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Ok, so anyone want to go out for a drink, at some place, at some time, this week somewhere here in Vancouver?
We will likely have our baby.
Sorry, not there this week now. Or would have loved to.
You will have to stop here on the way back. ;)
yea, i'm in.
Hope to see you soon!
"We will likely have our baby."
Eh? Other than congrats on the baby, that comes as a bit of a surprise.
Is there an eastern swing being planned?
Let's do this thing.
Are you channeling Gary Gilmore, Catchfire?
I don't drink. I also find this city a bit intimidating(I officially moved in April) Could we get together at my place of residence?
Of course CMOT. I would love too.
Oh balls! Part of me says "great! I get to meet Cue and here his activist war stories and geek out!" and then I think "gosh! I don't know Cue from Adam and if I give my adress to him he might give it to people who are less then trustworthy, who would then rob my apartment.
I'm sorry, I know I'm being silly, but I've never done this before. There's an organic cofee place at the entrance of Vancouver Island. The tenants here call it Pedro's, although I'm not sure whether that's still it's name. Could we meet there? It's about 20 minutes from the group home where I live.
Hey. That sounds great. Whereever. I can get down to Granville Island very easily, and I am basically free except for Friday night, so why not just PM me a time and a place and we can meet there, tomorrow afternoon. I don't know about activist war stories. I am actually pretty boring, in real life.
How long are ya staying?
Til the begining of August.
Let me know when you're back and what I can do!
CMOT, N.Beltov, and Cue, along with Cue Jr. and Mrs. Cue met today at Granville Island. Woo hoo
Yes we did! it was a great time.One more example of how Babblers are from uniform. Indeed with each new Babbler I meet I am struck by the diversity of Babblers. Very interesting talking to people in a more social context. The board gets dry sometimes.
I will be going to the Saturday demo for civil liberities at 1:00 pm at the Downtown Vancouver Library. Anyone wants to meet up before and go, let me know.
I swear man, next time I'll do better.:(
There was so much that didn't get covered and my charm just seemed to evaporate. You weren't too offended right?
Give the kid a big hug from me.:)
We had a great time. There is only so much that can be covered in so much time. I wish we hadn`t been late
I met another friend from the ANC later in the day. I hadn't seen him in 20+ years. Friendship born in struggle, if it's genuine to begin with, is friendship for life. The Babblers i met today, for the first time, were much the same.
Off to jericho beach. will not be able to make the demo. am still here on the mainland until monday pm, in case you/cue would like to down a few ales, something we were unable to do, eg, in burnaby there is a great blues place called the marine pub.
How did the civil liberties demo go?
It was good. For Vancouver, considering that it was about Toronto, not bad at all. About 200 enthusiastic people. Some people who were identified as the Black Block showed up all in Pink, but not much happened there. Certainly no broken windows. They started a chant: "No Justice! No Peace! Fuck the Police". I heard they had some personal confrontations with some other protestors but this was so much verbal argument, so nothing to serious.
Other than that it was a nice sunny day and the police were perfectly civil and did their job of directing traffic around the march and observing casually from a distance. I think (maybe) they followed the Pink Block contingent as it left the rally, but I didn't see anyone start anything up.
Oeerall good. It was very good to hear from three witnessess to the event, including a young lady who was shot twice by rubber bullets. Don Davies from the NDP said something pretty funny about Dalton McGuinty. Of course one wants there to be a huge crowd but the main thing was that it happened and people are organizing.
We need to keep the upward pressure on the establishment.
Im sorry i missed it. I got broiled at Jericho Beach Park instead.
That is the problem with organizing in Vancouver, there is always Jericho Beach.
How about tomorrow night? I have no idea where this "Marin Club" is, but I think maybe even I have heard of it. Burnaby, should be able to make that in some form or another.
Marine Pub. Live blues I think. I will call you tomorrow ... at a reasonable hour.
That sounds cool. But maybe its a bit far out for me for a late night, since we have the logistics of a baby and all. I might be able to swing a baby sitter for 4 hours or so, but the whole night is a bit of a problem. There is a cool place nearer to me that would probably be better, come to think of it.
No music but a good crowd. Lets talk tomorrow.
no problemo.
I'll call between 6 and 7. tonight.
Sufficed to say, the pleasure of meeting the Cueball family today was mine.