Remember way back in May, when we encountered the “trees to be planted here” signs up in Saint-Léonard? No? You know, this here?
Well, anyway, we were back up in that area yesterday, and, sure enough, some trees have been planted.… [Read More]
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Cold Weather and Flat Sombreros
We’ve been having chilly, sunny days interspersed with rain, and not much new to report.
One new discovery: the Quebecois tend to have such a superabundance of low-dome sombreros that there are special facilities for their disposal.… [Read More]
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Season 4, Episode 1
Will be airing soon!
We’ve arrived and moved into our place on the north-east edge of Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie. Stay tuned for more developments!
(If you didn’t see them, here are part 1 and part 2)
Jumping back to Mona Awad’s reading list, we’ll start with The Geography of Pluto, Christopher DiRaddo. You might think the story of a gay man breaking up with his ideal boyfriend and losing his mother to cancer would be awfully bleak, but this book manages to make the protagonist’s struggles with loss and grief into something oddly optimistic.… [Read More]
(This is a continuation of the Montreal Reading List, part 1).
In the last installment, I was using Mona Awad’s Reading List as a starting point for my own. So far, most of the authors and books mentioned were from the 1940s-1960s, and described the Montreal of those periods and earlier.… [Read More]
I’ve been meaning to write on the subject of fiction set in Montreal for quite a while. I’ve been trying to read as many books as I can that are set here.… [Read More]
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Nous sommes de retour
When we first decided to embark on this adventure, it seemed like half a year was a long time to spend in a place. But how quickly the winter just flew by!… [Read More]
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Internet and The Old Port
Yesterday, both Manon and I were just about to start meetings over the internet, when my notebook started throwing server not found errors.
Down in the data closet, the modem’s lights were all dark, except for the one, sad blinking “trying to sync” indicator.… [Read More]
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Urbanist Trifecta
It was our first weekend after moving in, and there was no internet. So on that Saturday, I went on a morning adventure that was an urbanist trifecta: I bicycled, walked, and took the metro.… [Read More]
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Très bien!
Online again… More posts to follow.