Christmas in April

I don't know whether you've noticed, but the weather is warming up.  It probably has something to do with the two cars in every driveway on our street, but also with the amount of oil and coal being burnt in Alberta to power the extraction of more petrocarbons from the Oilsands, to drive the two cars in every driveway.  In the 1950s people carried on as if it would be a great thing to change the weather.  But no, it sucks.  Weather is the manifestation of time in the world and a source of its meaning.  There should  be variations from year to year, with the extreme years ten or twenty years apart, to give them time to become storied, not one record warm year on top of another.  Winter here used to be snowy.  Now it's icy, because the temperature keeps slipping above and below the freezing mark.  I'm adaptable, I bought Yak Trax for my boots.  But it pisses me off.  I'm pissed off at Ontarians who equate personhood with a driver's license, and I'm pissed off at Albertans whose idea of conservatism has so little to do with conservation.

Douglas

Comments

[Alan]

I sold one car and bought a bird feeded. Fuck 'in warmth. Though I sucked it up and played some b'ball this morning.

Chinese coal. That's the villain.

[Alan]

Plus - you can now get fig trees to put out in pots: http://www.grimonut.com/

I bet my figs kick your figs butts. Challenge!!! Don't be a fig 'fraidy, now. Double dare you.

[Douglas]

You're on. Of course you realize you've challenged a guy who has eight-year-old compost in his backyard composter. Vintage compost. Power compost.

[Alan]

I have a rat living in my compost. My figs will be filled with the shit of rats. You are doomed.

[Douglas]

There's a rat in the compost.
What I'm a gonna do?
There's a rat in the compost.
What I'm a gonna do?

(after UB40)

[Alan]

Rat in the compost
Doug know pain
He grow the figs
But he makes no gain...

(after "Mirror in the Bathroom")