January 2012
1 post
Found Journal Entry- Winter 2009
Ever since Michelle Obama came into the sordid picture (of my love life!) I’ve been doing a lot more baking. I bake to the tune of her heart, which is pumping extra fast to expel all the hot chocolate. All the women who write for allrecipes.com insist that singing or laughing over your baking will make the bread tast like love/home/Gradma/puppies/some of the less sexy First Ladies.
I...
December 2011
1 post
Rose, Lanolin, Rose, Lanolin
A sheep named Rose is shorn, and she shakes off the trauma and returns to the barnyard, where her friend John rubs her skin. His hands come back to him smeared with grease, Rose’s waterproofing grease, her own precious Lanolin.
Her wool-nobody has time to wash and card and spin it in Rosedale these days- is stuffed into a green garbage bag, left in the barn.
Years later, Rose the sheep...
November 2011
2 posts
oldguysetfree asked: Great post Hilde, I remember driving through Consort Alberta many times, and one day the sign at the edge of town "HOME OF KD LANG" had been taken down! Was it her Gay-ity, or her Veg-ity that disenfranchised her from her cow town community who until then had been proud to associate themselves with her notoriety? And I still listen to her music.
What in Tarnation, Edmonton?
Picture this:
kd Lang and Wayne Gretsky, eating avocado rolls on the patio at a very fine little out of-the-way Japanese restaurant in LA, chatting about the glory days of Edmonton. That’s right, 1983-1990. Edmonton owned the world then, and it was thanks to these two.
“this place has the best Saba”
“Meat is murder. Pass the ginger, Great One.”
Cowboys and...
August 2011
3 posts
Goodbye Yukon
This summer at DCMF my friend J——- broke into the basement of a historical building in Dawson. He found a lot of garbage, and a gold rush era shovel, and this previously unpublished poem, signed Robert W. Service! Because of the illegal nature of the find, this blog has the exclusive scoop! Critics will no doubt soon be cranking out papers about Service’s new rhyme-free style,...
Ghomeshi V Lightfoot V Sasquatch
Historical Facts.
May Twenty-Ninth, 2009: Jian Ghomeshi,
Host of popular Canadian Radio Program Q, interviews Gordon Lightfoot,
Canadian songwriting legend. According to the CBC website, One blogger noted that Ghomeshi’s interview with Gordon Lightfoot was “nothing less than seminal,”
Same Day, simultaneously, Sasquatch,
no context needed, intercepts the interview Via...
Late Summer, Nose toward Hibernation
It is late summer but it does not yet smell like fall. No autumnal breezes wafting, but here in Yukon on the sixth of August we can feel autumn, as surely as we can feel spring on a cold cold day in March, still under four feet of snow.
Late summer is not revealing itself so overtly in the forest. No, the forest is instead becoming more regal. More stately. Each tree is proudly luxuriating over...
February 2011
1 post
In Which I Interview Jordan Schmidt.
Interview...
November 2010
3 posts
Carnal Romance Already! METAL!
Finally, at long last, we have my post-show interview from the incredible debut of Whitehorse all-female metal band Carnal Romance.
The show kicked ass. Shock waves continue to reverberate throughout the community. Audience members profess to having been both frightened and aroused. We were back in the coat check room and got the raw, straight goods from three out of four band members.
Thanks...
Carnal Romance after show chat!
What the Kids from Nextdoor Dragged In
Out in the yard a few weeks ago, gathering firewood, I met the neighbour’s kids for the first time. This meeting would be the instigating force in a series of chaotic events, but I could not predict the outcome at the time. I was just thrilled to see that there are children next door, and that they are friendly.
There are three of them. The little girl, Alexa (not her real name) is probably...
October 2010
3 posts
In Which I interview my friend and colleague,...
David Foster Wallace, Depression, and Christmas...
I put a picture of David Foster Wallace up in the house.
Isn’t he beautiful? He was a writer, and I have always liked the idea of putting up pictures of one’s departed heroes, but I’ve never actually done it before. I rolled my mind over the idea for a lot of people- writers, physicists, artists, the odd guru, but the D.F.W. is the first one to actually make it up.
He wrote...
Eulogy for a Fermented Pet
Kombucha, Oh, my Kombucha. I had to throw it in the compost a few days ago. I wept.
Kombucha- miraculous health drink.Born of the fermented culture of a Symbiotic Community between bacteria and yeast, asking nothing to eat but black tea, white sugar, and fresh air, Someone, we don’t know who or when, but mostly likely in Russia or Japan, discovered you floating globularly in a forgotten...
September 2010
2 posts
The End of Pop Culture
Did Anyone Else notice that Newsweek chose to explore masculinity three days after I did?
mmm hmm. Finger On The Pulse!
Listen, I tried to read their article. I even did read it, sort of, but I didn’t understand it. Is it because I’m a poor reader? No! these articles are terrible! They can’t decide what they want to be. Who they want to be. What they want to say. It was so...
Disturbed and Disturbing on Trends in Men's...
Let us take it as a starting that the culture is unhappily insane.
For those unprepared to take this as a proof, Consider the cover of this month’s Sports Afield Magazine.
Sane, Joyful, life-affirming cultures do not produce high-gloss, widely-distributed magazines dedicated to facilitating the hunting of animals who are facing extinction, such as Grizzlies, Buffalos, and Caribous, in...
August 2010
5 posts
Lack of Free Green Grass
This is Stella blu. She is a fellow Tumblr blogger.
Isn’t she lovely? Also very interesting.
She lives in LA, which I am pretty sure is a great place in a lot of ways, for example: carribean food, live music, Gillian Anderson buying her groceries. But there is a lot of concrete, and really nowhere good for dogs to run around, and nowhere nice to smoke weed, all stealth, in the...
Lack of Free Green Grass, by Stella fuckin blu
Two Incidents of August 17
Two Incidents of August 17th which left me wondering if I could have said something different. Something better. It must be noted that The incidents are illustrated with file photos (has anyone seen my camera?). I wrote up these conversations within a few hours of their happening, to try to preserve my clearest memories of what was said.
Incident Number One, in which I horn in on Michael...
A Reading of the Liner Notes from Paliah...
Titles of Romance Novels Currently in Circulation,...
July 2010
5 posts
Teeth and Harvesting and Hunting and Eating
The Forest floor is a mouth, and Fungi are the Teeth.
on Monday I went into the forest, on a ridge overlooking a little lake. One of my companions had her ‘mushroom eyes’ on. She saw mushrooms everywhere she looked; I saw almost none myself.
Into the forest some time, and she said, ‘There’s a giant puffball!’ But i knew at first glance that it was not a puffball. I...
My Letter to the Vancouver Parks Board Regarding...
To the Vancouver Parks Board I am writing to urge you to vote this monday in favor of the proposed plebescite regarding Cetaceans in captivity. Dolphins and Whales have brains which dwarf our own in both size and complexity. In the wild they exhibit culture, intelligence, and sensory capacity which we are nowhere near understanding. The little that we do know about the incredible inner lives of...
Cat Shit Composter- Experimental Mycology Part...
I was originally inspired to start this project by an excellent article in the Yukon News (http://yukon-news.com/business/18380/) about the composting program at the Whitehorse Landfill.
The Landfill aids the breakdown of their organic matter by concocting a local ‘mushroom tea,’ mixing soil and plant from the forest floor with water and molasses to feed and activate the fungal...
Cat Shit Composter- a tale of Experimental...
The Cats: Pony (left) and Gretchen Festerling:
Pony (left) and Gretchen Festerling, born feral on the rough roads of the Similkameen River Valley. These unlikely sisters have been both muse and home to me for five years. They also produce a lot of stinky poop, which has gone to the landfill all mixed up with toxic perfumed clay products inside plastic bags for four of those years. Are they not...
June 2010
3 posts
The Erotic Anguish of Nancy Drew
Part Three:...
Part Two- The Origins of Ned Nickerson
One imagines what Nancy Drew does to her boyfriend Ned Nickerson when she gets him alone. But first I have to ask you: have you ever met a real person last name of Nickerson? No, me neither. He is like Barbie’s companion Ken Doll – last name of “Doll,” for a guy with muscles like that? I don’t buy it. Ned is clearly some kind of literary illusion. He is always there when Nancy needs...
A Three Part Mini-Series: The Erotic Anguish of...
May 2010
5 posts
From What’s Up Yukon, Whitehorse’s...
Pony and The Wolf
A Love Story spanning Oceans....
Suicide Millionaire Sweater
I wanted to tell you about the time I found this boss immaculate Cowichan sweater hanging in the attic at my In-law’s house.
It was just hanging there, all dusty, surrounded mostly by clothes and saddles and sports equipment that no longer fit my husband (John) and his sisters, and old furniture. The sweater, which was either brand new or fastidiously maintained, was out of place. And I...
The White Queen
Three nights ago I dreamed that everyone was insisting that I was the White Queen.
The White Queen
The White Queen.
The White Queen.
Everyone knew this was true. It was time for me to take my role as The White Queen. I did not feel comfortable about this. Why was I the one and only The White Queen? It seemed racist. I did not feel like I had the right to be a Queen. I did not know how...
Sports Afield
They say one in three news stories is broken by a blogger. Well that’s me, I’m a blogger, and here’s my first news break:
SPORTS AFIELD MAGAZINE CALLS AFRICA THE DARK CONTINENT
Magazine also advocates hunting Buffalo and Elephants!
Maybe I don’t have a clear enough idea of what a news break is. Let me try again
SPORTS AFIELD MAGAZINE I HATE TO BREAK IT TO YOU: THIS...
April 2010
3 posts
My Letter to Tom Allen, CBC radio DJ
Subject: Tom Allen I hope you get this email.
I’m guessing at this email address. I just wanted to tell you I really love your show. CBC has made it as difficult as possible for me to reach you- not to try to make you paranoid, they’re like that with everybody. Company policy. Unless I want to follow you on Twitter, which I don’t. I just don’t like to do much reading...
Marie Antoinette
I felt like Marie Antoinette today in the garden. The radio played Chopin while birds and I picked at the beds. One of these birds was dragged in by the cat yesterday. It was so cute in her mouth. I captured the cat, threw her in the bedroom, and set the bird free. She was a lucky one. John and I are becoming very experienced in knowing when to rescue, and when to put out of misery, in the bird...
Back To The Future
This film has everything: Fashion, politics, break-through technology, romance, a skateboard montage, pearls of archetypal wisdom and an extended length single shot opening featuring an impressive clock collection.