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  • Crazy From The Heat

    Crazy From The Heat

    I wanted to quickly express my astonishment that my post about Davie Village received well over a thousand views in just a few days, a first-time occurrence for anything I’ve written on here. The majority of the traffic was visitors to my site–as opposed to subscribers–and only two things could possibly have brought that about:…

  • Brutalism in Vancouver.

    Brutalism in Vancouver.

    I am not referring to the job market, the cost of living, or the misanthropy of the residents in my particular neighbourhood, although any of those would be perfectly acceptable as material for this topic.  I am talking about an architectural movement that has been an object of mild fascination for me ever since I…

  • pearson airport barbarism: let’s just conclude this

    pearson airport barbarism: let’s just conclude this

    PRE-READING NOTE: This final entry has taken as much overdramatic, literary, morose license as the author saw fit.  However, no hyperbole was involved in the following account, because absolutely none was required.   So once the swab had circled the inside of both my nostrils and was packed neatly into a plastic baggie with my personal…