Human electronic waves: Well the bloodwork's good anyways. Probing the Canadian health care system.
The parkade would make a rad backdrop for a photo of some dude just launching off of it, we decided.
Everyone I meet, and even the most established of institutions, love waves...
I'm told the underground rap scene is huge in Saskatoon. Apparently it's totally pimped out and blingin' in its degredation too.
I just love the way my camera phone distorts things at night.
Ozzy is the proud town drunk who apparently lives under a bridge... I even partied with him there... What was he thinking about here? I asked. Getting wrecked, he said. Oh Ozzy.
Mmmmm.... coffee...
Wheeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm on the handlebars of Ozzy's bike (or one he stole???), freaking out, and that's my buddie Eddie in the background swigging rum n' coke (sweetest kid) trying to keep up.
All sorts of travellers just pass through Saskatoon: natives bussing to and from the north, punks just fucking around with squeegees, and hippies living off the B.C. vibe that even permeates out here... you don't even have to sing in tune to rock out on guitar...
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'There's a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes. I love not man the less, but nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal. From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the universe, and feel. What I can never express, yet cannot all conceal' from The Ocean, Lord Byron.
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This is from an anthology of about 500 poems I picked up from the library. 499 more left to read, haha.
Oh, and who's hooked up to that monitor in the first pic??
That's my hampster. Not me. I swear. Lol.
= Poetry and writing have gone a long way to actually help create surfing -- like, to bring it into existence in the first place.
In 1907 Jack London, America's most famous writer (the guy who wrote the Call of the Wild) moved to the only place where surfing really happened -- Hawaii -- gave himself over to the surf, learning from two of the greatest locals, and then wrote a book about it, and published articles for huge mainstream magazines. If it weren't for him there would have been no "Surfing USA" if you know what I mean.
So keep reading eh? Hahaha.
Do Canadians really think Jack London is "America's most famous writer?"
You must have a bleak view of American writing.
That, or you're ignorant about it.
Allow me to educate you by listing some other American writers:
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemmingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike.
And that's only if you don't count the last couple of decades.
Heck, John Grisham is more famous than Jack London.
Hey thanks for passing along a list of some of the greatest writers of all time. I totally should read more...
If there's any bias involved here it's an American extreme-sports one -- that's the genre of book where I got my facts n' stuff. IT was a boardsport retrospective that mentioned that Jack London was America's most famous writer "at the time", which is why his surfing exposé-of-sorts was so influential. Even so, I didn't live back then, and I don't particularly care -- maybe he was a nobody. All I know is that surfing is what it is today partly because of Jack London's desire to pick up and just hit the beach.
I wonder if you could draw a link, though, between Jack London raising pop-culture interest in surfing 100 years ago, and Tom Clancy helping to raising interest among average Americans in complex espionage and counter-insurgency through his books and video games. Maybe that's stretching it... One's a sport and the other's an aspect of the military... But what do you think?
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