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locally our city government is making sure that the poor are driven from their neighbourhoods against their will, to make a quick buck during two weeks of Winter Olympics in 2010 – residential hotels closed and upgraded for tourists or demolished for other projects and no new affordable housing even in numbers to replace what was destroyed – Saferide program relocates vagrants out of the area with no resources when they are dumped outside the city’s transit boundaries Shame!

To the Last Drop

From the day I had “grown-up” thoughts running in my head, perhaps from the time I was 12 I had know this would happen. I can’t say why that is. In the background of every decision I had made and every new circumstance I found myself in, in the back of my mind, this is what I knew would be the eventual outcome. The only real mystery was

the rest at: http://afinemes.com/wpress/2007/03/02/to-the-last-drop/

Re editing an animation I did last year (when I was not as adept at making them) I put this together, and as the full twelve days are not just over and orthodox Christmas is still not here yet I thought I’d post this one here. Consider it a small gift dedicated to all the creative brains at work in Lemuria.

the full all out video, with soundtrack, versions can be seen at www.gooboobtube.com and soon on my website

I braved the cold and snow to take my new camera out and see what I could do. Complete with tripod (no chance taken on shaky hands. You can see more of these on my Flickr site

More snow, all last night, and all day today, it just kept falling, a clean white sound suffocating blanket of fresh snow. Few wandered out. It not being walker or cane friendly weather, I stayed in at gazed at it through the window, although briefly I did go out to walk my dog. I negotiated with extra cookies to get him to come back in. He could have played in it hours longer. The city is ill prepared for so much snow, and most stayed home. It is lovely thought, especially in the pre dawn hours, then to walk the dog is ideal, acres of virgin snow and just us and the stars out in it. The sound of the city dampened and my happy Belvedere making like a snow plough with his nose.

aletta

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