FUCK THE PRC Government, Fuck the PRC and its support of the genocide in Darfur and its own people, Fuck the Olympics, Fuck Displacement and Fuck you if you disagree with me. I just had to work all day at a children's summer camp where it was olympics theme day. Fuck all you whitebread fucks in north van who will never know suffering and will drive ( Read more... )

Wow, I am literally drowning in textbooks. So many fun things coming up (Under the Volcano, Club Raccoon?) and so much studying to do. Luckily I have some coping strategies, including a house full of extremely pleasant vegetarian women in east van tomorrow to cook me some food and play flash cards together. And hopefully a little people watching, ( Read more... )

What a trip. We camped out on a mossy cliff overlooking the Fraser about 5 km north of yale, which was amazing. The First Nations were nice enough to let us camp on their land, after we promised not to do any fishing or archaeologizing. But we should have broken the trip up into two days, because we're all exhausted.


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I found a canoe!!! 17.5' long and 70 lbs with fiberglass with paddles for about $500.00! Might buy it tonight. I had a shitty heavy flatwater canoe for a few years but this is gonna be the real thing! A river canoe, a high quality Clipper!

This past weekend was spent at Rollie's house in Kamloops, relaxing on the covered back deck, petting Bonita (Leo died earlier this year), reading lots of books, picking fruit off of the trees in the back yard, floating down the South Thompson river in a small flotilla, enjoying the hot dry air and the sagey smell, eating some nice food made by Max ( Read more... )

I'm drinking coffee too late in the evening. I'm going to be awake til too late now. It was a rough day at work and I hate my boss. I'm going to feel better next week by doing some 4x5 pinhole photography in beautiful Lynn Valley. I've never cross-processed a large-format piece of slide film. I wonder if it is possible ( Read more... )

This week is better than last week. Except my van won't start. Not that I need it to function until August 27 though. I think the battery might be dead. engine makes chk-chk-chk noise when I try to start it. Got another one in the back so no problem. hopefully the battery is the problem. It's going to winter back on the vancouver east side, ( Read more... )

So we went to the re-showing of CHRONICLE at little mountain on friday, went home, napped, and at 3:00 am, we woke up and went to the art gallery to check out the all-night KRAZY show with its roster of performers. But apparently it got crashed by granville street assholes and ruined by alcohol, and it was closed down when we got there ( Read more... )

Into the Wild was a great movie. Not the "rich kid goes on walkabout and starves to death" part, but the "slab city" part. There was an enormous amount of self-pity in the flick (from the sister's POV) that I had a problem with.

I am looking forward to going to Slab City myself one day.