Proper Mini by The User
Neil’s expatriated himself over to the U.K. from Vancouver since the spring, and this recent shot of his reminded me of last week, when I saw an original mini car zipping south along Jarvis Street with two big blokes in the front. The number plate?
MINSQUL

– or,
“That Was Fun, But I Have No Photographic Evidence!”
Not long ago I returned home from a whirlwind car tour of Toronto with Ben, who I met over a year ago, VandigicamPhotoWalking in Kitsilano and Jericho Beach. I chuckled on the way home, because it was so impromptu, and the look on Ben’s face when [...]

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Aviator Dave by Frans Peter Verheyen
Back on the last day of 2005, I was fighting my way through a blinding snowstorm, trying to get my cousin to the coach terminal in Stroudsburg, then Mount Pocono, so she could catch her flight to Vancouver from JFK.
Meanwhile, thousands of kilometres away in The Netherlands, Frans Peter Verheyen [...]

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… I have all sorts of unfinished things that I’d like to complete today: e-mail in various stages of composition, experimental plugins half-tweaked, shelves partially dusted, ‘To Do’ lists with not many items checked off, megabytes of unprocessed photos — the usual.
But I got a real boost today: the new owner of our Piper Tri-Pacer [...]

Hugh is driving me BONKERS this week. Every day, it’s been a virtual flood of revenge pee. Ever since I started letting Hugh wander the hallway, he’s been OBSESSED with it, and if I don’t let him wander, I end up cleaning. Over and over. It’s one of the reasons why I had to move [...]

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You’d want to go back to sleep, that’s what.
A commercial for Folger’s coffee, shown here, linked from Andrew Coyne. Somebody at Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, must’ve had some Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory meets Up With People nightmares.