I found work

After 10 months of trying, having been laid off from my previous post as professeur due to you-know-what, I have found employment.  This means that I may not be posting with the relative verve seen in the last few months, but as I am a believer in la longue durée, I am not going away.  Unless, of course, I am squashed by a faceless algorithm.  Cheers all, and I will see you shortly.

Joseph, homegrown

This kid has a pretty hilarious take on being an internet celebrity face.  He is refreshingly bullet-proof in his commentary.  Queen Anne Revival architecture is one of the constant parts of downtown living that I recognise, so it was only then that I realised he was Canadian, and from my city.  He lives up near Wonderland, but comes downtown to Queen Street to hit the clubs.  Canadian, but also Assyrian, he's a minority Iraqi Christian, probably part of the Church of the East, which also means he's uncut.  Double Wow.

Summer is here

Here she is with 'the Munshi', who was much cuter in the movie than in real life.  Victoria Day marks the first weekend of what Canadians consider the coming summer, good, bad, or indifferent, and being Canada, believe me, it could be any of those.  We're the only ones in the Commonwealth who celebrate her birthday, not even the British celebrate it.  It certainly goes along with how Canadians have considered themselves colonials all this time (that's not a complaint!).  We only got our constitution, called the Charter of Rights, in 1982.  We considered the basis of British Common Law good enough for us since New France was lost by Louis-Joseph de Montcalm (such a pity!) all the way back in 1759.

Argentinian Manuel Kornisiuk, care of Rui Jorge, Raul Villalba, Rafa Casares, Angel Ruiz, Reinaldo Leo Corredero, et al