmouses
mice
meadow
meadow mice
There was free parking
but you had to be amphibious
just to get there

On lake tittikaka
you became tired just looking at it
you thought of sewers and intestines by extension
and you saw no end to it
you wanted to lie down
but hated to sun bathe
and spooning was just out of the question

Gwen John

2007-08-15T12:42:00.001-07:00

Tor lives

2007-08-15T12:40:00.000-07:00

exposure

2007-08-05T22:17:00.000-07:00

flower power

2007-03-13T11:32:00.000-07:00

workshop?

2007-02-27T18:34:00.001-08:00

huh?

2007-02-27T18:28:00.000-08:00

wonder

2007-02-27T15:08:00.000-08:00

good times

2007-02-27T14:43:00.000-08:00

words from mr lynch

2007-02-27T12:33:00.000-08:00

Keep at it

It's such a tricky business. You want to do your art, but you've got to live. So you've got to have a job, and then sometimes you're too tired to do your art.
But if you love what you're doing, you're going to keep doing it anyway.
I've been very lucky. Along the way , there are people who help us.
I've had plenty of those people in my life who've helped me go to the next step. And you get that help because you've done something, so you have to keep doing it.
So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say:
Try to get a job that gives you some time: get your sleep and a little bit of food: and work as much as you can. There's so much enjoyment in doing what you love. Maybe this will open doors and you'll find a way to do what you love. I hope you do.

Having a set up

Some mornings, in a perfect world, you might wake up, have a coffee, finish meditation and say OK today I'm going into the shop to work on a lamp
This idea comes to you, you can see it, but to accomplish it you need what I call a 'set up'
For example you may need a working shop or a working painting studio. You may need a working music studio. Or a computer room where you can write something. It's crucial to have a setup, so that at any given moment, when you get an idea, you have the place and the tools to make it happen.
If you don't have a setup, there are many times when you get the inspiration, the idea, but you have no tools, no place to put it together. And the idea just sits there and festers. Over time it will go away. You didn't fulfill it - and that's just heartache.

taken from
'Catching the Big Fish'
by David Lynch

urinal

2007-02-19T19:45:00.000-08:00

MR BLIGHT

2007-02-19T19:35:00.000-08:00

My mother used to visit a man named Mr Blight and I came along with her.
He was a gardener and he had a gun ready for squirrels.
He was old.
I was very young.
I lived in a place called two mountains then.
All that I remember about him was his name, his love of plants and hatred of squirrels.
For some reason I have him dressed in black and white.
I wear some sort of blue polyester shirt with a worm on it and all around us its green.

ready

2007-02-19T19:30:00.000-08:00

I'm dead

2007-02-19T19:25:00.000-08:00

I'm a dog
I'm not playing dead
I am dead

I'm James and the Giant Peach Pit
t.s eliot selling time shares

I'm dead

carbunkles of wonder

2007-02-19T19:21:00.000-08:00

bread
chucked on the rooves of schools