Peter Barrett

Made a contribution just now to Filipino BC & The Filipino Centre. If you're moved to do likewise in solidarity with the Filipino community in the wake of last night's mass murder, donations can be received at the following link:

Jac Jemc's The Grip of It.

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over. A novel by Anne de Marcken. A New Directions Paperbook Original, 2024.

Stunned into silence after reading this profoundly original and haunting prose poem of a novel.

My fave Sabbath album. My earliest memory of Sabbath is being terrified and transfixed listening to the crackling vinyl playing 'Hand of Doom' from 'Paranoid' one September afternoon in Grade 7, high on hash oil at JB's dimly-lit apartment. Thanks, John Darnielle. @themountaingoats.bsky.social

"Free to Be...You and Me" Did Not Prepare Me for this Moment A disillusioned Gen X-er's lament. PLUS: What music, literature, or art informed your values, and view of the world? A Friday Open Thread...

"I might never be able to let go of Free to Be...You and Me, even though the world has never quite lived up to its view, least of all now.” What cultural touchstones influenced your view of the world? An Oldster Friday Open Thread.

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The Secret Pattern ‘Filtered only through headlines, China had become a political entity more than a physical place where I had grown up, where half of my family still lived.’

A very special essay out with @grantamag.bsky.social. It’s about worship, China, patterns, food deliveries, burials, divinations, gorges, moths, padded bras, and silk worms. To see how it all connects, please give this a read — and share if you enjoyed it 🙏
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Thank you so much for your thoughtful words. All the support has been very comforting for us. At first, I just couldn't bring myself to comment about our grief but all the heart-felt condolences has made all the difference. Take good care as well. Peace.

❤️

Molly our 20-yr old cat sitting in the sun.

Molly our cat climbing the arbutus tree and standing up on the branch.

Molly our cat standing on the kitchen counter and reaching into the cupboard, looking for ingredients.

We are heart-broken to have had to say goodbye to our love, Molly. She had many nicknames: Mollywog, Lil' Bruiser, Lil' Owl. She has gone to be with the love of her life, Boo, who moved on some years ago. Rest in peace, Molly. We miss you so much and love you forever.

I've read three so far and loved them all.

" The air has all at once become edible. Only those who have breathed it can understand the merit of this term. The lungs become an instrument of cognition."

Ennemonde by Jean Giono.

Translated from the French by Bill Johnston.

Archipelago Books.

Charlie with stick at the beach.

If you see this and you're in the mood, quote post with a beach picture in your gallery.

Next Wednesday join some amazing writers, publishers, and translators to celebrate the Republic of Consciousness Prize and this year's longlist. On Zoom. Link here: us02web.zoom.us/j/8636426865...

Antonin Artaud: Blows and Bombs by Stephen Barber.

Charlie at the beach. Stone erosion.

Charlie Barker at the beach.

American Abductions - a novel by Mauro Javier Cárdenas. Dalkey Archive Press.

Caesaria: a novel by Hanna Nordenhök, translated by Saskia Vogel.

Visceral and haunting.

Dog running in fresh fallen snow.

Charlie in the snow.

Snow on the Salish sea.

"Is it too late for me to return to university to do paleoanthropology, I wondered to John yesterday. And he said, It depends on how serious you are about doing it."

Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber.

Glorious rant.

Assembling stone material for the David Lynch Memorial Lettuce and Herb Garden. #KeepitInteresting

The Seville Theatre on St. Catherine Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Interior of the Seville Theatre, Montreal.

Interior of the Seville Theatre, Montreal

Eraserhead (1977) movie poster

One evening in late June 1984, I sat alone inside the Seville Theatre on St. Catherine Street in downtown Montreal and watched my first David Lynch film: Eraserhead (1977).

Rest in peace.

Sunset on the Salish Sea. Galiano Island.

(S)he Eats Planets: On 'Mandy,' Grief, and Mandy | Bright Wall/Dark Room 'Mandy' is a visionary catalogue of the ways in which we attempt to survive, embrace, or succumb to the pain of living with death, and what happens when we lose the one thing that holds our world toge...

Happy Nicolas Cage Day.

For @bwdr.bsky.social:

www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/01/29/s...

The Berlin Wall - A Novel - David Leo Rice.

First read of 2025.