Young Paris - "WATAH". Plummeting clouds. They land in the street like cinderblocks. They thud onto roofs, clang onto driveways, hit fences at an angle and spin out into dust. People are hit - right in the head, bloodened and blinded by heavy falling clouds. Sirens ring. Children cower in windows. What is going on, that clouds plummet, heavy? What is going on here exactly? Pundits will say that there's an issue with evaporation, precipitates, additives in the water. Nobody considers that this might simply be a choice: stony heaviness, undeliberate, the universe in an unwittingly good mood. [bandcamp]

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Other business:

Please don't miss Dan's ridiculous, brilliant webseries announcement from earlier this week.

A handful of Us Conductors events in Canada this week:

• MONTREAL
  • Friday, May 2 - I'll be telling a story about bears, Siberia and Steve Seagal as part of Blue Metropolis's This Really Happened storytelling night.
  • Saturday, May 3 - Join me in conversation with Josh "Socalled" Dolgin, again as part of Blue Metropolis.
• VANCOUVER
  • Wednesday, May 7 - I'll be reading with Ondjaki and Claire Battershill as part of Vancouver Writers Fest.
• VICTORIA, BC
  • Friday, May 9 - An amazing night planned at the Solstice Café: a reading from the novel plus music by theremin art-pop band Cleopatra and the Nile, with help from Continental Shelf and Munro Books.
• NANAIMO, BC
  • Saturday, May 10 - Afternoon reading at the Nanaimo Harbourfront Library.

Hope to see you there!