Without any warning, they came and dug an enormous hole in our street two days ago, so big that it actually filled the street and blocked it completely. And it looks like today it is going to be filled in and paved over. The infill house up the street they have been building all winter is almost finished and the incredibly cheap and ugly over-height condo one block over was just finished in time for it to be occupied by drones before the winter.
And I just received an email from my snake in the grass city councillor [can I say that? [just did, ed.]] announcing a hip new urban development on an old contaminated place they have been dumping city snow on for years, the Bayview Yards
[Yes, that is “snow”.]
making the cheap neighbourhood to our north the latest greatest urban renewal since they invented setting your tax dollars on fire in front of you and then bragging about it.
Building new train lines, hip new buildings that will of course be “anchored” [what a bad metaphor: an enormously heavy object that we throw into the deeps] by an “Innovation Centre” [what else these days? everyone seems to want one] that will somehow “incubate” small innovative Canadian businesses by housing them in a former slum. [Sorry Mechanicsville, but I know people who grew up there, and have lived there for decades, and it just is the poorest neighbourhood this side of the tracks, and where one would go if one were looking to do something illegal, without having to stray too far. Like pick up an underage hooker if you are the most prominent heart surgeon in the region. Kid you not. Of course, she was a cop, and it was a sting and he was just stopping his car to chat with a pretty girl for reasons he couldn’t quite explain, but hey, sometimes they come and clean up even our swamp.]
But my complaint isn’t that Mechanicsville is going to get renewed; the place is ripe for renovation no doubt. My complaint is that they need to stop building all this new shit, because [you cannot go anywhere in my neighbourhood and it smells dreadful and there is a constant sheen of soot, which no one cares about because it is the commons and who talks like that these days, so that’s just a side whine] the infrastructure we have is falling down … I think I lost my sentence structure in the depths of my loathing for this problem.
For reasons I cannot fathom, economists seem to think on the whole that it is correct for a city to borrow money for capital projects, even when they are already in debt, and cannot afford to fix the things they already have. How can this be a good idea. Ah, I always forget the secret mantra: grow grow grow … if it grows we can tax it … if the tax base grows we can grow the tax base … grow grow grow … while we sleep, they are at it … grow grow grow … when you wake you can hear them … grow grow grow ….
I like living in a city, but this constant building for a future that can never arrive because it is the %$&#@&! future is ridiculous! The paint is barely dry on the last place they did this to in Ottawa, and I have a sneaking suspicion that they are trying to justify their light rail plans by doing all this along those lines. In for a penny, in for a pound. But everyone knows you have to have a monorail, even the Simpsons, with whom I shall leave you, because they say it all, in a song:
Because we’re twice as smart as the citizens of Shelbyville too!
Close the border and keep these fuckers down where they belong
or willie
or this. and you know it’s good. never, ever put me in a box. it’s all good.
Cool picture of the 4 horse, dude.
You just took this? Not even any buds on the trees yet… that i can see.
i was thinking i killed the thread. nice to see ya DN. yes, Spring is way late here.
Heaven?
In this 2nd age (eon) the 2 dimensions are separated from one another. They weren’t separated in the 1st age (that science calls prehistoric) and won’t be separated after this time either.
But during this flesh age (with souls making their one-time trip through the flesh) people (their flesh body) die, then they transition back to the other side, heaven. Pretty simple process really.
They are usually met by a loved one to welcome them home.
Many people in the process of dying will start talking to someone they knew but that has already gone on. People here can’t see who they are talking to, but they can.
One of my grandmother’s did this.
After reading how things go, from the Bible,… I figure that transitioning from there to here is like our funerals… everybody gets together to say good-bye. And then when a soul returns to Heaven it’s like a birth(arrival) with all their old friends and family getting together to make a big fuss “Welcome Home!!” just like we do here when babies are born.
The Bible is all about what happened in the first age, the war, the destruction of the age, and now this comparatively short 2nd age, of testing.
And modern science is fully consistent with with the same Prehistoric, then Ice Age, and now current time. Science can’t explain the dimension that it can’t now physically examine, but that’s understandable.
who am i to say? you just might have it all right DN.
it’s not done yet. here’s what we got so far. add, erase, paint over, this is your painting. have at it.
Thanks for the painting DP. i like it. slightly similar to the desert scene.
Desert view was from a more stable but conflicted position, where this one has some anxiety but is comparatively ‘clearer’? … ugh, no good single word fits.
just my .02 from only having looked at this one for the first time…
‘not done yet’ ? … or ‘not the final of these’ ?
i like ’em.
Your Desert View painting I had printed on a great big piece of paper at OfficeDepot and is here at home!
Good morning.
Sorry but as to heaven it all sounds like nonsense to me. Eternity for matter but my consciousness? bah … it is all anecdote … but I like you guys here on earth just fine … and as the bible, a collection of translations and transcriptions, says, sufficient unto the day are the evils thereof, so I don’t even understand worrying about something so ephemeral that is so clearly a wishful idea. Believe it when I see it is good enough for me. If it’s so great, why wait? Why the earthly suffering? Gammon and spinach designed to empty your wallet and control your mind. No soft shoe this morning.
Enjoy the life you know you have – that’s my motto.
The horses are stunning but what is this talk of mowing lawns? Are you trying to depress me further?
But I do have some good news that EO seems to have missed. Unfortunate happenings inside me caused me to turn on the television at around 3:30 this morning as I prepared to go outside with the dog, and it turns out that according to an informical brought to you by an obscure group but including the American Gold Council or some such, not only have people made millions investing in gold, including a 325% increase, but, and here is the kicker, the price may never be so low again! You could order government issued genuine gold coins, and even a former Nascar driver said it was a good idea.
And here was I wanting to buy Brazilian Butt Lift, butt they got me just in time.
Sorry about the heaven stuff but I really do feel quite strongly about it. And all successful religions are anti-women, so I am also kind of insulted by it all, but not sure if guys get it.
I am happy to discuss it all, just no point in starting off pretending I am more wishy washy than I am. But maybe I don’t have the spirituality gene that leads to others’ questing …
i find it interesting that most or even all religions have a lot in common. and it also has been proven that there are a lot of historical truths in them too. so i keep an open mind. i also have come to believe more in “God” by trying to wrap my head around quantum mechanics and string theory. but i believe that we all are part of God or have a part of what is God, so i do not necessarily believe in a God. i am not threatened at all by anyone’s beliefs, nor am i rigid in my own beliefs. no one can really know much at all.
sometimes i get lucky with the computer art. the one last night was a redo of the beach scene that had Xty’s toes in it. 🙂 i think i will do more to the foliage. i have found that my best stuff is usually all done in one sit, so i don’t think this one will be all that good. but i also find it really hard to critique my own stuff. i do it just for fun, and was surprised at the old place when a few people said they liked them.
i have grown to like the desert painting a lot myself DN. thanks, and i am glad you like it. i can’t believe you printed it out. that is the only painting of mine that i know of that exists outside of cyberspace. i guess it’s even more than eternal now. 🙂
see y’all later. i am getting outside. average weather around here this spring is just freaking awesome! but nice hanging with you. have a nice weekend!
It is a spectacular day here, and with the forecast looking ugly starting tomorrow, I plan to make the most of today. Later this afternoon, I plan on the scene looking a lot like this. Have a good one, all.
Very interesting article here about sleep, and how crucial it is to optimal performance, whether physical or mental.
The Doctor Who Coaches Athletes on Sleep
Maybe I should go take a nap.
zzzzzzzz
Here’s a nut cake from Toronto back in the 70’s
An interesting thing on my screen this morning. I stopped by 321gold.com, just to see what the dogs are yapping about these days. One of the top links was something from Casey Research, called “The Dollar Under Siege”.
Sounds pretty serious, so I go and read it. It’s the standard reinforcement of the “imminent catastrophe, better protect yourself with gold” sort of thing we’ve all seen a thousand times before. That horrible Fed is issuing a ton of funny money, and now foreigners are dumping it! Head for the hills! Creative salesmen sometimes call it “the end of the Keynesian experiment” or some such tripe.
Suppose you haven’t already seen this a thousand times before though. You eat this up, and it scares the pants off of you. Plus, your greedy side sees potential profit. What pushes your buttons better than the prospect of getting rich while the world burns? Then they’ll be sorry, by God, ha, ha, ha! You get to the end of the article and you know you need to buy some gold, follow the link to a video called “Meltdown America”, and take advantage of this terrific risk-free subscription offer from the fine people at Casey Research.
But then maybe, just maybe, you decide to look at a chart of the US Dollar. Your adrenaline is pumping and you want to see this “Siege” taking place right in front of your eyes! And you find…nothing. One could characterize this chart a number of ways, but “under seige” is hardly one that would come to mind. “Remarkable Stability” is more like it. Especially over the past 2+ years. Where is the “Siege”?
These two links don’t seem to mesh. Someone has an agenda, but which? The one written by a human being, with a pitch to sell you a subscription at the end? Or the automated price chart that doesn’t care whether you look at it or not?
Don’t worry. The snake oil salesmen have Plan B in place. It goes like this:
“Oh, it’s coming alright. It’s coming soon. Be afraid. Be very afraid. The only reason you don’t see it on that chart is because all prices are manipulated. That chart is a lie. Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes? Please take advantage of our introductory subscription offer, and get our free Special Report!”