social urban art play etc etc

I'm having one of those convergence moments- you know, when everything you read, see, talk about, dream connects in some serendipitous way? what's truly exciting about this is that it means that my brain has been freed up to play a bit. it was rusty at first, but i'm warming up, baby! and god, it feels good.

that's not to say i've got any grand announcements to make. just excited pointing gestures. like reading the interview on avant gaming iowa review web's latest issue on "space and place in new media writing,"just before picking up darren o' donnell's (2 r's, 2 n's, 2 l's) social acupuncture (1 c, 1 p), and then going out and watching beloved ex-rheo dave clark extend his improvised drum solo into and onto thesocial space of the audience. need to throw in lisa robertson's value village essay into the mix, except I don't have it. wasn't able to get one at the launch, for reasons to tedious to explain here, and have struck out at 2 bookstores now. and coach house seems to have abandoned? restricted? their tip the author policy. no potlatch for you!

also finding a lot to think about in darren's book re: the politics of discomfort. i've been circling around the pedagogy of discomfort for a while now, and after skooled, i've got a fresh perspective on it. jury's still out, though.

saw a lot of very pretty books yesterday at art metropole. recorded a lot of "ooh and ahhh" sounds emanating from our excited selves. took home postcard reproductions of a work by heidi neilson, which was conceptually like this, but looks more like this, and reminds me of this, which I heard about from him.