Fridays are relatively slow around here and as far as I can tell that is the same for most blogs. Its like you have sometihng other than work on your mind that you do not need taking off your mind. If Fridays were between Monday and Wednesday, there would not be this lull. Me? I fill my hours. Right now I am devising urban plans for the new capital of Maritimia called Tantramar¹ City while I should be wasting time blogging for you. It's all about you, the 1600 people who come to gawk as if at a burning fast food restaurant at the end of a trip mall waiting for the cans of ketchup to explode one by one. Here are some early designs...
¹ See ordinance 4539-05, issued Saturday 30 April 2005.
I see a grand avenue dividing the arts and the bureaucracy
with a fairy castle for me...
A fixed link to Port Elgin, N.B.
A great big audio speaker to deliver community news
through the ground to the rest of the planet.
Comments
Arthur - April 29, 2005 10:18 am
You obviously forgot the Tims.
Brother Iain - April 29, 2005 10:41 am
What about the flyin' cars? The synthetic sushi? The melancholy Vangelis music?
Mike - April 29, 2005 11:04 am
Edmundston NB to Sydney NS in under 3 hours on the bullet train, or the TFAS (Train of Friggin' Awesome Speed). Sweet.
And, under an hour from Tantramar City to Halifax*.
* in his classic history of Halifax, "Warden of the North", Thomas Raddall points out that it was the custom to name a city after the family name of the high society folk who organized the expedition. In Halifax's case, it was named after Lord Halifax, who was head of the Board of Trade & Plantations at the time. His name, though, was George Dunk. So, I would move that Halifax be changed to "New Dunk City" under the new regime.
Alan - April 29, 2005 11:25 am
I think that the collection of bureaucractic office towers might be called Dunkville, which would also serve as a reference to the little visited or loved but remembered Dunk River valley of western-south-central PEI which was settled by the same folk of the Port Elgin area which are likely going to form the underclass of Tantramar City eeking out a meagre living from its bare contrete surfaces.
John - April 30, 2005 10:28 am
Port Elgin, N.B. -- what a town! We've got a family cottage ten minutes away and I have fond memories of visitng 'Mr. Cole's store' for groceries and 'Mrs. Cole's store' for all the hardware (and pretty much anything else) you could think of. Having too long been known as that last little town you could stop at before making the PEI crossing, an architectural wonder such as that bridge would go a long way towards making Port Elgin an attraction unto itself. Kudos!
Alan - April 30, 2005 10:35 am
Sadly and more than a little ironically, most of Port Elgin will be actually be destroyed for the construction of the fixed link to it from the recreated Tidnish district of the new Tantramar City. Mr. Cole's store will be somewhere under an eight-lane cloverleaf but will memorialized in a small plaque.
Misty - April 30, 2005 11:11 am
And you get paid to do WHAT, Alan?
Wasting time creating imaginary cities while on your employers payroll is no different than the crooks involved in the sponsorship scandal...stealing is stealing.
Alan - April 30, 2005 11:13 am
It's Saturday, Misty...and note the time of the post above. Good Lord.