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Do not work for Mommie Dearest (Craigslist ad)

LB — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 08:24:04 +0000

I’m expecting that this Craigslist Vancouver ad (text at bottom of this post) will get so much abuse it’ll be taken down soon, so I’m cutting and pasting it here.

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Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan or DTES LAP

LB — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:25:43 +0000

The Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan or DTES LAP is a comprehensive plan for a significant area of downtown/East Vancouver. It goes before City Council this week, where Council seems likely to pass it despite significant opposition.

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Easy To Be Hard

LB — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 22:31:33 +0000

Cheryl Barnes singing Easy to be Hard, probaby the best track from the film version of Hair. The song was written by Gerome Ragni, co-author of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical.

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101 Nights

LB — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:09:54 +0000

Add a ladle every night
To every ladle, add a light

101 Nights is an art installation by Vancouver writer and broadcaster Bill Richardson, and it ended tonight on the winter solstice.

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So you think you’d like to live in a church…

LB — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:22:18 +0000

When I was a kid my parents had Arlo Guthrie’s record Alice’s Restaurant , a spoken folk song plus narrative set in a converted church in Massachusetts in the sixties, and I knew the full monologue off by heart.

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