Posts Tagged: Kingston
The Royal Tavern
Posted by on Saturday, March 27, 2004 in - 10 comments
My days of bar hopping are long past. The five and a half years of rural life which wrapped up a year ago did its best to kill the habit geographically as did the advent of kids. There are, however, things that are habits and things that are personality traits and I think that the architecture of …
Men's Clothing
Posted by on Thursday, March 25, 2004 in - 8 comments
Across from this view on Brock is this one - a men's shop in an asymmetrical high contrast 1885 brick building. I don't buy clothes at men's shops. They exude things I can't pull off - style, tailoring, funny swirly design sweaters for $165.00. I also have 37 inch arms that none of these shops can …
Secret Places
Posted by on Wednesday, March 24, 2004 in - 1 comment
Here is another good secret places sort of blog, zine, personal web page: Infiltration from the city Canada loves to hate, Toronto. From the ethical statement: • “...I don't think there is anything wrong with urban exploration, at least not the type described here and on 95 percent of the other …
Green
Posted by on Monday, March 22, 2004 in - 1 comment
Luther Show
Posted by on Sunday, March 21, 2004 in - 2 comments
The Luther Wright and the Wrongs set up before the show • So I went to the Luther Wright and the Wrongs on Friday at the Grad House. McAuslan's St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout on tap all evening. Dandy. • I guess you would call the band "alt country". Alt is a funny word as it it meant to mean" …
Scandal Solved
Posted by on Sunday, March 21, 2004 in - 1 comment
This movie was really just for Jon and Wally - a VIA intercity train leaving Kingston Station. A real hog of a file at 12.5 Mbs. • Then I realized I had hit upon something. I found the sponsorship money! At 50 million a "Canada" sign or Canadian flag - surely that is market value - it's all …
Confused
Posted by on Saturday, March 20, 2004 in - 4 comments
I suspect this is something of a classic street corner for Queens University students. This intersection sits in the heart of the campus and we passed it at 1:23 am last night after watching Luther Wright and the Wrongs at the Grad House with Nate and friends. I may post a review later. I need …
Sacred Smokestack
Posted by on Thursday, March 18, 2004 in - 1 comment
I walked past this chimney the other day behind the Grand Theatre on Brock. It is odd because it is brick and fairly ornate but attached to a building which is neither. The little metal roof thingies to the side appear entirely non-functional. • I have had the occassion to look at a title search …
Day Off
Posted by on Friday, March 12, 2004 in - 4 comments
The Funky Monkey, empty space and Treasure Cove Antiques, Brock, half a block NW of King • A day off. I took a day off with the intention of going to the Toronto Zoo enroute to Owen Sound and great-granny's but we are having one of those days where a cold front passes through southern Ontario …
The Size of Places
Posted by on Monday, March 8, 2004 in - leave a comment
I remember during the Bosnian war in the mid-90's being amazed at the small scale of the places involved in our news. I would listen at 7:00 pm to Hrvatska Radio from Croatia on the shortwave and try to follow where Canadian troops from my then neighbouring base CFB Petawawa, some my clients, were …
