http://aletta.blogdrive.com/ Passing Time with the Reaper Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:15:03 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2008. Art Writing Photography http://aletta.blogdrive.com/archive/103.html Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:11:25 GMT It was on the news the last few days. I have to wonder how they didn't see that coming? There have been enormous outbreaks of infestation in the east end for at least a couple of years. I've blogged about it for at least two. The health department knew it, I spoke to them about it. The social worker (I am on disability) I spoke to about my fears of the infestation knew all about it. It was someone from the department of health who told me about lavender, also boric acid, but I knew about that already. I took the photo below in August 2006, when the problem as already being addressed in... (more) http://aletta.blogdrive.com/comments?id=103 http://aletta.blogdrive.com/archive/102.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:49:31 GMT All the best. http://aletta.blogdrive.com/comments?id=102 http://aletta.blogdrive.com/archive/101.html Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:12:33 GMT It's been a while since I've given a progress report on life after the mugging. Somehow mugging sounds like it should be a little funny, so I'll say it was a robbery assault, because it reflects much better what it really was. That event of course, was followed almost immediately by the loss of homes by neighbours a block away when the city decided to close their building for not having been properly maintained. This is when I learned the local residents association (note these do not include anyone who might be renting their home) was on the warpath against any building they deemed a... (more) http://aletta.blogdrive.com/comments?id=101 http://aletta.blogdrive.com/archive/100.html Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:04:21 GMT Are my Neighbours really heartless facists? I am tired of all the negativity projected onto my building by a residents association I had never heard of until reading and article interviewing them on the building I live in, brought on by the mass evictions at 2100 block of Pandora Street. That building, which after a flood brought on by a despicable lack on maintenance had the city mass evict the tenants. Those tenants are having a very rough time finding housing, mostly because there is none, none that would approach the level of housing they had in that fated building. They had their own... (more) http://aletta.blogdrive.com/comments?id=100 http://aletta.blogdrive.com/archive/99.html Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:30:34 GMT Still have the same bloody headache so the last few weeks have not been terribly productive. Nonetheless there has been movement. In another week I can pick up my passport after which I can get the local Identification (which required a passport or local birth certificate, hence the passport first. Yesterday I finally got my replacement bus pass, so that means I can get about, and it won';t cost me every time. Unfortunately my knee isn't getting better as I would like and it caused me grief, in time it might get better. The police are closing my file, or rather it is now inactive as... (more) http://aletta.blogdrive.com/comments?id=99 http://aletta.blogdrive.com/archive/98.html Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:31:44 GMT I mentioned a little while ago that I was concerned the city could close my apartment building for criminal activity or repairs not being done. Already one apartment building in East Vancouver and several residential hotels "SRO" (single room occupancy, had been closed down. Residents are/were given three hours to collect up their things and get out. Temporary shelter was found for one to three days, then they were told they would have help "relocating". This terrifies me. I realize the city is looking for more space to build accommodations for the Olympics. ... (more) http://aletta.blogdrive.com/comments?id=98 http://aletta.blogdrive.com/archive/97.html Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:10:04 GMT It is getting chilly at night and the days are less and less sunny, and I dread the cold winter ahead. There is more I dread and it bother me to even say of write of it, denial offers comfort, especially when there is just and overwhelming amount of the negative in day to day life. Where I live is no palace, definitely not. I am at the bottom of my life without much chance of improving my lot. Whereas some years ago I had a full time job and my own business, and was teaching master classes a couple of times a week, now I am a breath away from homeless. My crime was that I had the... (more) http://aletta.blogdrive.com/comments?id=97 http://aletta.blogdrive.com/archive/96.html Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:29:46 GMT For those of you interested in visiting this gallery when you are in Vancouver it is on East Hastings, just past the fashionable bits of gastown on the south side of the street, at least it will be there until this block also falls to the demolition plans of the city to restructure everything for those two weeks of the winter olympics without any concerns for the needs of the population which now, because life has handed some lemons is their rat infested, bedbug riddled homes. The question is ...the rest of this article... - Also in Textiled with Textpattern http://aletta.blogdrive.com/comments?id=96 http://aletta.blogdrive.com/archive/95.html Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:19:32 GMT It no doubt give away my age that I was a big fan of the old series "The Prisoner", which evolved from the earlier Danger Man, Secret Agent with Patrick McGoohan. It was a surreal re-education camp for spies who knew too much but were too good to be merely snuffed out. Large globes would keep strong minded individuals from wandering away and without ability to communicate with the world. That's how I started on this series of images, as an homage - tongue in cheek - to "The Prisonert;, via some big brother discussions of late. Notably the matter of Flickr's complicity in... (more) http://aletta.blogdrive.com/comments?id=95 http://aletta.blogdrive.com/archive/94.html Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:24:03 GMT China used Yahoo to imprison and thereby torturing a Blogger for use of an arbitrarily tagged as "unsafe" image. Please read this, we all need to know and act according to conscience. "Censorship in China - Excerpts from Amnesty International USA www.amnestyusa.org/Business_and_Human_Rights/Internet_Cen... Amnesty International first reported on the issue of freedom of expression and information in November 2002. In the report State control of the Internet in China, Amnesty cited several foreign companies - Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Nortel Networks, Websense and Sun... (more) http://aletta.blogdrive.com/comments?id=94