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K2 - she was a cat

TW: pet death K2 watching Aronofsky flicks It was new year’s eve 2009, when I was visiting a friend’s home with my ex when I first met a feisty little tabby cat. Her name was K2, named because she the second tabby in her owner’s home. My ex and I were sitting on the couch when this tiny girl with big ears started climbing my ex’s leg and attacking his knee, falling over dramatically in the…

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THE COMMUTE - ART EXHIBIT RECEPTION Feb 2, 2023 6pm 30 Merchants Wharf

Sample of some of Alexandria’s artwork. There will be a small reception for the exhibit Feb 2, 2023 at 6pm at Bayside Gallery. A launch of some digital artwork will be linked that day and more links available then.A collaborative free art exhibit at Bayside Gallery (30 Merchants’ Wharf, Sherbourne & Queens Quay E). Art by Alexandria McDonough and her mother, Jacqueline Valencia, based on their…

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My story "The Crane" will be in Devouring Tomorrow Anthology (Dundurn Press)

It’s official!

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New things: 2024

My short story “The Crane,” has been selected for the anthology Devouring Tomorrow, edited by A.G. Pasquella and Jeff Dupuis, to be published in 2025 by Dundurn Press A collaborative essay with my daughter, Alexandria McDonough, titled, “Listening,” (2023) has been selected for a disability anthology by Coach House Books (upcoming title and publishing date TBA). And the big thing this coming…

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My first bluray commentary for Josephine Massarella's collected works

from Stephen Broomer:“For the past year, I’ve been working on digital restorations of Josephine Massarella’s films. Many of you in the experimental film community might have known Josie for two remarkable films she made in the last five years of her life: Light Study (2013) and 165708 (2017), both of which gained a good deal of festival play; or you might have simply known her as one of the most…

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New writing things.

It’s been a while since I’ve written in here since much of promotion is done through social media as opposed to blogs these days. However, since new adventures are afoot, I thought I’d pop in and relate a few things.Cook Run Write is my new food blog: https://cookrunwrite.ca/ Something I started over the pandemic and actually covid this year, has been trying out new foods from the comfort of my…

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Seeing You - film poem

Seeing You – film poem

Was supposed to be reading at the Oculus Pavilion for the See You Again Arts Festival, but it was postponed for tonight and I’m working. BUT I made a hybrid film poetry reading that they’re currently screening over there. https://vimeo.com/620227432

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On space and design

Making myself small, taking up a space, entering a space, creating space, et cetera, my obsession with space continues. When I go for a run, there is an expanse of space I will absorb from point A to B. I have to look where I’m going and what’s around me. I have to check my watch for speed or what time I have to be home. I look up at the sky and curious sights in my path. The sunset or sunrise…

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Sakara (a science fiction)

I’ve been working on a science fiction book set in Toronto somewhere in the future. I decided today to post up part of a draft of chapter one. You can find it below or over at wattpad: http://www.wattpad.com/13832914-sakara-part-of-chapter-one Sakara – (part of Chapter One draft) A tall bearded man stood across the street from the Parkdale home. He read the park sign down the road for the twelfth…

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On Mitch Albom's piece about American Dirt

On Mitch Albom’s piece about American Dirt

I just came in from a run and I don’t know if I have the energy for this. However, in the age of the internet, where everyone has a platform to say what they want, and when the anger is there and you need the outlet, you yell it out into the ether. Then, you let the pieces fall where they may.

I have this blog.

The first piece you should read on the latest cultural appropriation controversy…

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Hey ya

2019 was busy with getting some things in order and there were plenty of changes.

April: Artscapehad a call out for 80 units for low-income people who are artists became available in the city. A friend, Marcus Ware, alerted me to the open house. I went and applied with my CV with little hope.They received over 8000 applications for these spaces. In late September, while I hadn’t heard anything, I…

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Back from the grave.

My last entry on this blog was from 2017 which seems like ages ago. A lot has gone on between then and now and while most of it has been a struggle. There have been some creative highlights.

My book LILITH was published in 2018 by Desert Pets Press. You can get a copy there on their site. It’s a book of witch poems and the entanglements that women go through in connections, separations, and…

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