will be in calgary this weekend

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what will i be doing.

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 4 April 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Going to MEC to buy crampons?

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 5 April 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

so far i have bought a black t shirt with the word libertine in pink letters.

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 5 April 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Anthony, please tell me nice things about Calgary. There HAS to be something redeeming about the city. I never heard a good thing about Calgary ever.

Also, ple.... CRAMPONS??

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 5 April 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Best thing I heard about Calgary is that it's the Canadian Dallas, but cleaner and duller.

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 5 April 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Crampons, for if you start bleeding while on a mountain.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 5 April 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

17th avenue has two v. good bookstores, and i bought 100 dollars worth of books today. The glenbow has a gr8 collection of canadian art, cree objects and other pretty things. he Devonion Gardens are free and have many nice plants. My grandmother makes a decent pot roast. The LRT is better then edmonton. I enjoy the burgers and steaks at the husky house. You can get drunk and see strippers at the queer bar detours, then stumble out and see JESUS IS LORD painted on black on white wall, at least 20 feet high. Vanilla Ice is playing cowboys next week. That said, it is rich, hermetic and hates people who walk.

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 6 April 2003 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

Currently here until Friday morning. Listening to the Am I Right? show on CJSW. So far this city ain't too bad.

― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Thursday, 28 June 2012 05:55 (twelve years ago)

it is rich, hermetic and hates people who walk otm

― dylannn, Thursday, 28 June 2012 09:32 (twelve years ago)

^^ yeah
it's also full of histpers/20somethings who are way too self conscious about going the right bars/restaurants/gigs etc. I'm sure every city has these but somehow it's always felt more concentrated in Calgary.

If I were in Calgary right now and weather permitted I would do a bike ride around Bowness where it links to Silver Springs via pedestrian footbridge. SO NICE. And I'd visit Marda Loop to see how it's doing these days. And then I'd check out the re-opened Devonian gardens (though apparently it doesn't house abandoned pet turtles anymore).

― salsa shark, Thursday, 28 June 2012 11:30 (twelve years ago)

Drove around downtown last night; the city looks new and bulging and gleaming and half the skyscrapers looks straight out of Sim City.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a3/BowTower_Mar2012.JPG/450px-BowTower_Mar2012.JPG

Missed my flight home this morning and there's of course no way in hell to get to vancouver thanks to the holiday weekend, so i'm stuck in the airport hotel until tomorrow. bought a transit ticket, now need to figure out how to navigate Calgary Transit to reach a train station.

There's construction everywhere out here, so I can only guess how quickly the city is sprawling out without any urban planning or land-use procedures.

― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Friday, 29 June 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago)

yeah it's weird
edmonton/other western canadian cities are sort of the same, just an unplanned zoning disaster
you drive through the city and it's GIANT EMPTY LOT, GENERIC POWER CENTER (rexall, subway, td, starbucks), BUNCH OF WAREHOUSES, GIANT EMPTY LOT, BLOCK OF CONDOS, GENERIC POWER CENTER, BLOCK OF SINGLE FAMILY DWELLINGS, LANDFILL, MALL, sprawling to the horizon, spawning satellite towns that will one day be absorbed into the greater metro area.

― dylannn, Saturday, 30 June 2012 10:52 (twelve years ago)

so, it makes public transportation hard to plan. hard to build an effective system with shit spread all over the fucking place. have to cross two freeways to get to the nearest safeway.

― dylannn, Saturday, 30 June 2012 10:53 (twelve years ago)

eleven months pass...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1048017_471986596216978_1993898947_o.jpg

good luck, alberta. mandatory evacuations in calgary affecting 100,000 people, dozens of towns in a state of emergency. here's the scene in canmore yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBt5MISANm4

any ilxors with flood stories? dylannn, are you far enough up the icefields to miss this?

― Plasmon, Friday, 21 June 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago)

i'm too far north. there was flooding here, about the same time last year, and i was on the prairies at the start of the summer this year, when there was quite a bit of flooding, and the summer has been wet, two weeks of fairly steady. at the same time, there've been landslides west and south of here, so highway 1 east of golden is out, and highway 93 is closed or questionable.

calgary's fucked, though. high river.... it's especially impressive to watch the flooding because i recognize all of the spots on the news. #prayforwildrose

― dylannn, Friday, 21 June 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago)

Aerial views of the flooding in Calgary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLtGxmwKLaw

― Plasmon, Sunday, 23 June 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.canoe.ca/Travel/TipsTrends/Trends/2013/10/02/21168846.html

― c21m50nh3x460n, Thursday, 17 October 2013 06:15 (eleven years ago)

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