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"New York Mulligan" - the dark sequel to "An American in Paris"

Tue, 2017/06/06 - 12:31pm

[not a musical]

After about a year in Paris, with Lise continuing to work at her perfume shop job and Jerry’s paintings not selling, Jerry convinces Lise to move to New York with him in the hopes that he will be more successful in the burgeoning New York art scene.


Four random nice things from today

Tue, 2017/05/30 - 7:30pm

Seems I have not one, but two, apple trees.

Dinner with friends wherein I learned something very helpful.

Getting checked out by a very attractive woman on a bicycle as I walked home from the grocery store.


How I Feel

Sun, 2017/05/28 - 12:42am

Being left out, ignored, under- or un- valued, these are the worst things for me, And the more it happens the less I feel I have anything to offer. So I withdraw. And then people forget I am even here. And it spirals down.


Anyone who reposts things from alt-right scions like Milo Yiannopoulos, even out of ignorance, has the hallmarks of a Nazi sympathiser.

Sat, 2017/05/27 - 1:23pm

You Get Used to Things

Sat, 2017/04/22 - 12:31pm

You get used to things. At work, four times a year, the logistics of changing out the show happen remarkably smoothly. Pretty much impossible to move things are shipped in and out and the whole space is transformed. Often walls are built and torn down, thousands of square feet of wall are repainted. Later today I'll be going down to a nightclub that will be transformed in a window of two hours.


WHSP FUBAR'd VMS RAID

Mon, 2017/02/13 - 9:38am

*ugh* E-mail for mbarrick.net, mbarrick.com and gothic.bc.ca (and less-importantly, araneum.ca) has been down since the wee hours of Sunday morning. I didn't even notice until Sunday night because I got off to such a slow start yesterday. And it's not just ordinary 'just restart the service' down, but 'hosting company managed to have a catastrophic RAID failure that took out a whole bank of virtual servers' down / 'full restore over a slow connection' down.


Transit Adventure Du Jour

Mon, 2017/02/06 - 11:46pm

It started snowing a little before 4:00. I left work at UBC at 5:00 and walked to the diesel-bus loop. It was already a tragic shit-show. One articulated bus as stuck at one end of the loop. There were multiple "transit supervisor" vehicles, but no actual supervision and a lot of chaos. I walked over to Bay 1a for the 480 and there were already enough people to fill an articulated bus waiting in line. I waited for a bit and watching what was going on with the other buses. A 43, a 49 and 41 went by, all stuffed past the red line.


Special Deal at Shannon Mews, Half the Space for Twice the Money!

Mon, 2017/01/23 - 11:19am

Going by controversial Shannon Mews (the complex at 57th Ave where they moved the previously convenient Marpole post office to, see http://www.mbarrick.com/blog/160805/gothic-bc-49-going-dead-episode-3 ) this morning on the way to work I noticed they had at least half a dozen "Now Renting" signs spaced along the Granville side of the development.


I just rode my 45lb bike to the literal asshole of Vancouver and (mostly) back—the furthest I've ridden a bike in over 30 years.

Sat, 2017/01/21 - 3:53pm

270 K this morning. Overnight lows in the low 260's.

Tue, 2017/01/03 - 8:09am

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