le cho

For anyone who is at the last minute scrambling on their satellite-linked lap-top to find directions to the ultra-impressive, totally-insane, spectacular-spectacular art show in the Langley Civic Facility, then dark not the door of that wry demon, "Mapquest", but rather feast your eyes on the post-ceding (namely) directions:
1.Go South on 200th off of Highway One (the trans-Canada)
2.Go East (left) on 64th off of 200th
3.Go North (left again) on 203rd off of 64th (after save-on)
5.Pull right into the parking lot by the tall, mostly empty-looking building without the bright lights or dancing girls.
6.Proceed to the fourth floor in your blackest of black outfits and begin to hem and haw thoughtfully at what you find, looking vituperative.

edgar

I mentioned Edgar in that last one, but only just. Edgar Phillpotts Barkey is an oversized lab / bordercollie / whothehecknowsmutt. Lest you be tempted to call and make his aquaintance, know this: Edgar is a punk. He is a mischeivous, scheming freak. His ridiculous cuteness is a ploy. Do not be fooled!

vituperation

No, I don't have a clue what that word means. It's just gotten itself lodged in some subconscious crack of my brain, like a persistent piece of spinach. I decided to update this thing and when I opened the page the "title" line just stared out in aweful whiteness, taunting me. I quickly parried this blow and thrust a word into the emptiness. Now, pardon me a moment as I grab the dictionary to see if maybe I did know the meaning, and something in my milieu provoked me to vituperate.

"vituperate v.t. address or find fault with abusively"

Nope, I don't see it. At the moment I wrote that word, Edgar (the puppy) was safely slumbering behind the toilet and Anya (the girl) had shut herself in the closet and was attempting to get me to play peek-a-boo. Ergo, I am indeed tippy-toe dancing on the edge of the lake of lunacy.

an art show

For all who are close enough to care. I will be part of an art show in Langley at the end of October. Some of the most talented artists in British Columbia will be contributing. For more info., check out www.ilya-thereis.com Be there or be a cubist.

the nature of a man

Here is the question of the day (and there are three options): First, are people evil (fallen) by nature and the only choice they have available to them is to do good things, so that if they are not actively making a choice of action, then they will be doing evil? Or, Second, are people (redeemed) good by nature and the only choice they have available to them is to do evil things, so that if they are not actively making a choice, then they will be doing good? Or, Third, are people neither good nor evil by nature but rather morally neutral, oscillating along through life between the opposite polarities of good and evil, free to choose one or the other, but never free to choose neither?

Before you jump on one or t'other - think about it. I'm not sure the answer is easy, and good arguments could be made for all three. Feel free to email me your thoughts.

expansion

Have you notice how long my updates have been getting? This web journaling-a-ling is addictive. Ramble ramble ramble goodbye.