Alackaday : JG Ballard RIP
“Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: entire relationships flourish, friendships prosper…there’s a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet.”
JG Ballard, 15 Nov 1930 – 19 April 2009, RIP
** UPDATE ** There's a nice review of the man and his work by Irish writer Patrick Chapman over at Eyewear.
Poem on the 2-1 Loss to the USA by the Canadian Men's Hockey Team In The
Gold Medal Game at the 2026 Winter Olympics
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*On The Game*
For a moment, while they played,
my father was alive again,
roaring at the TV -
come on! come on! -
and then, that overtime brutality -
a mil...
4 weeks ago