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Geist-107.Pdf Volume 27 · Number 107 · Winter 2017 FEATURES NIBELUNG WHO TOOK MY SISTER? HOT PULSE Devon Code Shannon Webb-Campbell Jill Robinson Rhine gold, Colorado gold Members of a voiceless choir Hacksaws and beach sex 41 48 52 The eventual heat death of the universe will take care of all of this. NOTES & DISPATCHES FINDINGS COLUMNS Jill Boettger 18 BIRD’S EYE VIEW How to Unthink Once and Future Prairie 8 Trans-Siberian Sleeper Lisa Bird-Wilson 57 Julia Perroni In Other Words Foreign AFTERLIFE OF CULTURE 10 Small City Rockstar Confidence Woman Stephen Henighan Jill Mandrake Bizarre Competitions 59 July, ’77 11 CITY OF WORDS Eating Peas with Honey Jeff Shucard Alberto Manguel Breakfast in Datça 61 12 DEPARTMENTS Jocelyn Kuang Candy Cap Magic 14 MISCELLANY 4 Hanako Masutani Arty Bollocks Wakaranai ENDNOTES 16 Saigon Calling 64 Military Operations OFF THE SHELF, NOTED ELSEWHERE Channeling the Masters 71 and more… PUZZLE 72 COVER: The image on the cover is Self-portrait as Mrs. Charles Costello, 1997. From Incarnations: The Photographs of Janieta Eyre, published by Coach House Books in 2017. MISCELLANY PUBLISHED BY The Geist Foundation FINER POINTS Dear Anne, PUBLISHER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AnnMarie MacKinnon In “Waiting Out the Big One” (Geist Thanks for your note and commitment No. 105), Stephen Osborne refers to to toponymical accuracy! OPERATIONS MANAGER Jocelyn Kuang Commercial Street. Commercial Street? There is a spot, close to 18th Avenue This is Vancouver we're talking about, and just before (whilst heading south) ASSOCIATE EDITOR Michał Kozłowski right? This is the Stephen Osborne the Victoria Drive Diversion, where who’s lived there, like, forever, right? there is indeed a Commercial Street, just ADMINISTRATION Intern: Gabriel Scorgie It’s Commercial Drive. Most people off of Commercial Drive. It’s funny that Volunteers: Anson Ching, Lauren in the neighbourhood just call it “the you mention this, as several of our proof- Dembicky, Jill Mandrake, Patty Drive.” I lived on the Drive in 1972, readers spotted this thinking it was an er- Osborne, Jennesia Pedri, Julia Perroni before it became trendy with left-wing ror as well! Thank goodness for intrepid BRAIN TRUST activist-types, when it was just “the Ital- fact checkers and attentive readers! Stephen Osborne, Mary Schendlinger Co-founders, Consulting Publishers ian district”—but it was referred to as the Drive back then too. My friend and Still unafraid of Canadian place-names, EDITOR-IN-RESIDENCE Shannon Webb-Campbell former mother-in-law still lives a few —The Editors blocks from the Drive on 3rd Avenue. DESIGNER Syd Danger My paternal grandparents moved to Dear Editors, Vancouver in 1885 and 1886. I prefer I'm glad your proofreaders were alert PROOFREADER Helen Godolphin people not be sloppy when referring to (though wrong, like me). I'm surprised the city’s famous places—especially peo- you haven't heard from more readers. ACCOUNTANT Mindy Abramowitz CGA ple from a magazine that used to have, I checked a map and now I'm totally as one of its slogans, “totally unafraid of confused. I don't remember a Victoria CIRCULATION Larry Wyatt Canadian place-names.” Drive Diversion. I remember a Com- —Anne Miles, Cyberspace mercial Drive Diversion—a dead-end WEB ARCHITECTS Metro Publisher after the traffic from Commercial Drive gets funneled onto Victoria. But this map DISTRIBUTION Magazines Canada Artists in this Issue I'm consulting would put the “Commer- cial Div.” (which I assume means “Com- MANAGING EDITOR EMERITUS Barbara Zatyko Syd Danger is a graphic designer and il- mercial Diversion”) between Georgia lustrator who's not afraid to spill a little and Venables!? My map shows that, in- FIRST SUBSCRIBER Jane Springer ink. She enjoys mixing traditional and dig- deed, there is a Commercial Street, after ital mediums. She also puts Geist together. the Victoria Div., that does not dead-end CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Jordan Abel, Bartosz Barczak, Kevin Janieta Eyre is a photographer whose but goes on as far as 54th Avenue! Now, Barefoot, Kathy Battye, Trevor Battye, work has been shown widely, including I might have thought the Commercial andrea bennett, Jill Boettger, Jesmine in Italy, Germany, Spain, Iceland, East- Diversion dead-ended a few blocks south Cham, C.E. Coughlan, Brad Cran, Melissa Edwards, Robert Everett- ern Europe, Korea, the United States of Broadway because it does not connect Green, Daniel Francis, Randy Fred, and Canada. She lives in Toronto. directly with Commercial Street, but I Lily Gontard, Michael Hayward, David Leventi is an American pho- have a distinct memory of this stump of Gillian Jerome, Brian Lam, Jill Mandrake, Thad McIlroy, Billeh tographer, recognized for his ability to the Drive—south of Broadway, nowhere Nickerson, Christine Novosel, Patty capture architectural interiors. Leventi near Venables—being labelled "Com- Osborne, Eric Peterson, Dan Post, is best known for his acclaimed series mercial Diversion" on the street sign Debby Reis, Kris Rothstein, Norbert OPERA, which has been exhibited in- Ruebsaat, Jane Silcott, Roni Simunovic, over forty years ago. So, either I’m go- Paul Tough, Eric Uhlich, Michelle van ternationally and appears on pp. 41–46. ing dotty or something’s been renamed. der Merwe Stephen Osborne was publisher of So, my apologies to Stephen Os- Geist for its first twenty-five years. He is borne, given that there is, indeed, a the award winning writer of Ice & Fire: Dis- Commercial Street, in sight of the Sky- patches from the New World and dozens of Train track, where he evidently lived in SUPPORT THE GEIST WRITERS AND ARTISTS FUND: shorter works in anthologies and periodi- a leaky condo. GEIST.COM/WAFUND cals. Read more of his work at geist.com. —Anne Miles WWW.GEIST.COM 4 Geist 107 Winter 2017 Geist is published four times a year. CRYPTIC TAXONOMIES Some time ago, we received a note from our avid crossword solvers, Jim Lowe Contents copyright © 2017 The Geist and Brian Goth, on the back of their puzzle solution. They were curious about Foundation. All rights reserved. the identity of Meandricus, the creator of the always-challenging, sometimes- Subscriptions: in Canada: $25 (1 year); in frustrating Geist Cryptic Crossword. Meandricus is the pseudonym for our the United States and elsewhere: $27. Visa intrepid puzzle-maker, who is also a book designer, potter, teacher, volunteer, and MasterCard accepted. writer and lateral thinker. Correspondence and inquiries: The firstGeist puzzles were prepared by Smilax, whose pseudonym was [email protected], [email protected], believed to be the name of a garden slug. Geist fact checkers recently discov- [email protected], [email protected]. ered that Smilax is the name of a plant, not a slug. But there is a slug known Include SASE with Canadian postage or as Milax upon which our original puzzler may have based his pseudonym. IRC with all submissions and queries. Meandricus, who took over as the Geist puzzler for issue 9 (April/May 1993), #210 – 111 West Hastings Street Vancouver BC Canada V6B 1H4 recalls trying to find an appropriate slug name as a pseudonym but since “Me- andricus” refers to a fish, not a slug, some lateral thinking must have taken Submission guidelines are available at place, the details of which were left behind in the ’90s. geist.com. ISSN 1181-6554. —The Editors Geist swaps its subscriber list with other cultural magazines for one-time mailings. Please contact us if you prefer not to receive these mailings. Publications Mail Agreement 40069678 Registration No. 07582 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Circulation Department, #210 – 111 West Hastings Street Vancouver BC Canada V6B 1H4 Email: [email protected] Tel: (604) 681-9161, 1-888-GEIST-EH; Fax: (604) 677-6319; Web: geist.com Geist is a member of Magazines Canada and the Magazine Association of BC. Indexed in the Canadian Literary Periodicals Index and available on microfilm from University Microfilms Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The Geist Foundation receives assistance from private donors, the Canada Daniel Francis shakes a hand that’s been in space. Council, the BC Arts Council, the City of Vancouver and the Cultural Human Resources Council. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of CONGRATULATIONS! Canada through the Canada Periodical Fund (CPF) of the Department of Hearty congratulations go out to Daniel Francis, long-time columnist and Canadian Heritage. friend of Geist, for being awarded the Pierre Berton Award, the Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media. The prize recognizes excep- tional achievement in books, film, television and new media and was pre- sented at Rideau Hall by the Governor General (and former astronaut!), Julie Payette. But wait, more congratulations are in order! We’d also like to extend congratulations to Alberto Manguel, another long- time columnist and friend of Geist, who was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in December. His ongoing work as an anthologist, writer, editor and translator is being recognized for its contribution to our knowledge and understanding of literature. photo: mcpl vincent carbonneau, rideau hall, osgg, 2017 Miscellany 5 MISCELLANY GEIST IN SPAIN NEW EDITOR-IN-RESIDENCE We’d like to introduce our new editor-in- residence, Shannon Webb-Campbell. She is a mixed Mi’kmaq-settler poet, writer and critic. Her forthcoming book Who Took My Sister? (BookThug, March 2018) explores Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indig- enous Women, decolonial poetics, trauma and the land, and will be transformed into a touring classical music performance for violin and piano. Her book Still No Word (Breakwater, 2015), was the recipient of Egale Canada’s Out In Print Award. Shan- non is a member of Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation, and currently lives in Montreal. She will be our editor-in-residence for this issue and the next, Geist 108.
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