Just when I thought my part of town couldn't be any more badly run, up spring these awful-looking charity boxes strewn throughout the neighbourhood. I counted three of these hideous garbage cans for junk clothing within a one block radius in St. Raymond's. How they got here is beyond me but poor city planning is clearly to blame for allowing this new eyesore.
Speaking of eyesores... a local company does a spunktastic little education program for the Discovery Channel called How it's Made. The episode on grappling hooks should come with a warning however as these disgustingly filthy hands are worse than a horror film. Someone on staff had better think their soap and water videotaping policy through a bit further.
A small memorial to the victims of the Newtown massacre has sprouted up in this NDG park. I don't know if there are others around town, but this one is quite touching.
Now that we have a Gary Carter laneway or whatever that little thing is, I think we're ready for a Vladi and Rusty Avenues as well. Someone start the petition. Christopher Plummer also needs a street, as does
Sarah Maxwell.
This banner in Doug Harvey arena shows that one of the hockey players from a past local champion team is making big money as an adult athlete.. but alas not as a hockey player. Pittsburgh Pirate catcher Russell Martin is the easily most successful currently active professional athlete from NDG. Consider too that there's at least one (or more?) players in the NBA as well. Then consider that the 165,000 population of CDN/NDG has only produced Marco Scuderi in the NHL, it makes you start wondering if we're developing our young hockey talent in the proper way.
These little waving cats are huge around the world. I saw a place overseas not long ago with a whole wall of these cute critters waving from inside the window. I stood there for quite some time transfixed. If you own retail, get these and pop 'em up in your window. I guarantee it'll get peepers looking in on your display, a sort of low-budget Ogilvy's window.
This is the all-time worst Zamboni driving job I've ever seen. The driver totally missed an entire 14-inch wide strip along the boards. Having watched hundreds of such ice resurfacings over the last few years I can tell you that it must be harder than it looks because there are almost always parts of the ice that get missed. It's really time to get these machines automated.
These two women are featured on the
Facebook site
of a local strip club. What do you think. Sexy or crazy..? Or both? Or neither?
These two women are featured on the
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The beckoning cat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneki-neko
Charity boxes located at shopping centres are okay, but shouldn't be allowed on the street. Mayor Drapeau is turning over in his grave.
Maybe the Zamboni driver is just overly-cautious, or may come back later to do the edge with a "broom". ;-)
Those women are crazy IMO.
Onkel Charlie
I'd hit up girl # 1 and 2 after a few too many beers.. of which i have had.
You mean Sergio Momesso?
Indeed Drapeau would be spinning in his grave about those charity boxes. When he was on his "beautify Montreal" kick, he wanted to get rid of those delightfully ramshackle newspaper kiosks on street corners. Then he wanted better looking phone booths. So instead of the emminently practical (especially in winter) enclosed phone booths, we ended up with those posts with a head to thigh wrap-around plastic screen and a round roof. Empty lots in the downtown area were "beautified" with coloured fence panels in a variety of shapes.
Has Montreal ever named anything after Scotty Bowman?
What about Michel Pagliaro?
Ugly street fixtures would also include many of those grungy bus shelters and uncomfortable public benches that deadbeats had been sleeping on. :-(
I'd tear down a lot of these crappy modern condos and hideous grey brick houses in DDO before those charity boxes if we want to talk about eyesores in Montreal.
I agree about those hideously filthy hands. You can get a nailbrush at the dollar store!
That isn't a grappling hook in your picture, it's an SLCD (single loading camming device), aka a Friend, aka a cam.
It's used in traditional rock climbing (as opposed to sport). They're especially useful in parallel sided cracks. The crust in the nails may be due to aluminum oxide or the grease used to make sure the cams work properly.
I went to the site for that strip club you mentioned, and I don't know what's more off-putting in the pics they show: the creepy-looking customers, or the unappealing peelers.
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