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And it’s sunny and it’s dusty and the trees won’t have leaves until it rains. Traffic flows like the last drawn out task before the weekend. Avoid, tinker, avoid.
Broken glass lies in bp nichol’s concrete letters. At a nearby loading bay, a man dips his moustache into his coffee. None of this is in the [...]

Everybody knows Jesus helped win the 2004 U.S. election for Bush. Last November, I had no idea—like most of my Daily Show watching demographic—how conflated church and state really is in the States. I wanted to know more. As the first anthropologists were intrigued by economic systems or matrilineal kinship, I was curious about these [...]

Years ago, maybe five, I set myself up for a productive failure. I started building my web-based literary empire. The venture taught me all I know now about programming for the web, about PHP, MySQL and JavaScript. I think I finished the empire two years ago, the code at least. I had spent so much [...]

I was nearly killed last Thursday. It’s happened before and it will probably happen again. But this time, I decided to get the police involved.
Despite being on a bike decked out in flashing lights and reflectors, I was nearly hit by a car last week. The driver made a left in front of me. I [...]

My ESL students are just average Canadians when it comes to the US election. The students have a knee-jerk support for Kerry even if they have never heard of him.
I started my conversation class with the question, “Who do you think will win the election today?” My students looked at me as if I was [...]

They’ve been busy.
Elif published in the August and September issues of Ballet–Dance Magazine. Her August piece is on dance in academia and September’s focuses on the Çati Dance Studio in Istanbul. Elif also had an article in Time Out Istanbul, but there doesn’t seem to be an on-line version of it.
Sunjay continues to get published [...]

Weeks of toiling has lead to what you see here: the 2004 Itchy Feet site re-design.
I can hear the loyal readers scratching their collective head and muttering, “Re-design? It doesn’t really look that different.” Let me explain.
I built this site over two years ago. At the time, I relied on all that I had learned [...]

Just when we thought the contest was over, Warren comes up with his entry. We’re giving him the Palm d’Or for Audacity. Here is his entry proving we are, in fact, really big in Cieszyn.

It was a close race. In the interest of fairness, first place is tied between Jill (Martha’s mom) and Caitlin. According to my inbox, Jill’s image got to me first, but Caitlin’s was actually sent twenty-six seconds earlier. Caitlin has her company’s server to blame for the delay and for costing her the clear win. [...]

There’s this web site that, every thirty seconds, serves up a shot of the main square of our town. As I’m writing this, it’s close to midnight and there’s not a heck of a lot to see. In the daytime, however, this square is positively bustling. It’s this little web-cam that is going the be [...]