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Re: Blog Thread IIIa : Look Who's Blogging Now

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tania:
vancouver people have a lot of piercings in their face and dye in their hair and ink in their skin and for the most part kind of look like they are way too cool for my sorry butt (and probably are). they also seem to REALLY love coffee and sushi here because you can't go like 10 god dang steps in any direction without running into one of those two things, at least that's what i have seen in my limited downtown experience, although in their defense sushi and coffee are both delicious in their own way and so i have no problems with this at all. on my way to salt spring coffee i walked for about 45 minutes down main st and must have passed at least 50 independent coffee shops and sushi places and ALL of them looked like they were doing great business. every fifth store was a coffee shop or a sushi place. you could probably open up yet another coffee or sushi place on that street amid the one jillion other shops and your business would find some way to thrive. vancouver really, really loves their coffee and sushi. it's insane.

also everytime i look around and see mountains and trees and rivers i forgive vancouver for thinking it is cooler and better looking than i am because frankly it's right, it kind of is. i have so much more still to learn about this city. further research will follow.

beat mouse:
You are thinking like an outsider still. Vancouver isn't cooler or better than you, you live in Vancouver now.

Christophe:
So yesterday I had to drive two hours back to my parents' place in my car without air conditioning. Turning it on would break the fuse that controls the AC, dashboard, and windows.

Man, fuck my car. As soon as I drive back home I'm never taking it out of town again.

Inlander:
Today was the last day of the Melbourne Writers Festival. It only goes for a week. I went to a session on writing about music which featured Robert Forster, among others. Man, I could listen to Robert Forster talk all day. Then I went to a session about politics in fiction which featured China Mieville, among others. I haven't read any of Mieville's work - in fact until very recently I was under the misapprehension that he was some long-deceased American writer for some reason - but what he had to say about the appallingly casual "ironic" use in contemporary society of slurs such as "bitch" and "cunt" was so agree-worthy (it's late on Sunday night, I can't be bothered thinking of the right word) that I went and bought a copy of the City and the City from the festival bookshop and queued up to get it signed just so I could thank him. We chatted for a few seconds in which we agreed the admiring use of the word "raped" that's prevalent today is horrifying. He seems like a nice man, though intense.

Graphite:
I've heard so many good things about Mieville. One friend described him as taking Gaiman-type premises and then doing them in a far more complex world-building way. He's high on the list of authors-to-seek-out-after-semester. Hearing about the views of his that you just mentioned only makes me more keen.

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