Everybody is publishing photo reports, so I decided to create one, too. Tell me how you feel about photo reports as a regular feature of this blog.
Two minutes after I left my sister’s house, I came across this street:
I’m sure everybody understands why I had to take a photo of it. Montreal is always building, expanding, transforming. It’s a very vibrant city that is constantly alive. Unlike the St. Louis where I live, Montreal never looks, sounds, or feels dead.
I walked down St. Denis Street, which is one of the most fun streets in this great city. St. Denis is filled with galleries, small quaint stores, coffee-shops, restaurants, bookstores, etc. You can spend all day long exploring this street and still have a lot left to do here on the next day, the day after, and the day after that.
St. Denis is a place where many of my favorite stores are located. This is the amazing Kusmi tea store:
Kusmi teas are expensive but they are extremely delicious. When you brew a pot of Kusmi tea, your entire house fills with the delicate aroma of the tea. If you do decide to try it, please don’t buy it in tea-bags. A tea-bag is a nasty perversion of a beautiful creation of nature that is loose-leaf tea. And it isn’t that hard to brew loose-leaf tea. If you are new to the idea of brewing tea, I highly recommend this extremely easy to use and inexpensive teapot.
This is how Kusmi Tea looks inside.
After buying tea, I decided to indulge my secret taste in cheap gyro plates. There isn’t a cheap gyro restaurant for a hundred miles from where I live, so I have to sneak out to get a plate whenever I’m in Montreal.
I ate the entire thing and it was lovely. And then I went to buy pants. Which probably wasn’t very smart, given that I’d just devoured a huge plate of food.
Here are the pants:
Please notice that I tried to be as American as possible and even tried on a pair of jeans. At this rate, I will probably end up buying my first pair of jeans before I retire.
Today we are going to Ottawa, and I promise a photo report from that city, too.
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Clarissa, have you heard of the video of Judge William Adams, “who is a judge for Aransas County, which is in the Gulf region of Texas”, abusing his disabled daughter?
AM wrote how it’s a cultural issue in fundamentalist Christianity:
http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/the_culture_of_christian_child_abuse
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Yeah that thing is like a Faulkner novel come to life.
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Btw, I haven’t watched the video until the end, but it’s connected to the recent abuse carnaval you participated in in several ways. A comment from Pandagon:
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I haven’t been able to follow the story but my sister told me about it. At first, I thought that it was great that the abused girl found the strength to condemn her abuser. Often, abused children defend the abusive parent fiercely.
Then, however, I realized that the girl is simply being used as a pawn by her mother in her post-divorce campaign against the husband. This means that the victim of abuse is still nowhere near any insights that could eventually liberate her. And that’s sad.
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Lovely pix. I wish I lived in Montreal and not in fucking Texas, where judges whup their palsied technophile daughters.
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I want to share with you wonderful songs in Russian and English (original musical in French) “Мюзикл Ромео и Джульетта”
I thought may be you would love the song Отец И Дочь by А.Маракулин (мюзикл Ромео и Джульетта), which sings Juliet’s father. I liked other songs, like “Verona” (in English) and Красавцы и уроды (quite bawdy song, be warned) too, but Отец И Дочь is so touching & real that pushed me to share.
http://mp3ostrov.com/?string=%CC%FE%E7%E8%EA%EB+%D0%EE%EC%E5%EE+%E8+%C4%E6%F3%EB%FC%E5%F2%F2%E0
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Here from YouTube this great song
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Oooh! I like the look of Kusmi Tea. Here in Victoria we have Teaopia and David’s Tea, which are my lifeline for loose-leaf tea.
Funny enough, the best loose leaf tea I ever enjoyed came from Missoula, at a shop called Butterfly Herbs. I miss it on occasion.
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I had to look up what a gyro plate was, here we call this yiros.
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Hey, if youre in Ottawa give me a shout, you can come to our clinic for a massage. On the house of course. 🙂
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Thank you, my friend! It’s too late for that now but next time, for sure. 🙂
I had no idea you were in Ottawa. Lucky you!
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I always enjoy your posts that rave about Montreal and the french. I originally grew up in Laval and now live in East Ottawa along with my frenchie wife(Acadian and Franco-Ontarian) and our 2 kids. I think all Americans and others should go to Montreal for a least a short visit. 🙂
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I couldn’t agree more! I’ve persecuted everybody I know with exhortations to go to Montreal. I think the city owes me money for promotional activities. 🙂
Raves about Ottawa are coming up soon. 🙂
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