Lond Ho Adventures

Lond Ho Adventures Part Ten

(a bit of a rehash, but what the hell, tis the season!)

DECEMBER 1992

It’s always at this time of year, when the BVS Towers foyer is decorated with gigantic X-mas trees, tremendous silver balls, pink bows, and golden garland, X-mas muzak piping through the PA system, that one hears a barrage of ads on the radio and TV about those ‘less fortunate.’ Apparently these are the people who aren’t as fortunate as those who own radio’s and TV’s.

Granted, these are people without food for the holidays, but are they not hungry all year around, and not just the third week of December? Whatever. Not everyone considered ‘less fortunate’ is going hungry however, some of them just don’t have enough cash for expensive prezzies for their six kids they made the choice to squeeze out, and even for these kids there are a myriad of ‘toys for kids’ programs; just visit any mall in town if you have a doubt about this. I cannot help to reflect also that if X-mas wasn’t hyped so, if it wasn’t built up by our ultra consumerist society, that those who have a little less than others when the holiday season rolls around would not be so sad, so distressed that their kids don’t have all the latest toys, video game consoles, and two-hundred-dollar-a-pair trainers, which are by the way manufactured by dirt poor children in fascist countries that the Federal Liberals support with heaps of taxpayer money.

People in this country don’t know what ‘less fortunate’ means!

Happy X-Mas

Happy X-Mas to all of my friend(s) all over the world. Gosh it's been quite a year at the ole "Hunter" flat. It seems like five minutes ago it was December 2003, and now it's nearly January 2005! Oy vehy!

There is still no NHL hockey, the season currently being in the 78th or 79th day of the lock out, but the Spengler Cup is currently underway in Europe, ant that tournament is chock full of NHL millionaires playing the game for next to nothing compared to what they were getting here... oh well at least Chelsea is still on top of the premireship.

We moved onto a new place in May after being kicked out of our quiet little place in Mission because the billionaires that owned the place (and at least five other buildings in the neighborhood) wanted to make even more money (how much is enough for these people?) so they did some slight renovations to the place and made them into $150,000 condos. We live in a bigger place now in Sunalta on the very busy, very loud 11th avenue SW. Sure it's a bigger and better place, but it's not in Mission goddammit!

Over the past year I've managed to send out samples of the first book to twelve publishers, only one of whom has bothered to send me a rejection note. So I will say this: even though you don't want to pick up my work, thanks Arsenal Pulp Press for at least having the stones to reply to me, and let me know that no one wants to read about single young males humorously struggling to find themselves.

Anyway, I'm working for the evil NortelNetworks now, well not really for them, as they don't hire anyone but underpaid contractors through an agency anymore, but I'm working nonetheless. Oh yeah, I hate it and I find it hard to actually get any REAL work (ie writing) done.

Well thats all for now as my back is killing me from not having a proper desk chair to sit in. So Happy New year to all! And to all a good week!

Joe Hunter