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County Fence has our very first feature-length script: Gregaro McKool’s Socialist Extravaganza —or— An Exercise in Over-Confidence.

https://countyfencemagazine.com/gregaro-mckools-socialist-extravaganza-or-an-exercise-in-over-confidence/

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Title card for article: Gregaro McKool's Socialist Extravaganza. White on black line drawing of a dishevelled woman with a messy Edwardian pompadour haircut and a torn 70's skirt suit trying to keep her composure.

Screencap of article. Intro reads:
Since my last article I’ve been busy. Feature length screenplay busy. That’s right, County Fence has it’s first movie: Gregaro McKool’s Socialist Extravaganza —or— An Exercise in Over-Confidence.
I recently re-watched A Futile and Stupid Gesture, the Hollywood bio-pic about Doug Kenney and The National Lampoon. As the newly minted literary editor of Eastern Ontario’s oldest and most prestigious boundary and fencing publication, I have to admit I found it pretty inspiring. Shortly after I finished my last story I told Jules about the movie while we made a significant dent in his scotch collection.

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Once again we find Art Editor Walter Liu scratching his head as he wonders what makes someone an artist and why they’d want that in the first place.

https://countyfencemagazine.com/art-versus-commerce/

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Title card for story ‘Art Versus Commerce’ featuring an old Canadian $500 bill in French with a classical nude painting on it.

Screenshot of the article text. First paragraph reads: I never thought I’d be the one waxing poetic about art but get ready because that’s where we’re going. Like, what even is it? What’s the point?
For a living I create visuals for video games. I don’t design them, that’s someone else’s job. My job is to make them happen in real time in the game. I reproduce other people’s creativity. Rick Ruben says that art is created for art’s sake while art created for financial gain is commerce. One isn’t better than the other but they are different. I create ‘art’ for commerce and don’t feel the need to call myself an artist.
But who is?

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I'm keeping a clear head with my reading and crocheting this weekend ...

* In Search of Lost Time Volume IV, Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust (The Modern Library Classics) https://tinyurl.com/53syzucx

* The Character Actor Convention by Guy Elston (The Porcupine's Quill) https://ghp-pql.com/products/the-character-actor-convention

A light blue can of Biere Sans Alcool Blanche Orange alcohol-free beer sits atop two books: In Search of Lost Time Volume IV, Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust and The Character Actor Convention by Guy Elston, with a crocheted afghan work-in-progress in green, white and gold in the background

This week your loyal literary editor tries to parse out what it is he loves about his home town of Brownlow, Ontario. I hope you enjoy ‘The Brownlow School,’ by literary editor Gregaro McKool.

https://countyfencemagazine.com/the-brownlow-school

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Title card for 'The Brownlow School' featuring a black and white drawing of a movie clapperboard. Studio: County Fence. Production: Socialist Extravaganza. Director: Greg McKool.

Screencap of the article text. First paragraph reads: What is Brownlow even for? I’ve been asking myself that question my entire life because it doesn’t seem like even Brownlow knows. I’m not sure it’s had to. Until recent years people just tended to stick close to where they were born so identity didn’t really matter, it just formed naturally. I even moved back without knowing the answer, I just wanted a cheap place that would let me write not too far from the rest of the world. But now I realize that is the answer.

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In Search of Lost Time Volume IV, Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust (The Modern Library Classics) https://tinyurl.com/53syzucx

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Me, reading Proust on the streetcar - my Blundstone-clad foot and my purple Fluevog purse are in view.

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In Search of Lost Time Vol IV - Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/dec/12/goingtosodomandgomorrahwi

In Search of Lost Time Vol IV - Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright - The book sits on a shiny white food court table with a cup of coffee.

This week Walter meets a girl.

County Fence Bi-Annual Magazine is Eastern Ontario's oldest and most prestigious boundary and fencing publication. While the print edition has explored Eastern Ontario's boundaries since 1973 we are bringing County Fence to the world for the first time via the world wide web.

https://countyfencemagazine.com/rivers-place

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Title cart for ‘River’s Place,’ by art editor Walter Liu. White on black drawing of a ramshackle log cabin with a shipping container addition and greenhouse made of old screen doors.

Screencap of the beginning of the article. First paragraph reads: River’s ‘studio’ is straight-up the kind of place my parents warned me about. They’d tell me that they didn’t immigrate to Canada so I could hang out at grow ops on the rez without cell service. Yet last week I parked my car beside a cornfield, said goodbye for what I hoped was not the last time, and started walking down an ancient stone fence marking the edge of said cornfield.

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After Walter’s piece on Napanee Correspondent Brenda Hogg, Jules Octavian decided to see for himself what lies behind her early-2000’s big-box store privacy fence.

countyfencemagazine.com/gentrification

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Title card for “Gentrification,” featuring white on black picture of a woman peeking over a generic privacy fence.

Screenshot of the article “Gentrification.” First paragraph reads: The greying privacy fence behind Brenda Hogg’s white aluminum-sided wartime home may look like nearly every other house on the street but what lays behind is an artist, or so our art editor Walter Liu tells me after the dust up at the gallery the other week.

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Since art editor Walter Liu couldn’t find the local art scene the local art scene found him. And they’re not so sure they like what they found.

https://countyfencemagazine.com/the-art-show/

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Title card for ‘The Art Show,’ a white on black line drawing of a Harley Davidson motorcycle over a giant molar.

Screencap of the article. First paragraph reads: So I guess it’s not as hard to find out what’s going on around here as I made out in my first article, I just don’t know how to look. That’s what the local arts scene told me, anyway. Or rather they told Jules who told me. In any case, it got me an invitation to a show that I still have no idea how I would have known about. I guess if you know you know and I just don’t, which is a me problem. Or so I’m told. Anyway, I thought I’d give it a fair shake.

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Travel editor Rachael Boardman grew up in Brownlow but left as soon as she could — this week she weighs whether or not to return.

https://countyfencemagazine.com/home-port/

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Title card for story titled ‘Home Port’ featuring a white on black line drawing of the stern of a sailing yacht. ‘Atlanta, Brownlow, ON’ is printed on the stern.

Screen capture of the first part of the story. First paragraph reads: “I’ve been trying to get away from Brownlow for nearly two-decades, half my life. Now I wonder if the thing I’ve been trying to get away from has been with me the entire time.” Read the rest of the story at countyfencemagazine.com

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What Is Broken Binds Us by Lorne Daniel (University of Calgary Press) https://tinyurl.com/mwmu6wjh
In Search of Lost Time Volume 1, Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (The Modern Library Classics) https://tinyurl.com/53syzucx

Wherever you're reading, whatever you're reading ... enjoy!

Me, mirror-sunglassed and smiling, on the dock at Big Doe Lake, with lake, far shore and fluffy-clouded sky behind me, with these books on a small red table behind me: What Is Broken Binds Us by Lorne Daniels (University of Calgary Press) and In Search of Lost Time Volume 1 Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (The Modern Library Classics)

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Concannon By Clifton Adams. Fantasic. A Detective-Western that takes place in 1893 Oklahoma City. 23 thumbs up. #bookstodon #books #reading #weekendreads #pbo

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