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nice list alex... plus the obvious stuff, like the insane amount of festivals in the summer.. (fringe, jazz, bunch of films, mutek...theres basically some festival going on any time between june and august).

Oh and there are some really nice pictures here.

― Elliot (Elliot), Thursday, 29 May 2003 06:43 (twenty years ago) link

God, I miss Montreal so badly, you have no idea... everything about it, except maybe the weather and the inexplicable popularity of schlocky soft-rock. Is there another city anywhere in the world that's both that cool and that cheap to live in?

― Patrick, Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:26 (twenty years ago) link

Ville St. Laurent - the west indian grocery that only gets jamaican hardoh bread on Thursdays kicks and so does Ma's Place (better than Curry Garden--I know that's saying a lot) and the hot dog stand on the corner of Decarie and Cote Vertu.

I never thought I'd have a soft spot for St. Laurent--but it's happened.

Also, when I was away in the south for a couple of months this winter, I actually missed the weather. Now I miss the burning hotness of where I was...can't satisfy me either way. Especially when today the weather in mtl sucks!!!!

― cybele (cybele), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:36 (twenty years ago) link

faded memories of summers in mtl as a kid:
- LaRonde
- the expos' homosexual mascot, Youppi
- Jos Louis
- olympic stadium when it seemed huge and far away from everything
- A beautiful mod girl on a brokendown bright yellow Vespa I saw when i was about 10
- expo 67 and olympics 76 ashtrays and clocks and teacups in all your aged relatives homes
- the almost graham greene-ish dying colonialism of westmount & anglo mtl: roast beef sunday dinners at my gandma's in Town of Mount Royal etc

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

cybele, I just ate at Ma's Place for the first time and it was fantastic. This was during my joyful discovery of St. Laurent, which is really an overlooked gem in my opinion.

― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:08 (twenty years ago) link

Is there another city anywhere in the world that's both that cool and that cheap to live in?

Halifax, NS. You just have to accept being far away from everything else.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link

there's a street named rufus rockhead!

― sevin, Thursday, 29 May 2003 17:03 (twenty years ago) link

Hahaha yeah I saw that for the first time while driving with my boss and I started laughing. She didn't understand why it was so funny, maybe it doesn't translate into french.

― Elliot (Elliot), Thursday, 29 May 2003 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

i want my address to be 746 Rufus Rockhead

― sevin, Thursday, 29 May 2003 17:07 (twenty years ago) link

ten months pass...

Poutine in the New York Times.

― Paul Eater (eater), Monday, 26 April 2004 13:05 (twenty years ago) link

!!!!

thanks for the link paul!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago) link

"Club Super Sex" still makes me laugh.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 26 April 2004 19:02 (twenty years ago) link

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