29.03.26

Once the empty room revealed

the ivory bowl of tender fruits, 

all was forgiven -

even the waxen

falsity of their skins.

28.03.26

The cafe sits across from the building that housed the tofu factory that closed thirty years ago. While much has changed there is a lot that remains the same. Like the caryatids standing unburdened in the faux portico. Or the aftertaste of the sauce spread across the focaccia baked next door only a day old. And the pawn broker whose grilled windows separate the sticky fingers from the cordless drills. After forty years of sitting here lies a wealth.
 

 

27.03.26

Homer Street Free Bike Deconstruction Parking. Bring a lock. Lose components, saddles and wheels. All makes and models accepted. No valet on site.

26.03.26

DePencier House at 151 East 8th Ave (1958, CVA). Widely considered to be the oldest inhabited house in Vancouver outside of the downtown core. 

On the evening of March 25th, 2026 an upstairs fire burned out much of the two top floors. A faulty electric blanket was the alleged source (2026, PFB). 

It has been determined that the barbershop is intact, but water damage has seeped and warped its way into the neighbouring osteria. 

"It was built in 1889 for early Mount Pleasant settlers, Henry (d. 1909) and Mary (d. 1896) DePencier, who lived here with their children and a domestic servant named Sarah Lowe. Henry DePencier was a grocery retailer whose store was located next door to his home. Giving up the retail trade, DePencier later worked as manager for North Pacific Lumber Co. and briefly, in 1891, a City of Vancouver councillor." (C. Hagemoen, 2022)

25.03.26

The shock of the real is hyperreal when "Dr. Scott's Electric Corset Stimulates Vital Organs." 

24.03.26

The philosopher, like the painter, must begin with portraiture before landscapes and work in colours that remind us of mud and potatoes (after Deleuze).
 

23.03.26

The paradox continues to confound. How many know so much about so little; and so little about so much. (Ovoids featured are fabricated in Abu Dhabi, to be installed in post-colonial drainage system.)