Walking home last night from Hero's Welcome, the old ANAVETS legion at 23rd and Main, scene of too many indiscretions committed by students, faculty and sessionals of UBC's "success-oriented" Creative Writing Program, but now a sparkling place made safe for $7 pints and, where Thursday was once Karaoke night, "Thursday Night Football" and the barking dogs who watch it.
The picture up top was taken a couple blocks west of Fraser Street on the south side of 19th. An unfinished house and an almost-full moon. Today that moon will be fullest, and I'll be at the Rickshaw for the release of Art Bergmann's new album and the long overdue launch of Jason Schneider's biography of the man, the myth, the legend.
That section of 19th between Main and Fraser is what was once known as the Tea Swamp. The "tea" being Labrador Tea, a common and effective indigenous medicine for all manner of things, except post-colonial syndrome. Those who live in this part of Vancouver will know that's why the ground beneath them is unstable, an instability that is most evident in the up-and-down nature of the sidewalks, which are unsafe at any speed, especially after a night of pints.
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