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Artists and personages discussed: Marcel Proust, Shawn Micallef, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Elliot Smith, Jack Dylan, Fucked Up, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Photo courtesy of jackdylan.com 1. We are Introduced to The Flaneur: The word caught my eye for the first time a few months ago. There was a write up on BlogTO featuring Shawn Micallef, about a book he'd just published with Coach House Books called Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto. In the write up, Micallef is referred to as Toronto's most prominent flaneur. Micallef is, most notably, a senior editor at Spacing Magazine. This new book of his is a sleek map ...Read More

The Flaneur Renaissance 101

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A few days ago I began to pack all my possessions away into boxes. In about a week's time I'll be loading those boxes into a rented van and driving them up to Montréal where I shall be residing for at least the next twelve months. Photo Courtesy of Gadgetytech.com It is a queer thing, a room stripped bare. It is almost as if an essential layer of my very identity has been removed. It never ceases to amaze me, the extent to which what we own defines who we are, at least within the cultural mileux into which I was born ...Read More

A Meditation on E-Readers, the Perilous Condition Known as Compulsive Book Buying Disorder, and Other Quandaries