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Ontario Place gone just in time for summer, pt.2
Posted on June 16th, 2023 – Comments Off on Ontario Place gone just in time for summer, pt.2If you don’t understand the nostalgia that Ontario Place generates in geriatrics like me I invite you to take a wistful gander at the video below. But before you start kvetching about how, by today’s standards, the place sucks, I’d remind that this was the olden days and us kids were just happy as fuck not to have to walk 15 barefoot kilometers in the snow to school.
This video might leave you with the impression that Ontario Place could be the upswing but the reality is that its fate was sealed and loaded onto the S.S. Therme which sailed some time ago.
One the one hand, a spa-and-water-based attraction on the grounds is not that out of place. On the other, the promo material makes it look a little exclusive and pricey. The current admission price of FREE makes it hard to compete.
I suppose there’s always Trillium Park but with half of the unique and scenic path through Ontario Place now off limits, it just gives the small trail a melancholy feel.
Just in time for summer.
Parkdale Operative
Posted on June 14th, 2023 – Comments Off on Parkdale Operative Filed under: Dispatches, Patrick Bay, Pictures
Ontario Place gone just in time for summer
Posted on June 6th, 2023 – Comments Off on Ontario Place gone just in time for summerTurns out that had I visited just last week I would’ve had some souvenir photos of Ontario Place but as usual the government quietly gave everyone the middle finger and fenced off most of the area “for the collective good” (paraphrasing mine).
So, in a very apropos way, this year’s winter photos from the western tip of West Island will be some of the last ones I have.
/sectionb: BLACK OP
Posted on June 4th, 2023 – Comments Off on /sectionb: BLACK OP… in which an unexpected solution to a few big problems presents itself.
You scribble a few words about secret agents and “a guy” shows up
Posted on June 2nd, 2023 – Comments Off on You scribble a few words about secret agents and “a guy” shows upSometimes when I tell people about these things, even if they’re being polite, I can see that they don’t really believe my “stories”.
The thing I was talking about earlier, for example … if I described the guy I spotted pacing back and forth in front of the “base of operations”, especially in the context of my writing, my audience would probably nod politely and wander off to find someone less “imaginative” to chat with. They might even be insulted, maybe not be so polite.
So I feel that trying to impress on people how much of the material in stuff like /sectionb is drawn from real life would be futile. I’d just get the same checked-out stare for my troubles.
But I get it. The world around me so often resembles a movie or a comic book that even I sometimes have trouble believing it.
The guy I surreptitiously surveilled in these pictures, for example … assassin? Cleaner? Who can tell? And who’s alive to be able to tell? Did I just do a bad by posting these photos? Am I now a marked man? Will more men like him come?
So many questions.
Naturally, after these were taken and after the guy finished rummaging around the trunk of his sleek and muscular jet-black Audi (naturally), left behind two discarded gloves on the road, and drove off.
Two!
The plot congeals …
/sectionb: KOMPROMAT
Posted on February 13th, 2023 – Comments Off on /sectionb: KOMPROMAT… in which Brock and Rebekah put on a convincing performance and a deep secret is revealed.
/sectionb: BLOWBACK
Posted on February 12th, 2023 – Comments Off on /sectionb: BLOWBACK… in which inspiration opens locked doors and an escape plan is hatched.
/sectionb: SHINDAN ACADEMY
Posted on February 12th, 2023 – Comments Off on /sectionb: SHINDAN ACADEMY… in which Section B runs up against some closed doors in their pursuit of a hastily retreating Shindan Academy.
/sectionb: INFILTRATION
Posted on February 12th, 2023 – Comments Off on /sectionb: INFILTRATION… in which the premises of Shindan Academy are unsuccessfully penetrated. An intriguing twist emerges.
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