“Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, -- a people starved and stabbed in the untilled fields...” ~~~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

3 gates in ole QUEbec

Porte St. Louis
Porte Kent
Porte St. Jean

more photos, maps click here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/paulbt47/Quebec2010#

my trip to Quebec City, mid-March, 2010

In the Circus

What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

- Jeph Jacques
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

- Augusten Burroughs
Hello seeker! Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute.

- Firesign Theatre

Iris

the iris is the Fleur de Lis

IRIS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQXcwogHe6g&feature=fvw

When I was institutionalized, my brain was studied exhaustively by the guys of mental health. I was interrogated, I was x-rayed, I was examined *thoroughly* and declared clean of any STD'z, or being a prevert!.....so there...?

TOdag

Cassandra in Greek legend, you recall, was condemned to know the future.... but to be disbelieved when she foretold it. Hence the agony of foreknowledge combined with the IM-potence to do anything about it......

Churches

RED-doors

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?~~~Charles M. Schulz

When I was institutionalized, my brain was studied exhaustively by the guys of mental health. I was interrogated, I was x-rayed, I was examined *thoroughly* and declared clean of any STD'z, or being a prevert!....so there...

There's the television. It's all right there - all right there. Look, listen, kneel, pray. Commercials! We're not productive anymore. We don't make things anymore. It's all automated. What are we *for* then? We're consumers, Yeah. Okay, okay. Buy a lot of stuff, you're a good citizen. But if you don't buy a lot of stuff, if you don't, what are you then, I ask you? What? Mentally *ill*. Fact, u out there, fact - if you don't buy things - toilet paper, new cars, computerized yo-yos, electrically-operated sexual devices, stereo systems with brain-implanted headphones, screwdrivers with miniature built-in radar devices, voice-activated computers...

Abstract

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist, or I'd draw a ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect spiderman.Jean Michel Basquiat > Art Work, Artist, Abstract , Art Contests, Expressionist, Drawing
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.Clement Greenberg > Art Work, Likes, Landscapes, Sculpture, Painting, Abstract
For me, the nude body is like a raw material.. another artist might use oil or clay. I love the fact that, en masse, it can be turned into an infinite number of shapes or abstractions, while the setting I choose.. rural, urban, indoors or out.. is like a canvas.Spencer Tunick > Create, Human Body, Nude, Abstraction, Shapes

Sugar/Bush

IN the Sugar-Bush

That that starts sweet ends bitter,

and that which starts bitter ends sweet.

Bush

FronteNac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hdL65J8m9A&feature=related

Back

Back from my trip to Montreal and Quebec City
I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.
Jack Nicholson

Well, he or she is totally screwing with our kids head-spaces! Who does he or she think he/she is? Just look at him/her! You can totally see his/her nipples! Thats obscene maybe. Well i am going to find him or her and give that bastard or bitch a piece of my minds.

"For what is the hope of the hypocrite,
though he hath gained,
when God taketh away his soul?"
— Job 27:8

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations