August 2005

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• Quixotic Notions, Vancouver

  Where’s an Ark when you need one

  08.18.05 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  So the first rain in 30 days hit the Lower Mainland yesterday evening with such ferocity it punched a hole in our beleaguered roof. This we discover as we bed down, past midnight, after an already exhausting day. In retrospect, amusing, though at the time not so much so. Pics show the bucket battalion mobilised [...]

• Quixotic Notions, Vancouver

  Interpretating the trauma

  08.11.05 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Another affirmation today that it is absolutely imperative I leave this job as soon as possible. As a favour to a so-called friend, I sat in on what was probably the worst meeting ever held: in this building; at this company; in the world — its scale was incalculable. Its sheer pointlessness was impossible for [...]

• Quixotic Notions, Vancouver

  Facile and cliché

  08.06.05 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Can’t sleep. The past few nights the heat has made it difficult but tonight it was something different. Something about transience. Our temporary nature, our shifting desires and responsibilities (i.e. rethinking the trip), our profound and devastating effect on our hitherto intransient terra firma, what to do with our lives — I don’t know. These [...]

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Junkies for that feeling you get just before you board a plane, train, or automobile for somewhere other than here, we're seeing as much of the world as we can, staying one step ahead of the trifecta spectre (trispectre?) of security, progeny and mortgages.

We also love a good meal.

Project: Eggplant will track as much of that as we feel like putting fingers to keyboards. At times we'll get lazy and just take some purdy pictures. And sometimes it may sound like we're just moaning. In the end, if we don't write it with a smile on our faces, it doesn't get posted.

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