may 21 2009
Last night my brother called around 11:30pm, and until midnight that’s what I looked like… screaming, jackknifing and I couldn’t breathe. I knew it was wrong to be so loud that late we but we could not stop; my laugh carries, it just comes out that way.
One time I was dying in a parking lot and three floors up someone’s head pops out the window, “Keri? I recognized your laugh” and snap, an old friend I hadn’t seen in years.
Those aren’t stills; 3/4 of the way in I turned on my Flip.
Rannie and I are at the R.C Harris Water Treatment Plant on Queen St. East in Toronto, aka, one of my new favourite places to be; it’s exactly like being in a real-life version of Myst.
While we were filming some workers showed up and I pitched to get us inside, but they weren’t buying. They said since 9/11 all tours have ceased. And there’s a new guy running the place who is intent on bringing the property up to his high standards… apparently the brass inside is amazing, and all the windows that were once bricked over and slowly being replaced with bullet proof glass.
Read more background info on this episode here.may 5 2009
I came up to Eagle Lake with Andy, who brought along his friend (and my new one), Tex.
Quick story: while sitting on the ice Tex told us how there was a group of professional divers working in the lake a few years back. All of a sudden they shot up to the surface and refused to ever ever go down into the lake again. They were that spooked AND refused to talk about what they saw. And these guys are professionals. march 5 2009
Weird eh? And Tex is not a guy to elaborate or be dramatic. He said maybe they saw an Ogopogo. Me: “what is that?”.
Well! Turns out Canada has it’s very own Lock Ness Monstor kinda guy, an Ogopogo. I added that to my trip list > Go visit the Ogopogo in BC. Along with searching for the Sasquatch, we will be busy.
Meet Eldon Garnet, an elite Canadian artist. If you live in Toronto for sure you’ve passed by some of it, he makes giant stuff. We’re at Bar-Italia (warning: music plays).
He’s also written 4 books, was the guy behind Impulse Magazine for 15 years, teaches at the OCAD and is a photographer as well. I don’t much like his photographs though so can’t speak to that.
Thanks for a great lunch Eldon! And like the screenshot I chose for below?
Running dialogue collapse.
Determined to start the year on a clear Canadian Explorer path, I made a Manifesto and read it to you.
2011 Update
It’s a drawn out 7 minutes, but I ended up accomplishing 90%, just not in that order, or overly-ambitious scale lol a Land Rover.
2024 UPDATE
Sure do know a lot more about the Canadian Military now, true colours and all that. Can you think of bigger pukes than some of the upper echelon? Chaplains maybe.
Soldiers: thank you, can’t image that environment.