Just about 14 months until another city election and Gerald Tremblay still hasn't tipped his hand on whether he wants to run again. If Denis Coderre decides that he wants to run for mayor then Tremblay will likely quit. Here's a poster downtown denouncing Tremblay's policies.
Hadn't seen the knife sharpening truck in some time, maybe he's been diverted by more business up in gang-teritory (kidding). But yeah, a pic of the actual driver would have been nicer. You'll note there's still no phone number on his van.
I was a long-time cheerleader for the old Blue Angel Bar neon sign that was long affixed to the back of this building on Drummond, but alas it has been covered with a shitty plywood sign for the new arab eatery.
Someone wrote me with this query a few days ago: "I'm looking for the name of some former montreal model/supermodel. Female. Apparently she roams st catherine streets in some creepy make-up and walk wearing a balck outfit...Know anything, or her name? My co-workers were telling me about her but no one remembered her name." ... Don't know.. but would this oddball (at left) do in the meantime?
This place, (right) Thursday's on Crescent is closing this weekend. Last-ever day is on Sunday. I'm told it has been crowded like crazy by people who want to go one-last-time but it seemed pretty chilaxxed this aft.
...And last but not least, a charming piece of message graffiti I found in a laneway off Drummond.
Apparently all that will be needed to instigate another election in Quebec will be endless street demonstrations, for which some rabble-rouser student or union leader will be "rewarded" with a government position. How brain-dead can an electorate be? Needless to say, there will be a price to pay for such retrogressive folly--or should I say "Franco-folies"?
ReplyDeleteI don't care what anyone says about Jean Charest, but he did his best under the circumstances and it's been well-established historically that NO politician or party can expect to weather more than two terms in office without a steady buildup of internal shenanigans and fatigue--and that goes for ANY democratic country. I wish him well in his future endeavours and look forward to witnessing the inevitable repudiation and dismissal of his lunatic successor.
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That empty parking lot on Drummond must be the one facing Fire Station 25; the lot upon which two vintage apartment buildings--the Alsace and Lorraine--stood before they were unceremoniously demolished back in the 1980s directly behind the Chez Paree on Stanley St. Took them long enough to finally build something new there. Let me guess: another over-priced condo, no doubt.
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I recently caught up to one of those sharpener's trucks which had stopped at a traffic light and asked the middle-aged, Francophone driver if he had a business card. No card, but he did volunteer his phone number (which I didn't bother to memorize or write down), and also telling me that he worked out of an apartment on Chester Avenue in NDG. Surely a Chester resident who reads this blog will have spotted his truck parked around there and know more details?
Are we moving to a 6-day week? What's happening to Thursday's?
ReplyDeleteRegarding the model/supermodel, the girl in the photo has a "Eve Salvail" look. She was the first shaven head supermodel in the 1990's and had an Asian dragon tattooed on her scalp. So, if this girl is 5'10 with an Asian dragon on her scalp, then it may be her. She still does some modeling on occasion, for example for Jean-Paul Gauthier.
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I saw a woman who looked at awful lot like this miss waltzing about on McGill College, and then later on Ste-Cat's, maybe about a month ago, high as a kite and/or off-meds. She was screaming and yelling incoherant babble and rifling through the garbage receptacles.
ReplyDeleteOne of those "Wow, she'd be really attractive if she weren't accusing the garbage of stealing her shoes" situations we've doubtless all experienced.
I believe I saw that woman near Sherbrooke and Guy last weekend. She does have some kind of a tatoo on her scalp as well as some pretty freaky makeup (tatoos?) on her face. She appeared to be very crazy. She was screaming and flipping off random people.
ReplyDeleteI see that Eve Salvail look a like a few times a week around Concordia. Salvail has a dragon tattoo on the left side of her head, and in the picture this girl does not. I thought it was Salvail the first time seeing her though. Salvail has been doing music for the past years, and Wikipedia says Salvail returned to modelling in 2011. I want to ask her if she was Eve Salvail but she is so strung out, she would probably attack me! It would be quite a fall if it is her, not unlike Nelly Arcan.
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I saw that particular woman on McGill College Ave last week. I was on the second floor but noticed her around the corner of St. Cath in exactly the outfit in the photo. But based on her walk and lack of hips I was sure that she was actually a man. Also agree that she seemed to be high on something. I did not hear her voice so perhaps she really is female.
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