Edmonton Art & Festival Scene

It’s Simple Saturday, so I thought I’d just give you a brief listing of what’s happening in the Edmonton art and festival scene right now.
The Works–Edmonton’s annual visual art and design festival–is in progress, and runs until July 5. There’s so much to see, I don’t even know where to begin. I haven’t had a [...]

Burlington on Whyte Tobacconists: One of My Favourite Places

As regular readers will be well aware, I enjoy a good cigar now and again. There are a surprising number of places to buy cigars in this city, but there is only one that I go to with regularity. Burlington on Whyte is one of my favourite places. I love walking inside and smelling the [...]

Writer’s Block is Gone

I’ve been suffering from a terrible bout of writer’s block for the past few months. I’d previously claimed that I had it beat, but that turned out to be wishful thinking on my part. This time, though, it’s really over. I have the beginnings of a poem down on paper. Today was a day of [...]

Freelancer for Hire

As part of my efforts to eventually become a full time freelance writer, I have begun looking for work that I can do on the side in order to increase my experience and build a client base. Unfortunately, I’m finding it difficult to find job boards that don’t require payment for access. If anyone knows [...]

Looking for a New Car

My brother bought his first car yesterday. It cost him a whopping $200, and it’s in surprisingly good shape. It’s actually in damn good shape. It’s missing a mirror, and will eventually need to have a bit of work done on the head gasket, but it looks to be in otherwise great shape. There might [...]

Sunday Link Dump - 23-06-07

Darkness, Light, Darkness: A truly bizarre short film. It’s stop motion, which I’ve always found very cool. The patience of the animators amazes me. Warning, contains clay figure nudity (potentially NSFW).
How Much Do I Need to Save for Retirement: How much do you need to save for retirement? Not as much as you think, according [...]

Simple Saturday: Why I Want to go Freelance

Author’s note: To my current employer, if you happen to be reading this, I’m not planning on walking out the door on Monday. It will be a couple of years before I’m freelancing full time, so I plan to be with the company for a little while yet.
I mentioned earlier in the week that I [...]

Dadeo: One of My Favourite Places

In a blatant rip off of Scott McKeen’s ongoing series for the Edmonton Journal, I’ve decided to make “My Favourite Places” a regular column here at Ink Slinger. I’m going to try and write a piece about one of my favourite Edmonton eateries, watering holes, galleries, book stores, or whatever, once a week. Like McKeen’s [...]

Unreal City: Palimpsest

I was trolling Facebook today, and I came across an event called Unreal City: Palimpsest, which is a Grant MacEwan student project in conjunction with the Works festival. The show combines photography and poetry, and focuses on the urban environment and it’s many complex layers. It sounds like a damn cool project. I’ll definitely be [...]

Edmonton Summer Writing Workshop

I haven’t been writing enough lately. Partly, this is because I have had the worst case of writer’s block that I’ve ever had for the past few months. With rare except, I have written nothing except press releases and a couple of industry articles at work. My personal writing has been all but non-existent–no poems, [...]

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