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On Citytv while away from the city
“These are pretty much the biggest waves I have ever seen”
“Just massive”
“One of the most awesome experiences on Earth”
“No one ever returned”
Omar Khayyam
We travelled far and wide
over desert wastes,
and journeyed
toward the horizon.
We never met anyone
coming from other direction.
When once they set out
on that path,
no one ever returned.
Translated by Juan Cole
from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 129
David Guetta – Titanium (CAZZETTE’s Ant Seeking Hamster Mix)
(pic of the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain by * Jerry * via Flickr)
Sia:
You shout it out
But I can’t hear a word you say
I’m talking loud not saying much
I’m criticized but all your bullets ricochet
You shoot me down, but I get up
I’m bulletproof, nothing to lose
Fire away, fire away
Ricochet, you take your aim
Fire away, fire away
You shoot me down but I won’t fall
I am titanium
You shoot me down but I won’t fall
I am titanium
Cut me down
But it’s you who have further to fall
Ghost town, haunted love
Raise your voice, sticks and stones may break my bones
I’m talking loud not saying much
I’m bulletproof, nothing to lose
Fire away, fire away
Ricochet, you take your aim
Fire away, fire away
You shoot me down but I won’t fall
I am titanium
You shoot me down but I won’t fall
I am titanium
I am titanium
I am titanium
The last sentence.
“And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.”
Legal Jargon
Yesterday, before DJ Markoshi got his chill on at a downtown lounge, I was hanging out in the relaxing ambiance when I noticed a man with a high quality tweed-type hat and a classy patterned shirt fumbling with his smartphone.
He seemed satisfied, as he waited for his dinner bill.
At first I was hesitant to pass along my copy of the National Post, seeing as he was otherwise engaged and all. In fact, the first time I tried to catch his attention he didn’t even turn his head. But I realized a newspaper should not go to waste, even if I had already been through it once. So I asked again.
“Actually, that would be great,” he said. “I was just in the middle of a Law Review article.”
Turns out he was in the crane business just in town for some corporate dealings. The article he was referring to was a Q&A with Bill Code, who headed up a super famous inquiry into the breakdown of The Principal Group, which had put $457 in life savings of sixty-seven thousand Canadians on the line.
What he didn’t know what I had in my possession another sort of legal correspondence, discovered in an office less than 100 paces from where he was sitting.
It seemed pretty mysterious, and I’m was pretty sure it was complex legal jargon of some sort. I could only assume it was a coy phrase meant to one-up a mate with a sly jab.
But it it sounded pretty salacious, so I thought I’d share it with you:
“I licked something and put something down my pants (not the same thing) Have fun! -k.”
A Beastly Memo on Rights
“ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL…
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS”
Striking Stencil on Concrete
“BETTER TO DESTROY THAN CREATE WHAT IS MEANINGLESS”
It’s good to see bureaucrats having fun
If you toiled away in a government building constructed with so much modernist concrete and overbearing dark windows FM radio frequencies were blocked out in many of its inner parts I assume you would need all the relief you could get.
I mean, the tile on much of the floor was certainly durable and decidedly utilitarian, but it was some of the cheapest material around and had the ability to inspire productivity like a can of spam in a plastic bag.
Perhaps the dreary atmosphere in official business buildings like this is to blame for mistakes like Passport Canada issuing thousands of passport booklets indicating the holder was a resident of “Camada” (the snafu appears twice within each, as reported by CBC Radio). If not, it may promote the lethargy that caused officials to decide not to bother issuing new ones, and instead alert every single global jurisdiction of their delightful incompetence.
Then again, deep in the bowels of the “widescraper,” there are hints of levity. And who knows exactly what went down in that storage closet really.
What do u c when u look around u?
“It’s emotional and I told you so,
but you had to know so I told you.
Soft walk to horizon,
one big crash that no one dies in.
This for the folks in Pay-it-ville,
it’ll come true if you say it will.”