While this is a mute point as I intend on purchasing, and can afford neither, I realized today that for about the same price as a 5 day ski Vacation at Kicking Horse mountain, you can buy a nikon DSLR (D50 with kit lens). Which would you rather have? You can change the object and […]

Read More On Different sorts of purchases

I’m thinking of going up to grouse one day this weekend. Anyone interested?

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Jan 10th 2006 – http://lyotards-pants.livejournal.com/31547.html

Read More By the way, this whole “nation debate”? I called it!

As we all read on the cover of the province today. This article is very confused. I will refute it, however, by restating its title. “There are only two meanings of nation”. In fact, there is only one meaning of nation, but this meaning is split into two directions. The first sense is a people, […]

Read More “Let us not be mistaken, there are only two meanings of nation”

would be adviced to visit this album: http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlesbodi/sets/72057594097749031/

Read More Everyone who likes industrial photography

Last night I dropped in on the Emily Carr Circus (aka pub night). More than anything, it reminded me of the dirty house parties (at least some overlap in the crowd), it had the same ultra experimentalist, radically futuristic scent. The DJ was great, and the band that played were too loud to enjoy, but […]

Read More Emily Carr knows how to throw a party

An attempt to find Olivia’s concert was a botch, but I ended up at a marvolous coffee house gathering every thursday at 730 at the VPL brang at Main and 23rd. I will be attending future thursdays. “In the place my wonder comes from there, I find you”

Read More An excellent evening

Cake http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chocolate-zucchini-cake-i/detail.aspx I’ll tell you how it turns out.

Read More Just put it in the oven

The montreal police consider (but do not develop an official policy) concerning what to do when Hasidic Jews refuse to speak to a female police officer – whether a male police officer should be called in to act in her stead. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061115/hasidic_cops_061115/20061115?hub=Canada Is it an issue of cultural sensitivity? Yes, it’s a symptom of the […]

Read More Don’t be offended, it’s just systematic misogyny

First day at Cypress (opening day). Skiing on november 16th! Half price, but less than half the lifts, less than 1/10th of the runs open. However, conditions look promising – soon the whole mountain will be open. On the way bakc, I noticed a large black spot on the city scape. Wait a minute – […]

Read More Skiing and the Archival Storm