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Author Archives: Barry Pomeroy
Airports
End of the world texts almost always feature the end of air travel. My friend loves airports and even goes early in order to enjoy the rushing to and fro, the greetings, and the patina of travel the exhausted people … Continue reading
Forerunners
When I was a child my foster father Cecil used to tell stories of forerunners. These were stories in which a local person would see some image of the near future. For instance, old Tyler Roach who complained to his … Continue reading
Posted in Supernatural, Superstition
Tagged Divination, Divining, Dowsing, Faith Healing, Forerunners, Ghosts, Ghouls, Operant Conditioning, Religion, Spirits, Supernatural
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What Do You Do for Fun?
One of my students asked me what I did with my time and he was at first aghast and then dismayed at my response. In the beginning I didn’t know he was asking about leisure time, so I described marking … Continue reading
The Word
When I was young I thought a single word could change everything. As I grew older I thought I needed to instead depend on collections of words, and hoped that by their jostling Brownian randomness they would somehow settle into … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Theory, Literature, Writing
Tagged Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Lacan, Leonard Cohen, Signified, Signifier
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The Body Out of Control
For some reason literary treatment of the body out of control is both evocative and frequently avoided. You can think of Margaret Laurence’s Stone Angel which is touted as being such a great portrayal of a disintegrating mind, but one … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Theory, Literature, Singularity
Tagged Charles Stross, Gulliver’s Travels, Harry Potter, Margaret Lawrence, meatspace, Singularity, Stone Angel
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The Hot and Cold of Aid
When I first went overseas with the volunteer organization Canadian Crossroads International (CCI)—which I wholeheartedly recommend—they put us through a highly questionable selection procedure. There are a few of these organizations that offer what people in the development field call … Continue reading
Posted in Development
Tagged Aid, Canadian Crossroads International, CCI, Cook Islands, Habitat for Humanity, United Church, WUSC
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Writing the Police
I sometimes imagine telling the story of a cop in a police state. I think about what goes on in their head, whether they are merely following orders, like the Nazi underlings claimed at Nuremberg, or whether they are so … Continue reading
Posted in News, Police, Writing
Tagged Arrogant Worms, Cops, George Zimmerman, Last Saskatchewan Pirate, Mountie Bob, Nazi, Nuremberg defense, Occupy movement, Police, Police Brutality, Salty Bob, Trayvon Martin
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November is Novel Writing Month, Not Short Story Writing Month
As many of you know, November is the month that many people around the world put away the procrastination and pick up the pen, or more likely keyboard, to expand a late night idea into a novel. The challenge is … Continue reading
Posted in Code World, Writing
Tagged Avatar, Code World, Hackers, NaNoWriMo, Virtual Reality
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How to Make Facebook Work for You
This is nowhere as easy as it sounds and I am sure that people more media and tech savvy than me have worked out a better way. The problem is that my facebook feed bombards me with cat videos and … Continue reading
Posted in News, Social Media
Tagged Clickbait, Facebook, Science, Science News, Social Media, Subscribing
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To Talk About Mars
No talk about Mars is complete unless you begin with Giovanni Schiaparelli and his canali. It has become almost a cliché in the field of exobiology, at least in terms of Mars, that ancient history, complete with Percival Lowell’s maps, … Continue reading
Posted in Mars
Tagged Canali, Dr. Ed Cloutis, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Mariner, Mars, Mars Direct, Mars One, Percival Lowell, Princess of Mars, Robert Zubrin, Viking
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