Saturday, October 30, 2010

Fall colours in the courtyard


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Sunday, October 24, 2010

The second oldest profession

Outside The Bourbon Country Cabaret in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, in the pouring rain off an alley in a crappy parking lot, a guy is actually selling car audio speakers out of the trunk of his car.

This entire market, supply chain and retail marketing still exists.

Its stunning but also a little comforting.
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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Chocolate avalanche

Touring the Urban Fare chocolate display and enjoying a huge pile of Callebaut chunks.
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All good

Slip sliding away.
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Sweeny Todd

Ecstatic about his new coif.
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Friday, October 22, 2010

On the train turntable at Roundhouse

On the way in from the airport.

Charlie riding in style.
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Swings and roundabouts

Getting Charlie swingin on the way to our house ... Fight that jet lag.
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Rellies

Off to the airport to pick up my sister and nephew from the airport. Bringing the boy back on the Canada Line because he likes trains.

I have to admit that I'm pretty excited to see him. He can walk and talk now and is almost a human being. I have purchased a very belated birthday present for him and, dare I say it, am actually looking forward to playing with him.

I may finally be turning into an uncle. More surprisingly, I may be giving a small child more than a passing glance.

Check this space on Monday to see how quickly this warm feeling fades.

Insiders are giving it very short odds.
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Wendel's cookies on display

D&D by her large Wendel's cookies display at Urban Fare in downtown Vancouver.
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Commuting home

It is really the simple things that remind you how fortunate you are.
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Sunday, October 03, 2010

Night sight

Always get a slight and somewhat childish pleasure out of being sober around large groups of drunken strangers. Wrapping up four nights of gigs in the suburbs at a bar and saw people in various stages of intestinal distress, overindulged duress and drunken arrest on my way from the suburban gig to home, downtown.

I've recently seen the all-too-real and grisly aftermath of youthful overestimation of one's own skills behind the wheel; and therefore I thank the constabularies of Pitt Meadows, Coquitlam, Burnaby and Vancouver for demonstrating their skills last night: dealing with our nation's weaknesses in the wee hours of the morning.

They are our city's social sanitation engineers:

Dealing with bad decisions smeared across our streets.
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