coming soon: the reception!

me and ian drove down to detroit, and met my oldest buddy dan (who will soon feature as the groom in a set of wedding photos), for the free broken social scene show, part of the comerica cityfest, which is a sweet festival the city puts on, with a whack of tasters food vendors and free shows on 3 stages for like 4 days over the july 4th long weekend. we celebrated the american day of independence with an obama-praising canadian indie band.

kevin drew had apparently thrown his back out and nearly called off the show, so he played sitting down, with an obus form backrest…

…until the valium kicked in, presumably, and he got up for a few numbers. seemingly in a bit of a haze, he would debut a new song (which the other dudes in the band didn’t seem to know they were gonna be playing) and then end the show with an impromptu solo version of almost crimes.

and i’m back. hadn’t taken a photo since vegas, but i took more than 500 in the last month, including canada day (or cannabis day as it is also known here in vancouver), broken social scene in detroit, wedding #1, cottage, wedding #2, and the most stressful and high pressure “photo shoot” i’ve ever done and probably ever will. so it’s photo week (probably month by the time i get around to it), starting with pemberton fest this past weekend.

the golden horseshoe wedged up my ass is still very much in place, as we somehow managed to avoid almost all of the traffic, shuttle lineups, and security checks that were the only downside to the first pemberton festival. we got there just as interpol was starting their set, rushed to find an empty spot to pitch our tent, threw our shit down and rushed to the stage. incendiary might be a good description, rest my chemistry was the perfect slowburn to accompany a sunset in the mountains. the rest of the weekend involved jay-z, nin, my morning jacket, the hip, black mountain, fiery furnaces, tom petty, and coldplay (i didn’t get any pictures of any of them though, oops)

terra is not a camper

sam roberts

flaming lips

firefox was already about a dillion times better than internet explorer, and now version 3 is out, so if you haven’t made the switch yet, do it right the fuck now.

then make it even better with add-ons: the ad-blocker (not just pop-ups, all ads, its revolutionary), forecast fox (unobtrusive weather bar), piclens (futuristic picture viewing like minority report), and more.

edit: huzzah!

wow this experiment turned out way better than i thought, easy as 1 2 3

in text form:

search string - site:ndp.ca homeless*
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search string - site:liberal.ca homeless*
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search string - site:conservative.ca homeless*
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search string - site:ndp.ca environment
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search string - site:liberal.ca environment
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search string - site:conservative.ca environment
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search string - site:ndp.ca war
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search string - site:liberal.ca war
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search string - site:conservative.ca war
results found: 77

search string - site:ndp.ca gender
results found: 773
search string - site:liberal.ca gender
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search string - site:conservative.ca gender
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a nice bar graph would do wonders here, but let’s not get carried away.

try it with your own search terms and leave the results in the comments!

yikes: farewell, fair weather

This surge in disasters and attendant costs is yet another reason we need to declare a coordinated war on climate change akin to the wars on drugs and terror. It’s a matter of national security.