Lisan jutras bio

“Charlie Schmidt, “Keyboard Cat” (2007)

At a bar the other night, a man said to me, “I don’t get Keyboard Cat.” We had met by accident.

I was supposed to meet some friends but they had forgotten about our date.

Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, in pursuit of the realities of American public education, signed up as a substitute teacher in a Maine public school.

I was feeling self-conscious because all the other hipsters were being groovy in clusters of two or three, and I was checking the non-existent text messages on my phone. A man with a beer in hand asked me for change so he could play a tabletop video-game.

I gave it to him; he treated me to a round of Galaga. We got to talking and soon enough we were joined by a friend of his, a guy who used to work at a bookstore near my house.

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Lisan Jutras is a writer and therapist living in Toronto.

Lisan Jutras is a writer and therapist living in Toronto.

Lisan Jutras completed a literary journalism residency at the Banff Centre in 2012.

Lisan Jutras is an erstwhile insomnia sufferer.

It was this guy who told me he didn’t understand Keyboard Cat.

There are some artworks in life that you understand on a purely gut level. You might not be able to explain their relevance, but you do know that they express a deep truth of existence.

So it is with Keyboard Cat.

“It’s an anthem of failure,” I said.