Feb
28
Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam is one of those French Symbolists who probably smoked too much hash and washed it down with too much absinthe while reading too much Poe. He had the sort of poverty stricken and disreputable life that teenagers might find romantic. He’s obscure. That’s a damn shame. His 1883 story, “The Glory …
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (sci-fi), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap.
