INTERNATIONAL STUFF 1836

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Frank Kalder

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ummm that wasn't a dress, more like the absence of a dress but kind of neat not sure if it's aggressive, either. provacative, lovey, tied and bound yet free, maybe?

i really like the one dress, and would select it for work, and the other would be a first selection for a party. just beautiful stuff

ich glaube that this is a good direction. i decided today that glaube and globe are etymologically related because our heads are round globes. i am probably the crazzzeee

she looks cute, but i would have guessed she was trying to emulate xena the warrior princess rather than a biergarten madchen

here's some more from the journal, turning back to the squid discussion about vancouver and victoria.

If you are in downtown Vancouver, there is a art museum there right around the hotels.

they have really fascinating stuff about the natives from that area. But there was this crazy white woman emily carr who went to live amongst them and she was this rich white lady and she just didn't care, she was a kook and she preserved a lot of their heritage by painting and drawing them.

They mostly died out as a result of tb and stuff like that brought to them by the infamous white disease ridden blanket brigade. You haven't seen totem poles like these before.

Also, the national rock of canada is something called an ammolite which is really a fossilized snail or something like that. You will see them in jewelry all over the place.

There is a lot of music and jazz and art all over the city. I went to a restaurant called Bukowski's, which was incredible. bukowski was an american poet. a semi biographical movie of his life was released last year

My friend was a waiter there. Though you are apt to nail a good restaurant any where you go there.

They also have a real nice aquarium in the city built into their city park. at the entrance to stanley park, there is a statue of one of my favorite poets ever, yeats.

There is a trolley that takes you on a loop that is well worth it if there is nice weather. We had rain rain clouds. so to get out of the rain, we went into the aquarium to look at water

the pictures here reload,too, but no one is anywhere as pretty as the alexis rotators, not even the starfish

because of the rain, we did not get a chance to do the loop. But the aquarium is nice because unlike most zoo-aquariums they make a big deal about the balance of intruding on animals lives vs preserving them from extinction. I liked their atbreastude.

If you go to the rich place, by ferry, they have this harbor mall, just like in baltimore with a cool food court.

victoria by contrast is a tiny island so performing arts are not as common. Victoria has only very small very typical house bands. They are mostly in british style pubs, but most of these have real good food. like squid, local beer and several local ciders. we stayed at the empress, a most awe inspiring hotel. apparently, this is still a very active harbor, and the view of this harbor and hotel is the first thing incoming pbuttengers primarily from asia see.

They have posh restaurants buttociated with the hotels, mostly like Tea Rooms but if you want to do high tea at the Empress, people mostly say they like it. the tea service in this picture is characteristic of the atmosphere of the high tea.

I did not want to pay for icky sandwiches and pastries. though others enjoy such things. I would stick with the pubs.

But it is fun to walk through the hotels to see the big tea urns and the american tourists pretending to be British. The hotels expect the walk through traffic because they are old and historic.

mk5000

"Ignorantas goldfish in a plastic bag, as mayflies mistaking the road for the river, we buttured one another,keeping up our spirits as we had long been taught."--Richard Hoffman's "Gold Star Road":