Midnight Poutine has been running a “metro roulette” series for some time where they review metro stations (they’re not the only ones, it turns out). I remember reading the <a href=”http://www.midnightpoutine.ca/city/2006/06/metro_roulette_jarry/” target=”_blank”>Jarry</a> entry some time ago and lsat night for some reason had occasion to point Carrie to it. The author does a quick walkabout …
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The Phonautograph Gets Its 15 Minutes. . .
. . .and I ride its coattails, or help it, or something. The story is now making it’s way around AP. I talked to an LA Times reporter yesterday and have a few quotes in their story, which also has a picture of the device. The quotes are of mixed quality and the guy appears …
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Capsule Reviews of Expensive Restaurants (from a vegetarian perspective)
I promise that this isn’t going to turn into an annoying foodie blog. It’s just that my life has been consumed lately with matters that can’t be blogged about, like a search. But one of the plus sides of interviewing job candidates is the opportunity to go out to expensive restaurants that I might not …
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5-à-7s and Vegetarianism: Two Montreal Stories
Two responses to the last post merit a post of their own: 1. David asks “What’s a 5-à-7?” The simple answer: a cocktail party that occurs between the hours of 5 and 7pm. Except people seem to mostly drink wine at these things. Spelled cinq-à-sept and pronounced by anglos everywhere as something closer to “Sanka …
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The Visual Culture of Frontenac at Rachel
There was much left unsaid in the blog in the past year, but I also left out some good pictures. So, in the spirit of the real estate series that told you what happened after it happened, there will be some pics coming your way in the next few days. If I have sometime intelligent …
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A Couple Montreal Moments
1. The “Wile E. Coyote” Moment. Although Slavoj Zizek apparently prefers those moments when Wile E. Coyote has gone over a cliff but not yet discovered he is about to fall, I prefer moments of sheer, deliberate denial. In the climactic moment of his run-in with Bugs Bunny, he is inside a train car, praising …
Real Estate Saga: Part I
In June of 2006, Carrie drove by a sign in our neighborhood that said “large loft for sale” (well, it probably said “A Vendre: Grande Loft” or somesuch) and had a phone number. She called the agent to inquire. It wasn’t very large by our midwestern standards. But the agent inquired — how big of …