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Isn't Regina the city where every tree you see has been planted by hand?

yes. but Saskatoon has a man-made mountain.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

Montreal is gorgeous but kind of sleazy. Vancouver I haven't seen in awhile but I hear they've done amazing things with it since I was last there. The people and diversity of Toronto are great, but the architecture there makes no sense. There are all these random high-rise apartment buildings sprinkled around all over the place so your view of anything always seems to be blocked in every direction. It's so claustrophobic. The CN Tower, especially sitting next to the silly Skydome, just looks like a hokey conceit. The entire lakefront seemed wasted; I remember having to walk underneath an overpass to get to it. Not very inviting.

That 16 lane east-west highway is an apocalyptic thing; I'd love to see it at rush hour!

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

Was it a molehill beforehand?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

Is it made out of trash? Can you ski on it?

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:22 (twenty years ago) link

Sleazy? Mtl? Never!

― cybele (cybele), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:23 (twenty years ago) link

Kris, they are working on waterfront, its getting alot better over recent years, though Im not the ILXor who should be talking about that. Though i heard they were going so far as to suggest we follow the Big Dig example and go Boston's rooute. Don't think its going to happe.
I never thought about it but I guess you'r talking about the 401, its living hell in rushhour. but nowhere near as bad as the DVP (The Don Valley Parkinglot) in rushour.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

I hate this place.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:29 (twenty years ago) link

But your not in Winnipeg!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:29 (twenty years ago) link

we don't even have a JK Samson to speak for us.
we are mute.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

plus, we have the goddman western canadian music week next week (it's only 3 days long). what a stinkfest that's gonna be.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:42 (twenty years ago) link

I'd say "well don't go to it, then" but that might not be an option for you.

Well, I'm still aiming at being there the last week of November.

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

How much Nickleback is that gonna be?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:47 (twenty years ago) link

Which is to say, after the stupid football thing, which is cheerfully (and cheesefully) on the cover of the booklet of events that Sask Tourism sent me. (One of the other Sask Tourism booklets has a cover which seriously seems to be advocating polygamy. Or, specifically, polyandry.)

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

Sask Tourism, grey cups and sausage parties!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

Ach, it's really tiny, but here:

http://www.sasktourism.com/images/ser_fg_2003vacation_57x74.gif
A woman being hugged by two men. One raises a fishing pole in glee.

http://www.sasktourism.com/images/ser_fg_2003events_28x65.gif
Football fans. One is wearing a cheese hat and one is making a blowjob face. (Pass.)

http://www.sasktourism.com/images/ser_fg_maggie_125x80.jpg
She is waiting for your call to get these booklets. If this woman isn't hitched then there is something wrong with the world. We love you, Maggie!

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

how sad is this?
Entertainer of the Year Nominees:
Bif Naked - Essentially Naked
John Mann - Acoustic Kitty
Nickelback - Silver Side Up
Swollen Members - Monsters in the Closet
The Watchmen - Slomotion

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 September 2003 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

Where is Bif Naked from? I thought she was BC material.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:00 (twenty years ago) link

they're all BC except the Watchmen (Nickelback's been in Vancouver for like 6 years).
John Mann is the guy from Spirit of the West.

Honestly, the whole thing embarrasses me. There are going to be a few decent bands at the showcases though. Let me find the posters though...they're frightening...

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:05 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.westerncanadianmusicweek.com/images/excitedSide.jpg

the theme is people in suits rejoicing. Like "Yo, slap me some skin, we just ripped off another artist and blamed it on the internet!"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:07 (twenty years ago) link

"health insurance? for musicians? hahahahahahaha!"
http://www.westerncanadianmusicweek.com/images/dealSide.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

WTF?

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:10 (twenty years ago) link

That last one needs to be enlarged.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

i love yer brain, horace

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

That 16 lane east-west highway is an apocalyptic thing; I'd love to see it at rush hour!

Highway 401? Hey, no problem!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:25 (twenty years ago) link

That is the coolest government site EVER!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:31 (twenty years ago) link

somewhere there's a webcam at the Regina Airport that (according to the Urban Dwellers Alamanac) is always pointed straight down at a bare patch of tarmac.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:32 (twenty years ago) link

I'd return but VALIS is keeping me here. Damn extraterrestrial consciousness fuckin' my life up as usual.

― dave q, Friday, 19 September 2003 19:41 (twenty years ago) link

If'n you don't want to click through, here are a couple near the 400/401 interchange:
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/compass/camera/pictures/loc23.jpg http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/compass/camera/pictures/loc24.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 19 September 2003 19:52 (twenty years ago) link

hey neat - The Gardiner Expressway aka. my back yard.

(if this works)

http://www.toronto.ca/trafficimages/loc12.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 19 September 2003 21:08 (twenty years ago) link

heheh.. lookit all those saps out there trying to commute west to go home.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 19 September 2003 21:10 (twenty years ago) link

I dunno, looking pretty empty to me, now. (I love the fact that anyone looking at this thread will be getting different pictures depending on when they read it. As I write it's near midnight so it's all dark and devoid of traffic.)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 20 September 2003 02:40 (twenty years ago) link

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INDEX: Entertainment, Religion
HL:Martin Sheen says he’s a fan of Canada while receiving award in Ontario
WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) — Martin Sheen, the American actor and activist, had kind words for Canada when he received an award for being a Christian role model.
“Every time I cross this border I feel like I’ve left the land of lunatics,” Sheen said Saturday, adding he was “proud” of Canada for not entering the Iraq war.
“You are not armed and dangerous. You do not shoot each other. I always feel a bit more human when I come here.”
Sheen, who has been outspoken recently in his opposition the U.S.-led war in Iraq, was in Windsor to receive the Christian Culture Gold Medal from Assumption University.
The university will offer a new scholarship in his name.
(Windsor Star)

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 18:52 (twenty years ago) link

Isn't Martin Sheen Jewish?

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 22 September 2003 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

no, he's hispanic, ESTEVEZ

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

I thought he was Catholic.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:03 (twenty years ago) link

He's a celebrity, so who the hell knows!?!?
but being born Estevez, he was likely raised Catholic.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

So in other words he's non-practising atheist.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:20 (twenty years ago) link

regardless...
the point is that the fictional president of the United States like Canada best, just like the old fictiional top Assistant District Attorney of New York likes Canada better too (michael "coo coo" moriarty).

conclusion, people who portray American Men of Power, and ergo have a keener understanding of geopolitik than anyone else, think Canada is the best.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:44 (twenty years ago) link

No, no, no, I'm really far more interested in the "Sheen as Christian" angle.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 22 September 2003 21:35 (twenty years ago) link

It's a wet and chilly night out there. brrrr..

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 01:14 (twenty years ago) link

here too, and it's not even 10 a.m. yet.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:54 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

What are "smokies"?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:00 (twenty years ago) link

in what context?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:02 (twenty years ago) link

In the "food" context, I think.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:05 (twenty years ago) link

it's like a gourmet hot dog. I think it's short for "smoked sausage." You don't have these in America? You guys like your hot dogs footlong though, but don't care what's in 'em. Typical.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:07 (twenty years ago) link

We like our hotdogs to have fake cheez inside them. Anyway I don't think we have "smokies". We certainly didn't seem to have them 15 years ago when I ate meat...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:10 (twenty years ago) link

Smokies have cheez in them sometimes.
My youngest brother survives on them. Where did you come across such a word? Is shade club owner trying to get you to agree to being paid in smokies?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:11 (twenty years ago) link

Cheez smokies are gross.
Did Paul Martin's speech this past weekend fill anyone other than me with a weird sort of hope? I always get that way and then later regret it.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:11 (twenty years ago) link

this gives me more hope

http://zone.artizans.com/images/previews/MAC806.pvw.jpg

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:17 (twenty years ago) link

It's on the E-Z Alibi's online menu. $5.95, comes with soup or salad. (I also sent you an e-mail about this, H-Dawg.)

Bryan, get on AIM and tell me you have terrific news for me.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

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