people with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) are advised to find ways to be in the light. as someone who gets blue when having to put up with constant sunshine and blue sky, i would love it if there were a place, a room or something that simulates storms, rain, clouds etc. i'd also love winter rooms. summer might be a bit more bearable for those of us who suffer from this rainy version of SAD. i don't know if there is anyone else that loathes the sun & bluesky as much as i do. perhaps not....

Recently i had the pleasure of hearing Christian Bök's amazing sound poetry. Speaking with Frank Davey and Christian at a recent conference at the Univeristy of Ottawa called "Re: reading the postmodern," i mused about the possibilities of taking sound poetry, having it recorded by speech recognition software and then having the result transcribed to be performed once again by the poet and done all over again. I refer readers to the interesting work of sound poets as featured on...

start a poem or story or doodle what have you and mail it to buddy a. buddy a will add a bit and pass it to buddy b and so on. could be just two people or more... a variation of this is to play the surrealist exquisite corpse game thru the mail...via postcards or letters. i love the idea of mail art.