• Sentence really and seriously uttered at dinner this weekend: “Oh, X.  He’s very active within the poutine community, isn’t he?”  (Which set me off into a flight of fancy about what, exactly, the poutine community does by way of activism and consciousness-raising, which I’m sure pale in comparison to their actual activities.)
• I was also further enlightened about the significance of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s sweater.  Announcing “where is your platform, Mr. Harper?  Where is it?  UNDER YOUR SWEATER?” never grows old.
• I recently sent out a few cards featuring the art of Josephine Wall, which I find truly astonishing in its, er, depth of symbolism and imagination.  I think the pictures are awesome in all of their confused yet florid imagery, and I hope that most recipients are in on the joke.  But!  A search at Amazon reveals that there is also a book, a calendar (also available with puzzle), a great many posters, a t-shirt, some ceramic wall tiles, and even a globe–er, I mean “sphere art.”  Where does a joke turn into an obsession?  I worry sometimes.
• Finally, the Jejune household is struggling with undiagnosable network problems–it may be our network cards, it may be our wireless router, but connectivity is frustratingly intermittent.  (The internet doesn’t cut off completely, but slooowly chokes and gives us an inconsistent array of error messages.)  As a result, I didn’t notice some weird site problems that sprung up over the weekend–comments and permalinks, among other things, were unreachable.  So, if the operation of the site seems odd, don’t hesitate to drop me a line; I might be entirely oblivious.  If the contents of the site seem odd, you can email me as well, but that’s probably more the fault of My Craft than it is of WordPress.

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