This is a little minor keyed announcement of the no-fanfare, low-rent, low-overhead, lowball, lowdown ramshackle reconnoiter of the state of affairs/state of siege/state of grace that prevails. To wit: a 'don't call it a tour' words and music tour of the B.C. coast. With great care and mindful of the prevailing psychic and public...

Reading and living: For both you need a strategy to contend with the mechanics. There's the body, and there's the book. To find out what happens, you have to turn the page. To keep things moving, you leave things behind. You turn the page, knowing that as you do so that page goes unclear, and...