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Teetering
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My phone is on it's last legs - and the camera as well. So apologies for the quality of the pictures.
If you fall over - you pass out - and the high is wasted.
1 down, 2 to go.
Shooting up on West Pender. Open heroin use here has about as much stigma as smoking a joint in the Kootenays.
Moving all of your worldly possessions in a couple of garbage bags on to a new encampment.
And the debris. It's doubtful you could find a 10 yard radius within a mile of East Hastings that wasn't contaminated with something similar.
The entire reddit thread of "Took Too Much" https://www.reddit.com/r/tooktoomuch/ could be filmed here in a day.
Bill Bryson - In A Sunburned Country
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I enjoyed this. Not, perhaps, the "Travel Classic" the reviews made it out to be - but it's thorough, well researched, introduces you to a variety of places, people & histories that otherwise I might have had no interest in - so in this it succeeds.
And Australia's treatment of the Aboriginals rather mirrors our own failings with the Native Canadians.
Easy reading, thick book, lots to think about - only criticism that I wasn't enormously sympathetic to the authors' point of view - but that is a matter of our difference in personalities, not necessarily a flaw on his behalf. Personally, I would have liked a little more information on the Geology of it all...
A Notice about Picking Up Your Dog Shit
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Not far from East Hastings someone has posted a notice about picking up your dog shit, with a list of the illnesses that can be spread by dog feces.
And you look around, at the excrement that puddles and melts in the piss-washed streets, at the vomit and blood, phlegm, expectorate, discarded needles, trash and piles of discarded clothing and empty food containers, the aroma's, always ripe, and you think to yourself that maybe - just maybe - somebody is missing something...\
And then the penny drops. This "Pick up your dog shit" - it's the beginning of the gentrification of East Hastings.
The Good Soldier Schweik - Jaroslav Hašek
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An amusing, satirical anti-war novel, written in 1921 about a brilliant idiot's enthusiastic adventures in the First World War.
Overly long, but on occasion laugh-out-loud funny. And, as with any good satire - its' not that the author has confabulated, it's merely that he has that ear for the absurdity of existence. This was - I strongly suspect - one of the principal inspirations behind "Catch-22".
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