On Remembrance Day in sunny, brisk Vancouver, Ian Bell (fresh from a CBC appearance “On The Coast“) joins Dave to […]
Vimy Ridge Diaries on Remembrance Day – Postcard #61 Read Post »
A fave from the highland bard: Highland Mary, 1792 O pale, pale now, those rosy lips,I aft hae kiss’d sae
Snippet: R. Burns, Highland Mary, 1792 Read Post »
From a forested pathway along the open Pacific between Tofino and Ucluelet, DaveO reads poetry from Gary Snyder’s Myths +
Forests and Oceans Without End – Postcard #60 Read Post »
Ferlinghetti: I never wrote Beat poetry. Wide-open poetry (is) what Neruda told me in Cuba “I love your wide-open poetry’
Ferlighetti: I never wrote Beat poetry (etc) via SF Gate (for LF’s 90th birthday) Read Post »
Dave O spiels forth about the exploration of rivers and lakes, the impetus for ventures and motivations for trade ~
Owl Creek Limnology and Exploration – Postcard #59 Read Post »
By a campfire on Owl Creek, Dave reads an instructional guide to hitch-hiking about a November trip from South Carolina
Three Days and Eleven Dollars, Nov. 1991 – Postcard #58 Read Post »
While summertime camping alongside Owl Creek and charging the recorder with the rays of the sun, Dave reads a short
Arizona with Ole Gramps – Postcard #57 Read Post »
As part of Translink (the greater Vancouver area transit authority)’s “I Love Transit” week, i was invited by Jhenifer Pabliano
“Rolling to the End of the Line” Transit mixed-media essay on the Buzzer Read Post »
Rolling aboard buses, trolleys, Skytrain and Seabus, Uncle Weed discusses changing routes and riding transit for escape, exploration, creativity, inspiration
Rolling to the End of the Line – Choogle On! #77 Read Post »
Depth Perception – Collected Freeverse Poetry (chapbook) from Dave Olson
Depth Perception, Collected Freeverse by Dave Olson Read Post »
From Halfmoon Bay on Vancouver Island, Dave gives it up for zen poet hero Gary Snyder and recounts beat history from The Old Ways and logging culture from Myths and Texts plus poems about hitchhiking, girls, baths, clearcuts and the Buddha plus original freeverse poetry.
Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56 Read Post »
From Wreck Beach on University of BC campus Uncle Weed offers international, festive greetings with tales of journies to come, the feeling of the edge of the world, reflections of NYEs in Japan, cougars on the Baden Powell trail, float planes, ferries and barges, and mostly asking the universe what to do next? Plus special holiday greetings from Herby, now a free man. Music by Chris Jacobsen, from Filterland, Spilt Milk cassettes, circa 1994 Guam, Pacific.
Festive Musings from Wreck Beach – Choogle On! #76 Read Post »
Alongside raging Lynn Creek, Dave remarks about boulders which are indeed interesting as the sign pointed out, then reads a
Chronicling Interesting Boulders – Postcard #55 Read Post »
From a skunk-scented perch along Mosquito Creek, Dave spiels about feverish dreams in a Mexican clinic, personal archeology, mirages about
Post-apocalyptic Skunks and Fevers – Postcard #54 Read Post »
Visiting the Woodshop on Steamboat Island amidst hayfever and national holidays, Dave and Wm. Lenker exchange spontaneous musical freeverse tales
Howling at Land and Sea – Postcards #53 Read Post »
freshly skinny white leaping from the storm the 2AM moonlight fractures with the impact the rocks below clarified by the
