Chris DeWolf writes a delightful paean to the charms of crossing the railway tracks.
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I was briefly flummoxed this morning to get a request from the 2nd Amendment Shooting Supply for a link exchange. They wanted to have a link from my apartment hunting page listed on the right (if you’re reading this on the blog page itself, that is).
It took a minute for the other shoe to drop.
Is it 2½ season yet?
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It’s blowing up all over that Montreal hasn’t allowed Pamela Anderson to launch her new PETA poster here. It can’t hurt that the story gives legitimate media an excuse to run the image of Anderson shown above.Actually, it’s hardly a ban: the city simply refused to participate in the launch, on the grounds that the image was too sexist. Not too sexy.
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Urbanist Jean-Claude Marsan has a proposal for a serious beach park in the area shown above on Google Maps, unless I’m mistaken. (I wonder whether he wrote this piece before the oil spill.) One thing that would be needed: a bus and boat navette from Angrignon terminus.
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naftee
I’m assuming he means the side facing the river.
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Hmmm. I’m confused about the area he talks about. He says accessible by the pedestrian bridge following the Champlain. It is quite a far distance to go all the way to the Sainte Catherine lock from the Champlain.
And the oil spill happened inside the seaway, I would assume we wouldn’t be swimming on that side!
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August is archaeology month in Quebec; Montreal is apparently old enough that there are relics of earlier ways of life to be found if you dig. The interesting-sounding access to the city’s archaeological reserve mentioned in the article opening is held on only one day.
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The Shriners are to construct a new hospital alongside the MUHC superhospital at Vendome. Metro has some sketches.
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The dangerous giant hogweed plant has been found growing at Angrignon Park. This is a doozie: its sap can blind you and can blister and scar your skin. It resembles other common local umbelliferous plants like the ubiquitous cow parsnip, except that it’s much, much bigger.
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Saint-Viateur is a street we all love, but it has its troubles too.
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Spacing has a nice piece today on the city’s best alleyways.
blork 15:00 on 2010/07/16 Permalink
Condemning this ad for being sexist implies a pretty retrograde definition of “sexist.” Heck, nobody’s complaining about those Old Spice ads with that muscle hound wearing only a towel. The “sexy = sexist” thing is so 1989. We’ve come a long way since then.
Atlas00 01:44 on 2010/07/17 Permalink
Blork’s analysis is incorrect. The image is considered sexist because it equates women with pieces of meat.
admin 11:33 on 2010/07/17 Permalink
Of course it equates women with meat – it equates people = animals = meat and tries to make you rethink eating animals based on this image. Using a sexy blonde is chiefly to arrest the eye: our society values sexy blondes more than most other people. I have to give Anderson props for being willing to use her image in this way to support something she believes in.