All Hale BOPP!!

[matthew]

I actually biked to the Wizard of Westmount's office today. 28 miles/44KM  (round trip)...except I forgot to eat a decent meal and I drank too much coffee before leaving. Also: heat/sun took a lot out of me and my arms and neck are tingling still. Also also: for the first time in my life I actually wished I had sunglasses - on the way home at 5PM the sun dropping in the West almost killed me on several occasions. To my surprise it turned out to be a very simple ride and it only took an hour. I only realized once I was there that I was only blocks from the downtown core. It is strange how disjointed one's perspective of a city is when your usual method of travel is public transportation and from there, foot. I only drove for about five years (1995-2000) before simply being to regularly drunk to be allowed near my parents' car ever again. In that time I rarely ever had the opportunity to drive downtown.

Sketchiest bit of the journey is that stretch from Montreal West through NDG to Westmount. Fucking cars.

[Just Some Girl]

Simon Schama's Power of Art, tonight on PBS..   10/ 9 central

Caught that one. Never really cared for Rembrandt before, but now that I know he was quite the iconoclast, I'm much more interested.

Schama was guest on The Colbert Report tonight. Nice high-/ low-culture moment.

[Doctor Rock]

this is my favorite


<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/7wqfcwgT0Ds" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/7wqfcwgT0Ds</a>

Pet Shop Boys!