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vodka soda

Posted on June 24th, 2023 Be the first to comment

West Block

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lune sur le trottoir aussi

Posted on June 22nd, 2023 Be the first to comment

On Queen West near Elm Grove

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lune sur le trottoir

Posted on June 19th, 2023 Be the first to comment

Corner of King West and Dunn

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Clump

Posted on June 17th, 2023 Be the first to comment

The Rogers Centre making itself comfortable along the lake shore.

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Ontario Place gone just in time for summer, pt.2

Posted on June 16th, 2023 Be the first to comment

… continued from part 1

If you don’t understand the nostalgia that Ontario Place generates in geriatrics like me I invite you to take a wistful gander at the video below. But before you start kvetching about how, by today’s standards, the place sucks, I’d remind that this was the olden days and us kids were just happy as fuck not to have to walk 15 barefoot kilometers in the snow to school.

This video might leave you with the impression that Ontario Place could be the upswing but the reality is that its fate was sealed and loaded onto the S.S. Therme which sailed some time ago.

One the one hand, a spa-and-water-based attraction on the grounds is not that out of place. On the other, the promo material makes it look a little exclusive and pricey. The current admission price of FREE makes it hard to compete.

I suppose there’s always Trillium Park but with half of the unique and scenic path through Ontario Place now off limits, it just gives the small trail a melancholy feel.

Just in time for summer.

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Parkdale Operative

Posted on June 14th, 2023 Be the first to comment

From Jameson with love.

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Ontario Place gone just in time for summer

Posted on June 6th, 2023 Be the first to comment

Turns out that had I visited just last week I would’ve had some souvenir photos of Ontario Place but as usual the government quietly gave everyone the middle finger and fenced off most of the area “for the collective good” (paraphrasing mine).

So, in a very apropos way, this year’s winter photos from the western tip of West Island will be some of the last ones I have.

Continued in part 2 …

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/sectionb: BLACK OP

Posted on June 4th, 2023 Be the first to comment

… in which an unexpected solution to a few big problems presents itself.

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You scribble a few words about secret agents and “a guy” shows up

Posted on June 2nd, 2023 Be the first to comment

Sometimes when I tell people about these things, even if they’re being polite, I can see that they don’t really believe my “stories”.

The thing I was talking about earlier, for example … if I described the guy I spotted pacing back and forth in front of the “base of operations”, especially in the context of my writing, my audience would probably nod politely and wander off to find someone less “imaginative” to chat with. They might even be insulted, maybe not be so polite.

So I feel that trying to impress on people how much of the material in stuff like /sectionb is drawn from real life would be futile. I’d just get the same checked-out stare for my troubles.

But I get it. The world around me so often resembles a movie or a comic book that even I sometimes have trouble believing it.

The guy I surreptitiously surveilled in these pictures, for example … assassin? Cleaner? Who can tell? And who’s alive to be able to tell? Did I just do a bad by posting these photos? Am I now a marked man? Will more men like him come?

So many questions.

Naturally, after these were taken and after the guy finished rummaging around the trunk of his sleek and muscular jet-black Audi (naturally), he left two discarded gloves on the road and drove off.

Two!

The plot congeals …

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Chopin’ Twenty

Posted on June 1st, 2023 Be the first to comment

I know, my AFK time has been excessive as of late but as usual it doesn’t mean that I’ve been idle. I had some new adventures, got busy with some undercover work (more on that later), and stuck my fingers into far too many pies.

Take the thing above, for example. Figured I’d try something different but new directions always come with a price. Don’t even get me started about inflation!

Anyway, this tune is supposed to be Chopin’s Nocturne No.20 in C Sharp Minor … or at least what’s left of it.

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