Tantramar Revisted: week in review.

Our week begins and ends with the last post from naked east radio at 1:00AM Atlantic, CHSR FM.
Our week in review, therefore, begins Friday.

And Friday began with a bit of news and commentary. A wonderful reflexive piece by Maggie went up Sunday about the lives lived by her cat, terse and semi-fictionalized. Monday night Chuck came over and we walked through Westmount. I thought of trying to explain my feelings about living away from home but decided we'd already seen that conversation through. Instead we walked silently to the St-Marc lookout and stared across the south island.
Tuesday Mike allowed us use of his fantastic photo essay on a day in the life of Fredericton minor celebrity and blogger Charles Leblanc. Charles appreciated it and so did we. We registered 87 hits and 132 page views Tuesday alone.
Then, on Wednesday, a great piece from Marg, a Fredericton writer from St. Andrews, which proved to be, if I may say so, without inundating you completely with commas, a chilling reflection of the development of small-town homicidals and the plenitude of unacknowledged warnings. I once heard that Gregory Allen Despres spent hours locked in the bathroom talking to himself in the mirror in the years before he decapitated an elderly Minto couple.
I spent this afternoon laid out by the window on the second floor of the Atwater library. I read for the first time Charles G.D. Roberts' Tantramar Revisted and was stunned. Because so much of what naked east hopes to do is foster a literary voice for New Brunswick, it is incredible to find antecedent works of striking beauty and depth. It was sobering to realize I was encountering this poem for the first time.

Keep watch for a radio preview. Or just tune in tonight at 11:00PM on CHSR. Bye for now.