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It seems this weekend’s theme is Large Metal Cylinders Hurtling Through the Air.

Rocket, Man
(South of Cambie Bridge, Vancouver, 18 July 2009)

The Future is Our Responsibility

The Future is Our Responsibility
(Under Granville Bridge, Vancouver, 18 July 2009)

V.P.L.

Vancouver Public Library (3PM, 14 July 2009)

The Pursuit of Happiness

I Can Stop Any Time I Want, I Just Don’t Want To
(Granville Island, Vancouver, on the Occasion of My 53rd Birthday)

The Flat Earth

Twenty-five years after its release, Thomas Dolby’s The Flat Earth is still as haunting (and remarkable) as ever. I’ve been listening to all of his back-catalogue for a few days now and it’s as fresh as the first time I heard it, so long ago. From a live performance in Chicago, 2006:

Video: Thomas Dolby [...]

Rise of the Machine

Yikes.

HPD from YVR

Right about now, people in eastern North America are starting to wend their way toward Lesbian and Gay Pride Day parade routes. Champ and I last night watched the Toronto festivities — on the CITY-TV feed we’ve been curiously able to receive out here on Canada’s west coast — with a mixture of wistful displacement [...]

I Call “Viagra + Poppers”

…and two 13-year-olds.

How is this sad? Sure, I liked Thriller, too. BUT. HE. GOT. CHILDREN. DRUNK. AND. FUCKED. THEM.

(Mourn the talented kid who died 20 years ago, instead).

Why Hasn’t God Destroyed Canada Yet?

Webcomic artist Patrick Farley nails the American same-sex marriage debate in graphical form:

Patrick Farley on America’s Same-Sex Marriage Debate

More evolved societies — the ones which considered the pink arguments somewhere between “wrong” and “ludicrous” before granting full marriage equality to gays and lesbians — must look at the U.S. flavour of this debate as [...]

So Below

So Below (Vancouver, 4PM, 16 June 2009)

YVR5: The Last 23

Thank Management
(Yonge & Bloor Subway Entrance, 9AM, 12 June 2009)

I’m in the last 23 hours of the 23 years I’ve spent in Toronto.

If I had a soul, I’d say the past few days have been good for it, and there are a couple of people about whom I’m specifically talking here. They know who [...]

Moving Hell, Phase II

Packing completed at 8AM this morning, stuff-removal in progress. Only 1270 of the 3763 things which could go wrong have gone wrong so, hey, WIN.

A Move (10 June 2009)

Fingering Fox

Laying blame. Hard. Where it belongs.

Olbermann:

Video: Keith Olbermann Fingers Bill O’Reilly, Bernard Goldberg and Fox News as Terrorists

I can’t go near comments sections online today. The evil perpetrated by Dr. George Tiller’s murderer is eclipsed by the stupid, hateful, pig-ignorant, seething, antediluvian, subhuman christianists who climb over themselves to justify, rationalize and even applaud [...]

Miasma

My Asthma (Toronto, 30 May 2009, 7PM)

(Soundtrack: Henry Cow, Leg End)

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll & Graffiti (’80s Artifact Edition)

A (Keith Haring’s) Pop Shop Bag

Ian Dury’s Manifesto (1977 buttons acquired in 1980)