If it's the season to be jolly, then it's also the season for year-end lists. The first list I have read all the way to the end can be found in this week's double issue of NOW, the Hogtown weekly entertainment tab.
The list in question is called "r.i.p." and remembers those in the arts and elsewhere who died in 2014. In with the internationally recognized, such as Pete Seeger, P. D. James, Lauren Bacall, Joe Cocker and Nadine Gordimer, are such Hogtown notables as Nik Beat, the poet and musician, fiddler and producer Nash the Slash, playwright and actor Linda Griffiths, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the boxer and justice activist, politician Dan Heap and broadcaster Reiner Schwarz. But nothing on Crad Kilodney, the highly singular writer and self-publisher, who died this spring. (See my post April 5, 2014). Perhaps it was an oversight or perhaps the folks at NOW have short memories. Either way, it's a mistake that needs to be acknowledged and corrected. I knew Crad Kilodney, not well, but we were on chatty terms when he was flogging his work - Putrid Scum and Lightning Struck My Dick were two of his titles - on Yonge Street in the 1970s. A New Yorker by birth, Crad was a CanLit original and his name should have been on that list even if he would have been appalled at the idea.
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