included a fabulous menagerie opening with a video clip of country musicians playing Sweet Georgia Brown to the beat of a single-cylinder farm tractor (which poet Jirgens described as "hilarious!"). Jirgens himself then took to the stage to relate a strange-but-all-too-true tale concerning the vigilante cultural-guerrilla UnterGunther group's effort to secretly repair the tower clock adorning the Panthéon in Paris.from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: BookFest Windsor: Groovy coolness!
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On the occasion of his milestone 75th B-Day (Sept. 21st), the legendary Chelsea Hotel, a landmark of New York City artistic and BoHo culture, installed and subsequently unveiled a plaque to honour Canada's premier poet, novelist, filmmaker, artist, singer-songwriter, Zen monk Jikan, two-time Grandpa and, now, accomplished on-stage skipper-maestro Oct. 23rd, the date one of this country's most promising candidates for the Literature Nobel wowed the crowd during his intimately enthralling appearance @ Madison Square Garden.
from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: Leonard Cohen: The latest on the greatest
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