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Comment on The Plastic Factory by Ron Kolm — review by Mark McCawley by Mike Lindgren

Mike Lindgren — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:33:26 +0000

Mr. McCawley does an excellent job of pointing up the political and social implications of Kolm's dystopian vision… I would add that as a piece of writing The Plastic Factory has an urgency, a sardonic, brittle desperation, that marks it as a minor masterpiece of experimental writing. "A must-read"!

Comment on Purple Manta Ray: Death of a Playboy by bart plantenga by Ken

Ken — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:21:55 +0000

I enjoy the energy, humour, original imagery (e.g. breasts like plump chickadees), cultural details and tone of voice, also the punning title of your “memoir.”

Comment on Marco Rea: Pop Surrealist Provocateur — in conversation with Mark McCawley by Adam Cramb

Adam Cramb — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:12:32 +0000

Nice….darkly comfortable…:)

Comment on Purple Manta Ray: Death of a Playboy by bart plantenga by bartplantenga

bartplantenga — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:48:39 +0000

thanks t. i look forward to reading yr memoir material cuz it is from both a familiar & strange place. looked at from a certain perspective, a seemingly normal life can be fairly fantastic just like when you zoom in on say bacteria or human skin or a cockroach with a microscope – it opens up a new universe. i truly believe there is as much treasure in the everyday as in the heightened extreme sport vacation. i love abandoned industrial parks, huge empty shopping plaza parking lots, city districts where there is seemingly nothing going on on a sunday… best, b

Comment on Purple Manta Ray: Death of a Playboy by bart plantenga by edmonchuck

edmonchuck — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:32:05 +0000

Great piece Bart. Took me write back to mid-’70s Westlock , Alta, where we spent a couple of years before moving back to Uranium City. The banana bikes (the Indian kids – who literally did live on the wrong side of the tracks – used to chop them up so they had six foot extensions on the front), the model cars, the cool guy with the cool car down the street (though no one, to my knowledge, blew their head off in our little town). And Playboy. How curious to think back to a time when porn (such as it was) was intertwined with literature, taste in clothes, liquor, clothes. What a different world we live in! Anyway, thanks for taking me back, I’ll have to post my own reminisces sometime soon.

Comment on Excerpt from ‘Uranium City Return’: Edmonton by Tim Beckett by bartplantenga

bartplantenga — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:20:07 +0000

tim, wonderful descriptions of mixed-emotion memories. it does seem desolate and i’m reminded somehow of kerouac’s descriptions of denver late 40s early 50s. i have experienced these same bittersweet memories of obliteration and ephemeralness. when i first started communicating with mark m. i told him i had a totally different picture of edmonton [maybe because i thot canada did things better] and it now seems like so many of the places i hitched thru and passed thru in the 18970s-80s as a post-teen wanderer in the belly of the US falling apart. ps, i thot you were british. i don’t know why… maybe because you lived/worked in london.

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Comment on Urban Graffiti Mix #6 by urbgraffiti

urbgraffiti — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:13:27 +0000

Yes, that is OUR Carl Watson, Tim.

Comment on Urban Graffiti Mix #6 by Tim Beckett

Tim Beckett — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:30:32 +0000

Is that OUR Carl Watson I hear reading Eddy Paris? A classic . . .

Comment on Will the Real Matthew Firth Step Forward, Please? by xejet

xejet — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:50:20 +0000

Mark,

Couldn’t agree with you more. Thanks for the insights.

-BrianK