I took Christopher and Agnieska to a few sets of the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word on Saturday ("Baby, it's poetry, yes, but it's poetry by lesbians") and.... he liked it. Sandra Alland, who I try to see whenever I hear that she's doing a reading, was there and was excellent. Besides the Queer set, there was an African-Canadian set and a Nerd Poetry set. The Nerd Poetry set was UNBELIEVABLE. It had us laughing until there was tears. Mike Bryant did a side-splitting hiphop piece about knitting that has had Chris and I looking at each other and muttering "Knitta, please" all week long. And then we went for sushi with Agnes and I teased Christopher mercilessly because HE LIKED THE POETRY AND HE COULD NOT DENY IT.



Oh, and we went to see Badly Drawn Boy with Matthew (of the Barton clan), Matthew who still owes me breakfast (since last spring!!). Concert photos here.