Chris

Chris

TIFF Day 2

Film Recommendation / You’re Next (2011) Horror is a genre I’ve never found to be worth much time. Standards are consistently low, narratives badly constructed, and stories lazily told. ‘You’re Next‘ is different. Well-paced and solidly built, ‘You’re Next,‘ is…

Practical Efforts

How You Can Help Throughout my homelessness, practical help has been surprisingly hard to come by. What does that mean? It means well-intentioned people often don’t know quite how to make a positive difference for a homeless person. There are…

TIFF Day 1

Film Recommendation / The Day Shall Come (2019) While I am not attending TIFF, I do like good movies. Anna Kendrick. Black comedy. Chris Morris’ sensibility. ‘The Day Shall Come,‘ is my recommendation for day one of the 2022 Toronto…

SQ|1

Trigger Warning: Images of actual violence and death are included in this video. (You can download the video rather than streaming it.) This video took a lot of effort to complete. The primary themes are on perspective and its origins,…

Looking for Work

I’m looking for work. If you know of anything, please contact me at: chris@homelessunlimited.com. Recently, I’ve been able to keep most of my belongings in a locker, which makes everything much easier — mobility, appearance of normalcy, etc. I’ve an…

Off Ramp

Sooner or later, a person’s homelessness reaches a point of terminal decline. The undelivered resources, the absence of opportunity, the institutional violence of coercive apathy produce a kind of stasis, a kind of non-life. Beyond survival, no outcome has meaning,…

Temple of Doom

For ease of access, a quick link to a page which is a work-in-progress. Here. It’s text description and context for the ’15 Seconds of Theme,’ series. Links will be added to the YouTube embeds when time allows.

Trust Me, It’s Free

(…and if there’s a problem, you did agree to the Terms of Service!) You’ll notice every wi-fi hotspot you use asks you to agree to terms of service. These always include the caveat that the network may allow others to…

Numbers/Cost of Living

March 2022 NOTE: This text was written in late 2021, before inflation began to rise. My food costs have, as of March 28, 2022, increased 30%. My income, which as a homeless person is all of $343 monthly, is not…

Creative Targets

Over the past few days I sought and found an Amazon delivery box to change into a container for my rice cooker. I lost it once, having to climb into a recycling dumpster to retrieve it. Today I went to…