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Spin, spin, spin...

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November 2009



Spin, spin, spin...

Friday, 20 November 2009 12:08 P GMT-08
 Have been blocked for the last two days and although I've read a lot of articles on current history have not seen anything that got my dander up enough to write about it.Then this mornings G&M hit my desktop and I saw that the Tories we

CONVERSATIONS

Wednesday, 18 November 2009 3:09 P GMT-08
  Coffee this morning at the Tongue with Kevin "F" and Ken "B". My writing this morning is blocked for some reason. We gossiped a bit and then returned to whatever it was that we were doing. When I got back to my digs I

EARTHQUAKES and FLATULENCE from the RIGHT

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 9:17 A GMT-08
H1N1 shot today and hope the grandkids and their Mom and Dad have had theirs. Some of my buddies in the Gastown curmudgeon society  are not getting the shots. Usually I don't get the yearly shot because I usually get sicker from the shot tha

IN THE LIARS ECHO CHAMBER

Monday, 16 November 2009 10:45 P GMT-08
   Another wet and windy morning. IN THE LIARS ECHO CHAMBERThe banks are not to be trustedtheir faith is not true.Like a fighting dog untrained and unrestrainedthey will soon bite the hand that feeds them.They chant the mantathe m

ECHO CHAMBER

Sunday, 15 November 2009 1:02 P GMT-08
  Am barely awake and the day is the usual winter grey with rain. Funny how that can seep through to your brain. There is a bit of a chill on the morning but I hesitate to get dressed or for that matter washed up.  Have just put my cof

FRIENDS

Saturday, 14 November 2009 9:23 A GMT-08
 FRIENDSThey are hereand then they are not.Some leave in the shadowssome choke and die on the spot.Their spirits leave their bodiesfor points unknownleaving behind their friends, andlovers and some children un-grown.We stand in the empty roomswi

HEADLINES

Friday, 13 November 2009 7:21 A GMT-08
CBC 1 on the sound track with all the problems of the "gropes" from the burbs wending their way into town on this windy and rainy morning.  Big headline in this mornings Globe and Mail about the H1N1 flu virus and the death toll across

In retospect

Thursday, 12 November 2009 9:41 A GMT-08
 The day after and I look to my own history, it seems like yesterday that I was presented with a small wooden crest celebrating my fiftieth anniversary of joining the army at nineteen years of age. Jimmy Carroll my comrade of many years joined a

REMEMBRANCE DAY 2009 the photos

Wednesday, 11 November 2009 3:16 P GMT-08
 With Bri at the Tongue       It didn't rain this year, about 20,000 in the crowd. IN PACE PARATUS JWL

Remberance Day 2009

Tuesday, 10 November 2009 10:18 P GMT-08
In Flanders Fields By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid t

DOES IT MATTER TO YOU?

Tuesday, 10 November 2009 2:52 P GMT-08
I've just spend the last three hours preparing tomorrows blog. I have borrowed the poems of several famous poets and submit one of my own to their storied ranks. My attitude toward this day is tinged with the sorrow that we have not evolved in ou

TEARS

Monday, 9 November 2009 8:10 A GMT-08
TEARSthe white noiseof a radioand iTuneson at the same timesurfing the internetfor factoids to supportan argumentno one can winwar, what is it good foris it only for the benefitof those who would profitably waste someone else's livesthey have fac

BRILLIANCE IS OCCASIONAL but STUPID IS FOREVER.

Sunday, 8 November 2009 5:52 A GMT-08
  Carrall and Pender   Outside an empty mall  While making my coffee this morning after I put the kettle on to boil, ground my coffee beans, listening to the hill billy hour on WWOZ, I absent mindedly put two tea sp

BRAIN SHAPING 101

Saturday, 7 November 2009 12:29 P GMT-08
Have just finished reading an e mail from John "F" where he refereed me to an article about how the internet was changing our brains and discouraging reading in depth for skimming and surfing for small snippets of information.I think the ma

CRASHED again

Friday, 6 November 2009 12:34 P GMT-08
My Blog site crashed again last night and after I got it back up my bookmarks had disappeared. I have managed to get a Neighborhood started with those sites I follow in Blog-city but this widget will not accept outside blog sites so will be putting d

WHERE DO WE LIVE?

Thursday, 5 November 2009 1:50 P GMT-08
 VIEW FROM MY STAIRWELL  ME TODAY  STREET SCENE IN WATERCOLOR  LOOKING AT ME LOOKING AT YOU  Read an article from the NYT about a couple who broke up over the stress of living through the renovations of a

WE WON'T BE FOOLED AGAIN, but don't bet on it.

Wednesday, 4 November 2009 8:15 A GMT-08
 A creative block, the doldrums of fall are here, there is less light and aside from street lights and the occasional un-shuttered window there is no natural light. Kinda suits my mood, there must be some bear in my DNA because I seem to want to

SHADOW OF A DOUBT

Monday, 2 November 2009 2:21 P GMT-08
 ON YOUR MARKS  GET SET  NO!  THE SHADOW OF A DOUBTThe coffee is buzzing in my earsas the world dissolves into a puddle of tears.Talking to my daughter the other dayabout her mother who had passed away.Things are sa

HALLOWEEN 2009

Sunday, 1 November 2009 10:05 A GMT-08
       Remember, daylight saving timeis over so roll over and have an extra hourof sleep. Ciao, JWL