“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

Water

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.~Rodney Dangerfield

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Archemedes ate arugula. Galileo did not. I think I’m with Galileo on this one. I believe the ancient Greeks ground it up and made soup or something. They didn’t have Campbell’s Chicken and Stars yet so they made do with arugula and pined for the future when cans of Campbell’s fine soups would be available everywhere, even in ancient Greece. They were dreamers, those old Greeks.

Earth - dust 2 Dust

"Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat—glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?"— Frank N. Ikard

"At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
— George Orwell

Lake

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas

must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
H. L. Mencken

Flesh

SHYLOCK: The pound of flesh which I demand of him Is deerely bought, 'tis mine, and I will haue it.
23:14 Of all the earth - That is, of all flesh, or of all men; the way which all men go; I am about to die, as all men must. To die is, to go a journey, a journey to our long home. And Joshua himself, tho' he could so ill be spared, cannot be exempted from this common lot. He takes notice of it, that they might look on these as his dying words, and regard them accordingly.
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Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!
~Tommy Smothers

Lunch

Ask not what you can do for your country.

Ask what's for lunch.~~~ Orson Welles

Fish

"I think I'm more comfortable with being disappointed."

Here last week they found this couple out in California. They rent out rooms for old people, kill'em, bury'em in the yard, cash their social security checks. Well, they'd tortur'em first, I don't know why. Maybe the television set was broke.