Talking Turkey

Facts / Wonder / Work / It is What It Is / Neil and James take a walk on the dark side.  The fellows begin with a thorough airing of their beef with facts.  By way of “daddy’s war book” and portable internet, the two find consolation in Wordsworth and the possibility of undertaking a serious late-life pscychedelics binge.  From here, the boys explore the shift from innocence to experience that occurs when one makes the transition into the working world.  Weighing the rhetoric of Arcade Fire, Mac Demarco, and—quelle surprise—Wordsworth against the necessity of having to go work, the fellows find themselves surprised by facts after all.  Then, Neil follows James on one of his Guelph river rambles.  As James pushes further down the river he finds a series of dwellings that move from the innocence of a teenage hideaway to something far more fitting of the deep, dark woods.  Next, it is what it is—is it? It is not.  The boys visit this hea