zombie slam.
so we rented "dead space" this week. it was fine. i mean, it was good. (i'm talking about an xbox game.) it had an interesting twist. the things you had to kill, some sort of alien zombies, you couldn't kill like in regular shooters. you had to shoot them in the legs and arms and dismember them. that was their weak spot. that goes against all my prior training, you know? i'm used to going for the head shot all the time. avoid the limbs. now i had to shoot them off. it took some adjustment. but once i got the hang of it, it went fine. and the story is pretty good. well, it's all right. i mean for a cheap sci-fi video game. the weapons were also interesting. they had to make new types of guns to cut off limbs with. cutters, tools, etc. it was innovative, in general. good game. yea.

went to sherbrooke last tuesday. for a launch of their anthology for last year's festival du text court (short text festival). they published some of my stuff in there. some of it was stuff that i didn't remember writing or giving to them. but that's cool. part of the fun. one (and a half) of my texts they published was in english. that's odd because they're a french organization... i don't know, i didn't think they would publish that stuff. i don't mind, but it's odd.
the launch was held in a micro-brewery, so there was pretty good beer. not great, but all right. fun times.

i tried to go to the english slam night in montreal. nobody showed up. wish they'd publish the new time/dates on their website, but it hasn't updated in a year or so. actually, same thing happened when i tried to go to the french slam open-mic last sunday. what the fuck is going on?