Gabrielle had remained standing, framed by the half-open screen door of the porch. She hadn’t invited me into the house. I was at the bottom of the porch steps. It was in this position that our nightmarish conversation had taken place.
Hear the song “All Star Wrestling” by Sister DJ’s Radio Band. Listen for the names of some of your favourite extreme wrestlers: Haystack Calhoun, William Muldoon, the Fabulous Moolah, Kenji Shibuya, Gene Kiniski, Hardboiled Haggerty, Bill Dromo, and Dump Matsumoto.
Thanks for the email about the writing workshop and other things. Pierre Berton’s name is spelled wrong in the email. Just felt compelled to point that out since he’s a Canadian institution and everything.
My friend Eric moved to Los Angeles five years ago to become a rock star, only to learn that drummers and bass players in L.A. are unreliable, that nobody in L.A. goes to see live music and that the chicks in L.A. are all crazy. Once he got to wait at a stoplight behind Patricia Arquette, once Britney Spears came into the gym where he worked and one time a bouncer let him into a club ahead of Fabio, and none of these things made him famous.
When Malcolm Lowry’s shack on the beach at Dollarton, B.C., burned to the ground in 1944, he and his wife Marjorie were able to save the manuscript of only one of the novels that he was working on at the time. A few months later the same manuscript had to be rescued again when the house that friends found for them in Oakville, Ontario, also burned to the ground.
One day in Vancouver in the late seventies, Pierre Berton and John Diefenbaker appeared at the same time in the book department at Eaton’s department store to sign copies of their new books, which had just been released by rival publishers.
Wreford & Associates has been dormant for several quarters, so this poll is prepared for Geist by Ross Rosebery Mediatech, which continues to operate in non-dormant mode. Depositions were taken randomly at a major Canadian intersection.
