The contestants in Ottawa’s Winterlude two-hour ice sculpture competition were arrayed around what in warmer times must be a bubbling-spraying fountain. There was ice on the sidewalks, snow on the lawn and white flakes falling from the sky. When we arrived, the artists the carving had begun. Hints of shape were beginning to emerge. There […]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Banks
Sun, 12 Feb 2012, 09:53 AM (-06:00)
Ever notice this? I only say this as full disclosure. You see, I am not unbiased. With that said, here are some tools I’m using to understand the foreclosure fraud settlement deal… 1. The administration’s MO In keeping with my disclaimer above, here’s Scarecrow at Firedog lake articulating a cynical view on how the administration approaches […]
Coffee Time
Sat, 11 Feb 2012, 08:58 PM (-06:00)
When you cross the border, you go from the Land of Starbucks to the Land of Tim Horton’s. This isn’t a terribly original thought, nor is it entirely accurate, still there’s something here. There’s something reassuring about a Tim Horton’s coffee shop, some kind of gemütlichkeit that you just don’t find in a Starbucks. Although […]
Morning Luxuries
Sat, 11 Feb 2012, 04:44 PM (-06:00)
We shift now to our recent trip to Ottawa, a trip from which we recently returned. What follow are several stories of that vacation… I suppose we should have been disappointed that we slept in. The two-hour Winterlude One-Block Challenge had started at 8:00am, and we would arrive an hour later. But no, we were […]
Great Horned Owls
Sat, 11 Feb 2012, 01:56 PM (-06:00)
When we got out of the car, Trudy want into the house, and I went around the side to drop some bottles into the recycling bin. There was a hooting somewhere in the back. I mean a real hoo-hoo-hoo hooting. The kind of clichéd owl sound you might hear on a cartoon. I stood silently, listening […]
B
Fri, 10 Feb 2012, 11:22 PM (-06:00)
My story seems to be stuck in Kentucky even though I returned almost two months ago. There’s so much other stuff to talk about—riots in Athens as the schemes of Euro-bosses and technocrats seems to wash up on the rocks week after week, political calculus and triangulation in the United State that makes concessions to […]