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Postcards From Gravelly Beach

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Dave O reads literature snippets by himself (short fiction, essays, letters and free verse) along with works from an international smattering of literary stalwarts including Brautigan, Tolstoy, Abbey, Snyder, Whitman, Joyce, Marquez, Rimbaud, ... well, you get the idea. Dave - a published writer and filmmaker - brews up the audio Postcards from various locales around the Cascadia region - mostly Vancouver, BC.

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Note to Subscribers

Dave catches up after an absense and announces a new feed source http://feeds.feedburner.com/gravellybeach and requests subscribers to move on over....

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[ Sun, 5 Feb 2006 16:20:00 -0800 ]

Short Fiction - coincidentally about Drinking

Out on a nighttime walk, Dave sits in the frosty grass under a tree, by a pond, with a Guiness and reads 'post-modern' stories by Murakami Haruki, Raymond Carver, Kelsye Nelson and himself, as well as offering up festivus gift ideas....

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[ Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:20:00 -0800 ]

Snowy Nightime Porch with Raccoons

From a snowy porch with raccoons chirping nearby, Dave reads from Richard Brautigan, Phillip Whalen, ee cummings, Walt Whitman plus original free verse while enjoying Pernod and ginger-ale....

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[ Sun, 4 Dec 2005 16:20:00 -0800 ]

A Wabi-Sabi, Foggy Morning

On a foggy morning with Osmanthus tea, Dave reads tales by professor Larry Harper - The Man Who Loved Provo, and himself - Right (as in Correctly) plus a snippet from Natsume Soseki's very wabi-sabi classic - Kokoro....

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[ Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:20:00 -0800 ]

Heading out with Weed and Brautigan (the missing first episode)

Dave introduces the show format and reads part 1 of Uncle Weed's Red Rock Adventure and a snippet from Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America....

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[ Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:54:07 -0800 ]

Robert Burns on Remembrance day

With a head full of cold medicine, Dave reads a haibun poem for Remembrance day and then enjoys John Cairney reading Robert Burns' exploits and indiscretions in Edinburgh....

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[ Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:24:54 -0800 ]

Rainy day with Letters and Tolling Bells

On a rainy day, Dave - with strong coffee - reads two more Letters from Russia plus a breathy bit of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls....

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[ Wed, 02 Nov 2005 02:24:54 -0800 ]

Ice Skates and Vancouver writers

Dave - on a couch with red wine - reads short story snippets by Gordon Cavenaile and himself, plus a poem by John Barta and part of Hans Brinker to celebrate his new hockey skates....

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[ Sat, 15 Oct 2005 02:24:54 -0800 ]

Streaming consciousness from a North Shore porch

Dave - from a porch in Vancouver's North Shore - dedicates his favorite part of James Joyce's Ulysses to a friend, plus reads some of his own short story called About Being Stabbed in the Forehead....

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[ Sun, 09 Oct 2005 02:24:54 -0800 ]

Rimbaud in Bill's Steamboat woodshed

Dave starts the reading on a pier at Capitol lake and continues days later at Bill's woodshed on Steamboat Island where he reads original free verse written in German countryside as well as works by French poet, Arthur Rimbaud....

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[ Tue, 27 Sep 2005 02:24:54 -0800 ]

Barflys in the backyard reading Bukowski and Kerouac

DaveO - feeling chillaxed - reads from Kerouac's Some of the Dharma, Bukowski's Barfly and some of his own love junk while Christopher provides guitar and vocal stylings from the backyard at the Puget house....

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[ Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:24:54 -0800 ]

In Vancouver with Salinger and disc golf hi-jinx

From QE park in beloved Vancouver, Dave reads from J.D. Salinger's "For Esme with Love and Squalor" and part of a "Letter from Russia" until disc golf hi-jinx ensue!...

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[ Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:24:54 -0800 ]

Kerouac rides west and Dave hitches north

From a backyard, Dave reads from Jack Kerouac s On the Road and a bit of hitch-hike narrative of his own - backed with more smoking jazz....

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[ Thu, 08 Sep 2005 02:24:54 -0800 ]

Aerogrammes to Utah, St. Louis and the Gulf Coast

Utah writer variety pack - Francios Camoin, Levi Peterson, and Ed Abbey - plus original essay about Glen Canyon. Then, Lewis and Clark check in from the homestretch after scoring some whiskey....

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[ Sun, 04 Sep 2005 02:24:54 -0800 ]

Lewis and Clark move west, Ed Abbey s wisdom and Uncle Weed s story part 3

Lewis and Clark lose horses on Sept 3rd, Ed Abbey foretells the future and Uncle Weed tells a story to the kids....

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[ Fri, 02 Sep 2005 02:24:54 -0800 ]

Kerouac in Mexico, Snyder in Japan and jazz from Banff

Dave, chillaxing with sake some smoking jazz tracks, reads from Kerouac s Lonesome Traveller, Mexico City Blues and American Haiku plus Gary Snyder from the Backcountry and miscellaneous original haiku and haibun plus a couple from masters Issa K...

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[ Wed, 31 Aug 2005 02:24:54 -0800 ]

Rousseau Confesses and more Letters from Russia

Dave sits with ducks at Capitol Lake and reads Jean Jacques Rousseau s Confessions and offers a bit of discourse on transparency, plus reads two more Letters from Russia....

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[ Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:24:54 -0800 ]

Uncle Weed and Ed Abbey head to Canyonlands

Dave hangs out in the dark at Seven Oars park and reads Part 2 of Uncle Weeds Red Rock Adventure, chats about Edward Abbey, and reads from Desert Solitaire (scored fresh from Olympia s Last Word Books)....

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[ Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:24:54 -0800 ]

Russian epics, French poems and Irish beer

Dave reads from his own Letters from Russia, Tolstoy s War and Peace and a bit of French poetry while fumbling with pronunciation and enjoying a Guinness in the nighttime garden....

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[ Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:24:54 -0800 ]

Thoreau and Marquez along for the ride

Dave reads from Henry David Thoreau s Walden and Civil Disobedience plus Gabriel Garcia Marquez s 100 Years of Solitude and his own Portugal Snapshots...

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[ Tue, 23 Aug 2005 02:24:54 -0800 ]

Dave Remembers Florida, Gary Snyder heads to Japan and Walt Whitman wanders

Dave O reads from Gary Snyder s Left out in the Rain and Walt Whitman s Leaves of Grass and his own I Remember Florida...

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[ Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:24:54 -0800 ]

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