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port alberni combines the sublime beauty of fish street signs with a backdrop of industry polution on a gargantuan scale.
unrelated: i fell and hurt my neck last night. today i endured it. there are about 3 clinics listed in the phone book for nanaimo, only one of them that i phoned accepted drop-ins, the other one was private and the third didn’t answer the phone. after work, katherine took me to the one nanaimo clinic that i could make contact with.
the clinic was a lot larger than any of the ones i had been to in victoria. i guess with fewer clinics it had to be. my neck had been feeling progressively better throughout the day and by the time we arrived, it was an irritation.
there was an hour and a half wait at the clinic, so i decided that it was probably better to sleep tonight and see how it felt in the morning. i’ll just skip the gym/swimming this evening.
as the media pumps fear and loathing into the masses on the six-o’clock news, the messages from Bowling For Columbine begin to resonate deeper and deeper. it’s pretty hard to watch this stuff, yet things are happening on the global stage that are impossible to ignore. it’s not the same watching the news as it was before though. flipping from news source to news source really reveals some very different views on the situation. one news reporter woman from CNN went so far as to say that CNN’s management might not appreciate her sentiments, but she believes that CNN is being too selective with what they are deciding to show. maybe she saw Bowling For Columbine, or maybe she just sees what Michael Moore saw from the inside. her own point of view.
i have trouble watching western-world television coverage by itself. as much as i don’t support what is going on, i dislike only hearing half of the story from the media. i feel that they should also be showing television stations from The Other Side so that people can really feel informed. yes, the stories will be different, and they will be slanted the other way, but doesn’t anyone else feel that from the two different points of view, it would probably offer any given person a better idea of what is actually going on?

Myself and my good friend Emily just made the sweetest chocolate cake.

jordan is really only high on life.
today i saw a mullet of unbelievable mulletude. yes, i got a good tabloid-like shot of it. it’s sweet, you’ll see.
i don’t much talk about work, but my concern from the beginning of the term has come back to haunt us all like i predicted it would. this concern would of course be: where are we going to have our end-of-term party?
well, we phoned acme. they have a cool downstairs lounge which we tentatively booked. the only problem is that it costs us $200 to reserve the space. the space they will use to sell us drinks and food. 35 of us. does this seem like a bit much to pay to anyone else?

last monday i had a walk around central nanaimo when the moon was bright and the clouds were few. before leaving the house, i grabbed le tripod and le canon. here is what it looked like…

shadow cast in moon light

this is one of the few clouds that i could get for a picture

mt. benson looms in darkness

the nanaimo parkway

the nanaimo parkway

the nanaimo parkway

the red rock along the side of the parkway

a tunnel for water and such. i wonder if any ogs live in there.

east wellington passes over the parkway

the city centre is not anywhere near the parkway..

weirdness happened at dufferin crescent .. i am not sure why this happened. does anyone have any idea?

the tree outside my house

we spent several years studying, and finally we figured out how to keep score

movement in still life

the pink ladies show us what they’re made of
yep we went bowling again last night. it was a dress-up err i mean down or something event. most of my team didn’t show up, so darryl the rocker went on his own and recruited two fine ladies by the names of merryl and sherryl to be on the team of *rryl.
the pictures above are all from the first time we went ten pin bowling. last night we went five pin bowling.. which i had more playing. ten pin would have been more fun had i known whut i was doing.
by the way .. if you have not commented on the post below.. time is running out. i will be doing a plus/minus count soon. some time. so yeah, comment!

okay okay, so these people really want to know, and i am not kidding. ryan thinks he’s [bleep] hot, and he asked if he could be posted on my website with the question being posed. so here it is. and paula the potential ninja, not wanting to be outdone by the bluntman, has asked to be transplanted from the last post into this post.
folks, it’s time to do your blog reading duty and answer the question.
here is our first contestant, ryan ‘the bluntman’ blunt. is he hot?

is he a hero or what?
and here is our second contestant, paula ‘the potential ninja’ kolisnek. is she hot?

a potential ninja, paula. you just don’t know.
finally, in the spirit of voting for things, what do you think the word ‘zope’ should stand for? paula challenges the current definition and encourages a movement to a definition closer to the colour of bluish purple that happens only at sunset. your thoughts please. if you ask me, that would be a rather zope colour. haha
okay folks, lets hear what you have to say. just bring it.

djing has been really fun lately, and i’ve had some of the best nights lately that i have ever played. well, most enjoyable at least. maybe i have changed the way i think. maybe the nights have been better. anyway, i’ve got photos to remember it all with! yeehaw! the two big dates i have played in march have been at the pressroom in nanaimo with brad copeland and hush in victoria with braeden.
the pressroom – nanaimo:

while i was djing, brad stood behind me and didn’t move for an hour straight. it was creepy.

morgan and dave

davin and emily large it

craig is assaulted by the music!

myself and morgan
hush – victoria:

here’s the proof that paula, emily and saila came down from nanaimo for the night

steve wants to know why you haven’t tried the BTCFS yet

swale rock
hush last night was awesome. there will be more about that and the press room in my next update, one that i am working on for tomorrow or later tonight.

andrew says go see dj arizona or else he’s going to kick your ass at bowling
yep so that means i’m going to be djing tonight at hush with braeden on the monthly ‘progress’ installment. booyah!
i’ve been running around all day and i’m still running around doing stuff i gotta do so if i haven’t called you and you expected to be called, CALL ME.

almost midnight on monday evening
yeah i did some more time exposure shots on monday night with a sky that refused to let many clouds in and a moon that blazed a cold blue light upon these red rocks at the side of the nanaimo parkway.
more later 🙂