Posts Tagged: Kingston
The Damn Inaccessibility Of The Archives
Posted by on Thursday, July 28, 2011 in - 1 comment
Roaming around the 238 posts about Kingston, I found this image of the moon over Elevator Bay. I had forgotten I had taken it, let alone posted it back in 2005. This is the 5,334th post at Gen X at 40 as it turns out and there is no way I could recall all of them - on top of over 2,000 at the beer …
Last Night From The Roof Of City Hall
Posted by on Thursday, June 9, 2011 in - leave a comment
Royal Military College's Arch Ceremony 2011
Posted by on Friday, May 20, 2011 in - 1 comment
One of the things I love most about my town is the ability to have met and get to know some folk at Canada's Royal Military College. It sits across the harbour from my window at work and the fourth year cadets organize the annual charity vintage base ball game. Today was the final day of their …
Friday Bullets For The Big Ball Games
Posted by on Friday, May 6, 2011 in - 2 comments
What a run of attention getters. Taxes due. Election. Royal wedding. Osama killed. And what is most on your mind? The Royal Military College annual vintage base ball games, of course. This year, the Kingston St. Lawrence takes on RMC at the historic Cricket Fields in Kingston, site of actual …
Friday Bullets For My New Slogan "Time For A Change!"
Posted by on Friday, March 18, 2011 in - 1 comment
Growing up in Atlantic Canada, one had to expect an election somewhere in what no one called "Canada's New England" every year or so. Inevitably, one party or another ran on the slogan "Time For A Change!" mainly because, if elected, they were going to administer exactly the same as the bums they …
Friday Bullets For The Slide To Christmas
Posted by on Friday, November 12, 2010 in - leave a comment
Halloween and Remembrance Day provide an odd juxtaposition of dark thoughts, the first fantasy and the latter all too real. A huge turn out downtown yesterday for a number of ceremonies including the town's famous dueling pair of events that take place within a couple hundred yards of each other …
Friday Bullets For A Week Off In July
Posted by on Friday, July 16, 2010 in - 1 comment
It's been a weird week off. Chopped up. I even had to go to work but that was my fault. Didn't check the schedule. Picked the wrong week. Assumed. But we carried on. A cold moved through but we carried on. Started in fine style at the Dinosaur BBQ, too. Vintage base ball coming up on Sunday. Spent …
The 2nd Annual RMC Vintage Base Ball Tournie Is On!
Posted by on Thursday, April 29, 2010 in - 1 comment
Big news just now as we have our second umpire for this Saturday's vintage base ball tournament signed up. You have to get imports for these things, you know. One Rochestarian and one Sackets Harbor-on-ian. Dandy. Steve, up there with the bat, will be there, too. We should have two games this year …
Ten Days To Christmas And I Feel....
Posted by on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 in - leave a comment
...not all "Olympics yes!" The torch came through town last evening and the road show was both impressive and cheesy. All Coke and bank and Hudson Bay clothes branding, all 27 minutes of razzle (and even a bit of dazzle) before the show left town. Is it supposed to wind me all up for February when …
Our Collective Family Record Of Slavery
Posted by on Thursday, October 8, 2009 in - leave a comment
I have the TV on in the mornings. It drones on and if I am lucky and the kids sleep in past 4:45 am, I get to pay half-attention to the CBS Morning Show to learn about all the real news. And this morning there was a short piece about the genealogy of Michelle Obama which told about the five …
