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[c9]

I attended Reading Out Loud, this evening, a public reading by various queer and ally Haligonians on the occasion of Pride Week. Reading were friends and acquaintances like Dan MacKay (Wayves editor), Joey Comeau (of A Softer World), Jane Wright (restaurateur* of Jane's On The Common), Benjie and Mike of YoungGayAmerica, and Jane Kansas, Halifax writer extraordinaire. It was very enjoyable, though ungodly hot in the library basement and I nearly suffocated.

Anyway, the library was kind enough to provide free bottled water. I offer it here for your amusement.

The logo may be familiar to obsessively observant Haligonians: it's the Halifax Regional Water Commission, and the bottled water is actually Halifax tap water. They are very proud of this, and tell you all about how it exceeds national standards, etc. They have a point: in Canada there are more and stricter laws regarding tap water than there are for bottled water. It was much better than Kitchener water, that much I can tell you.

* Jane Kansas, who I would trust with my words, told us pointedly that restaurateur does not contain an 'n'. "Don't let me catch you writing it with an 'n'!" she said. Dictionary.com lists it both ways, so perhaps this is a US/Canada thing?

Comments

[rebelprince26.livejournal.com]

weird. joey is on my friends list and i read he was going to do that reading, and then i read that you went to it, like hours later. and it was two worlds that i didn't realize could be connected came crashing together.

random. do all canadians know each other?

[c9.livejournal.com]

Oh definitely.

[disasternat.livejournal.com]

I also know both Cam and Joey, however I wasn't at the reading - though I wish I had been seeing the line up of authors.

[senhor.livejournal.com]

Would she be a "restaurateuse"? Do people still make that distinction when borrowing French words into English? I'm so confused these days.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Jane Kansas would most certainly avoid the idea that a woman who owns a restaurant is somehow different from a man who owns a restaurant, so I dunno. I would personally go for actor, host, and singer, rather than doctress, carpentress, and restaurateuse.

[c9.livejournal.com]

I should clarify that none of them read their own work, though the closest were Jane Wright reading a raunchy letter to her from Jane Kansas, and Benjie reading poems Mike wrote years and years ago and made him promise not to attribute (though obviously he did anyway).