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Trails of '98 - Pierre Berton
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My first Pierre Berton. I thought - for some reason - that he was from Montreal. Nope, apparently born in Whitehorse, Yukon.
Anyways, a slender book (more a pamphlet) but filled with the larger than life characters, almost entirely peripheral, that made up the Yukon/Alaska Goldrush. Not first person, but he drew upon any number of sources, and it intrigues me to think that a great many of their skeletons and possessions still litter the trails North from Edmonton, Ashcroft, and of course amongst the mountains and glaciers of Alaska, Northern BC and the Yukon.
Hostile Architecture
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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There are tons of articles out there about this - how the architecture of big cities is increasingly designed to discourage homelessness. Think of those "ornamental" triangular bumps that top windowsills, flat areas, or the dividers they put on benches.
But this - in front of a church, no less, this has to take the cake:
Now, I mean, really. If Jesus really did come back as a homeless person he's definitely not crashing on this bench, in front of this church. So I guess they'll be missing out.
It would be impossible to conceive a bigger irony, which I suspect is entirely lost upon them.
Oh, yeah - looking at the photos underlines the fact that I need a new phone/camera. Soon, but not today.
Roddy Ricch
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Or, why I'm so fucking poor. Because this mother-fucking-getting-rich.
Link: Roddy Rich
Weird I never heard of him before. Great name though.
Alan Watts
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Found myself listening to a lot of him lately.
He's well reasoned, reassuring, the recordings of him on YouTube vary greatly - from his younger self to older, he speaks simply and eloquently on the greater mysteries of life.
In the absence of intelligent company there's always the internet...
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