Lookin'

                                     After that neat talk by trever anderson and his truly neato film about the high level bridge, and looking at Journal Edmonton's blog with her map pages , i feel inclined to....  post this picture , but first i'll explain it.
my friend, after graduating with a poli sci degree and being on unemployment, got a job doing research for the conservative party. and commissioned me to paint a peice for his office. and i thought uuhmmm conservative... yuppie.... legislature...... and came up with this. I never thought to think about the attachment we all have with this bridge, as an icon, as something that links and seperates, as a suicide launcher.   i had a strange relationship with the hiogh level while painting it because it was hard to make all the bars look accurate, which is what i was trying to do. but anyway.. and now that feeling is gone, as with the money i got paid, and it is just a thing i walk on to get home when its not too cold outside. as are all good things in life .. (sneakers).
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 36" x 30". acrylic
the little guy at the bottom is pretty cheesy, i know, but the guy who i did it for is a folk singer so, the hobo-esque figure, has a soft spot in his folky heart. also excuse the plastic wrap on wall behind.  i should have cropped the photo. i should have done a lot of things ..  (sneakers).

also I really liked it when trever said, today, that having limitations is healthy for art making.
my biggest limitation in life is money, specifically, the lack there of. i dont think its very healthy.

(sneakers?@?@?!!?)
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The high level's lil bro!!!!!!!!!!!! ahahah :(
i took this for my map assignment.
good thing we have reading week..
so we can all read hustler
and not be subject matter for the sequel to that film we watched today abotu jumping off bridges

not bad

so far english three eighty is not bad. not bad at allll......    i am surprised with having the authors of course texts come in to talk with us, that is a treat.

it's hard to come up with anythings.

we are trying to concentrate on our relationship with the city. but what about teh relationship edmonton's rabbits have with the city? or, the squirrels. did you know that underneath that poorly crafted and completely annoying "temporary" sidewalk that is ominously permanent, that runs around that newly constructed and incoherently located daycare playground, runs a glorified rodent super highway. it makes complete sense! we should all salute the ever-resourceful squirrel and his urban compatriates.   but, actually not the rabbits. they hop into my backyard adn get confused and the next morning i see the frantic prints of an animal going into dead ends of paths and trying to leap into the snowbanks but leaping out again. but i never actually see them. so they are probably ... i think problems can arise when people try to over intellectualize lived experiences.
(of animals in edmonton or humans)
have you ever been in the handicap stall and then someone in a wheelchair coems in and they actually need that stall, and you dont...   ahhh that's a bad feeling. its like someone catching you trying to take a nap in their bedroom. or something.
everyone i tell about the edmonton queen is really excited. what is it abotu drag queens that people find so delightful? maybe everyone has seen Priscilla queen of the desert, becuase, hooo doggy, that movie is delightful! its probably a lot of things. that people think  equals fun

ahh yes friday. the day of fries. i identify with hamza and yehat's love of the weekend. i feel like i could have a good time with those soul brothassssssss even though. i would be a nerd and embarass them if i tried to order ethiopian food probably. then redeem myself by playing a gucci mane remixes album. ????

here is a great suggestion to those who do not know, padmapper.com   if you are moving, this site is the "bomb". its a google map that compiles all kijiji craigslist amazon whatever and you click around and look at ads the easy way. its how i found my place now.   and it is fun to chose a different city and imagine where and how else you could live.  oops! ah retract. statement.   just  love for ed

elevator hopper

                                tuesday night i went to a friend's house for a dinner party style hang out because our pregnant friend was in town, it really was like a triple date. its funny, because us three girls have been buddies since kindergarten and all that, and our bf's are so different but they are forcibly meshed together because they have to becuase their girlfriends/wife...yeah. so in conversation i mentioned i have to write a blog for school and then 10 minutes later my blog starting blasting through the speakers. metalhead dan (striker) found my blog on the net, copy pasted it into text to speak and then hooked the laptop up to giant speakers, so my blogs just blasted out in a computerized man's voice with a german accent. you can choose the accent. hahahhhhh......... boy, was my face red!

i don't know why i think i can go out on week nights and then do school the next day. because i cant god dammit! last night, what with the freezing rain and all, i pretty much skated home down jasper from last night at 2 am.  buffalo underground, it just opened where that gay bar play used to be (q-history). minorities in edmonton are celebrated, i saw this last night. that place is huge i suggest checking it out, there are lots of dark corners and it smells like subway because there is one next door. aaawww yeah

i loath doing housework
there is a squirrel that lives in between the roof and ceiling of the house i live in. someday i will take a picture of the house i live in right now because it's pretty weird. i might even use the word....  zany.

i was taking an extended vacation in asia last year and a man said "oh canadian, vancouver or toronto? ha har har har" and i said no. its edmonton like this, and i drew a map of canada on the back of his receipt book and then marked the famed t dot and van city then starred e town. then a boy came up to the bar and he loved the map and drew a star on saskatoon where he was from. and the night whithered away into day light as we all drew maps of canada.....!   sort of. i believe, that night, that i was walking up a hill to my bungalo and a man in a security suit jumped out of the bushes and was like "mam! there are snakes!" and walked me through a clearing with a flashlight and a big stick to bash snakes. then i got an ear infection. as is life!