a horse did whinny...*

"a horse did whinny in the afternoon -

he had no pity for the old buffoon...

a horse did whinny in the pale sunlight -

he had no eyes, he had no insight...

 

a horse did whinny in the middle of the day,

a horse did whinny as if to say...

go away... go away... go away...... go away..."* 

[* the selected lines are lyrics from a song by Enzio Verster of Half-Chinese, a too-cool Vancouver band on the move to Montreal...]

["Horse did whinny" is the first song on their album We were pretending to be released by Sad Game Records, 2012]

before the love...

 "In the silence he hears an answer coming.

From far away.  A kind of coarse child's voice.

It rises, a bellowing from the hill.

A roar of mingled notes.

A long-hoarse trumpet from the Iron Age.

Perhaps from inside himself."*

[*last two verses from "Downpour over the Interior" by Tomas TRANSTROMER, 1966...translated from the swedish by Robin Fulton, 1972]

up china creek yo...

yo mama's house?...here bitch yo...

the Vancouver Parks Board has since replaced the missing "i" and the halfed "e" but did not see fit to remove the scratched in letters above the "Ch" that makes it into an archaic racial epithet, thereby perpetuating and perhaps also condoning the handiwork of racist oINKers...

yo bitch, listen to "china creek" by half chinese from their album we were pretending to be...hear bitch yo...

and on various youtube vids...

[more shit on China Creek Skate Park here...yo...]
 

sinosigns

 be they painted over...

brushed onto stone...

 gilded onto glass...

 affixed onto walls...

scripted horizontally or vertically,
these signs in Chinatown have no need of english translations to convey the character of the sites they adorn...

*this should be an auspicious post to announce the release of the first album of my son Enzio's band Half Chinese..."We were Pretending to be" (Sad Games Records, 2012)