Red Cedar
More apocalypse, less angst
grit and poverty
urgh – monday morning.
there was a woman working the stroll in front of my apartment building this morning, just by the bus stop which is a bit strange given that sex-trade workers in the neighbourhood don’t tend to work that far up from hastings at 7 in the morning. after midnight and before 5, yes – but once people start going to work, they tend to go back down to the other part of the neighbourhood.
she seemed out of it, weaving a bit as though intoxicated – and i wondered if she was simply not paying attention to the unspoken rules about the sex trade in the neighbourhood because of it.
the unspoken rules are those followed by the women working the street in order not to raise the ire of the pure-minded community folks – in order to be allowed to exist without too much police interference. they include things like keeping a low profile on commercial drive during daylight hours, and keeping sex acts themselves to the industrial zones that ring the neighbourhood. these are the games we play with each other in urban areas – games of rules and denial – so one group can pretend the other doesn’t exist and in that way we can give space on the margins.
new blog
after some hemming and hawing i decided to move my blog away from livejournal and over to resist.ca – so here it is – the first entry in my new blog!
although livejournal provides a good service, it doesn’t allow for statistics tracking nor does it handle dns properly which irritated me to no end. from now on, make sure you access this blog via http://red-cedar.ca as the livejournal blog will no longer be updated.
thanks thanks thanks to margot who came over last night, drank gin with me, and got this blog up and running on wordpress. she has moved over all my archives which is just swell – though you may find some odd formatting in some of the older articles – they are all here.
will be providing a more interesting update shortly.
raining
i know the world isn’t ending tonight because the rain is falling hard upon the parched earth for the first time in months
manning photos
here are some of the photos nathan took on our trip to manning park, the captions are from my journal entry yesterday:
there is no more compassionate touch than cool water
to soothe the ache of civilization from one’s heart
sushi on a rock
here is a picture from the weekend camping trip of making sushi on a flat rock in an alpine meadow – i didn’t take almost any photos on this trip. when nathan sends me his, i will post some of them (i’m not a photographer, and this was taken with a not-so-good digital camera).
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