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• 1 landlord // Jul 15, 2010 at 9:48 am

  The dark side of public service. It takes me back to those fondly-remembered days before Vision, the former Friends of Larry Campbell (or should that be formerly the FofLC?). I recall several evenings during which the Mayor was clearly “tired and emotional”.
  And who can blame him? There may have been target on Judy Rogers’ desk, but there was a bigger one on His Worship’s back (Judy’s too, as it turned out).
  Luckily his experience as a morgue attendant and TV star made him uniquely qualified to serve in the Senate, where no-0ne drinks (before lunch).

• 2 boohoo // Jul 15, 2010 at 9:58 am

  They’re human?

• 3 Joseph Jones // Jul 15, 2010 at 10:53 am

  FB says: The council problem is cussing.

  No, the problem in Vancouver is not cussing. The problem is contempt toward speakers at council. Let’s have no more misdirection and disinformation on this.

• 4 Booge // Jul 15, 2010 at 11:06 am

  wtf. Anyone who has set foot on Spring Garden Road knows that there are are more Bars there than cracks on the sidewalk.

  Halogians are never more than an arms-lenght from a drink. Cheers!

• 5 Frances Bula // Jul 15, 2010 at 11:53 am

  @Joseph. Oh, for crying out loud, would you lighten up. I’ve said umpteen times that the F word is not the problem, the real attitude behind the public face of apparent politeness is. It was just a light-hearted post.

• 6 The Fourth Horseman // Jul 15, 2010 at 3:16 pm

  Landlord,

  Ah yes, the Yale has seen many an ’emotional and over-refreshed’ pol in its day…must be the work load.

  Just sayin’…

• 7 Bill McCreery // Jul 26, 2010 at 12:03 am

  Just getting around to reading this. FB you say it was ‘just light hearted post’. I remind you, & me, that people take what you say on face value. So from time to time there will be miscommunications. In my view that’s OK because sometimes your ‘exuberances’ actually get some good discussions going. I’m curious. Is that your intention?

• 8 Frances Bula // Jul 26, 2010 at 3:54 pm

  @Bill. Anyone who reads this blog for a while realizes that I (being a real person and not a robot) frequently make light-hearted comments about many issues. It’s partly the whole being-a-good-hostess syndrome. Just as I wouldn’t invite anyone over to my house and serve them salami and foie gras as appetizers, pork tenderloin as the main course and pasta with sausage on the side, topped by more meat for dessert, I also consciously vary the tone of my posts. That also happens to mesh with how I view the world — sometimes funny, sometimes outrageous, sometimes tragic. I don’t necessarily do it to provoke discussion. Sometimes they do. Sometimes my jokes and “humourous” comments fall flat. But I’m willing to live with that rather than being one of those commentators who spews spittle all the time — a traditional model of commentary, sadly, but very exhausting and not my style.
  (I have to admit, too, that sometimes I forget that some people view me as The Great Authority, with all the positives and negatives that brings, when I’m sitting here in my little cave just typing away, thinking I’m having a conversation with a lot of people interested in the same things I am but with less time available for making intrusive personal phone calls or hanging around committee room 1.)