31 January 2006 – 11:32 pm
Friday 31 January 1986
Happy Birthday! Mine. Nobody tried to spank me.1 Fun at night.2 Packed the car for gunshow. Next day.3
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1.Getting spanked on your birthday was the tradition where I grew up, in addition to having butter put on your nose.
2. I don’t remember any of this actually. Oddly enough what I didn’t write down [...]
22 January 2006 – 12:15 pm
Wednesday 22 January 1986
Went to party1. Danced with M2. Enjoyed it. Didn’t mind doing it anymore.
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1. This was someone’s birthday party up the road from where I lived.
2. M was my girl next door, although she too lived up the road. We didn’t have neighborhoods like one does in a suburb or a city. We [...]
19 January 2006 – 9:56 pm
Sunday 19 January 1986
Went to see my Grandpere. He said this spring he???d teach me his tradition.1
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1. I sat in the same chair, at the same desk at my grandmother’s house this past summer. The kitchen table is still to the left, the books on the shelves above the desk the same ones that were [...]
18 January 2006 – 7:17 pm
Saturday 18 January 1986
I had my birthday party early. Lots of fun. Got games, comics, slingshot. Had a bon-fire.1
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1. This bon-fire was held in the backyard. A Saturday night bon-fire in mid-January is one of life’s pleasures and I miss it now in my city dwelling days. The slingshot I remember the most fondly and [...]
14 January 2006 – 5:00 pm
Why am I so cranky when it comes to the art-world? Well, for example, John Ralston Saul’s ‘Images of Immortality’ a chapter in his 1992 book, Voltaire’s Bastards, comes across as the perfect art history, an overview from whence we’ve come, and relevant to our technological lives. Yet I began art school four years [...]
12 January 2006 – 7:16 pm
Sunday 12 January 1986
Made decision that I’d have my party early.
6 January 2006 – 11:37 pm
Monday 06 January 1986
First day of school after Christmas vacation. One of the best days I had.
5 January 2006 – 11:28 pm
http://goodreads.ca/rss/06w01-3.html
5 January 2006 – 11:09 pm
The Current had a discussion this morning on political vision, and why there doesn’t seem to be any during this election campaign, or for that matter, ever. Which just reminds me that the current crop of politicians in Ottawa are old men without ideas. The Current played clips of what are usually considered political visionaries [...]