truly, maddly, deeply

This is it until the new year, now it's all about friends, family, food and fanfare...

[Geek Chic]
At the CCA - Actions: What You Can Do With the City - a fantastic exhibition on social, environmental, artististic, political contexts and activity in urban environments.

[Creatively speaking]
After happening upon his work in a small town in Nova Scotia, turns out Zane Turner is in Montreal and his work is being shown at Espace B51, a fantastic contemporary gallery on St. Paul.

[Heard]
Via Barcelona, discovered Pablo Diaz-Reixa, the man behind El Guincho, album is El Guincho Alegranza.

[Pages]

I desire a little ruby wine and a book of verses,
Just enough to keep me alive, and half a loaf is needful;
And then, that I and thou should sit in a desolate place
Is better than the kingdom of a sultan.
Edward Heron-Allen (1861-1943) translated from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

[Up Next]
December things get crafty at the Souk and Petits Pains

[Yum]


[Travels]
Dervla Murphy - traveller and writer, just a few interesting bits here:

In the midst of a record-setting blizzard in 1963, Dervla Murphy packed a pistol aboard Roz, her Armstrong Cadet bicycle and set off on her first international bicycle tour - a completely self-supported solo trip from Ireland to India. In Yugoslavia, she began keeping a journal instead of mailing letters home. That journal was later published as her first book Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle, in which, she describes her adventures through Persia, Pakistan and Afghanistan. She particularly enjoyed Afghanistan and wrote lovingly of that country.

most recent book is about Cuba...