{"id":1161,"date":"2009-03-30T00:47:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T04:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2009-03-29T21:48:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T04:48:37","slug":"so-much-bubbling-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2009\/03\/30\/so-much-bubbling-up\/","title":{"rendered":"So much bubbling up"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we work on MetroCascade<\/a>, I continue to be amazed by all the bloggers, events, and sources that we uncover (ok, that I<\/strong> uncover!).<\/p>\n

One twenty-something dude told me that he didn’t think there was any value in uncovering the cool stuff in Victoria. He didn’t think there was cool stuff in Victoria.<\/p>\n

Whatever. I’m nearly 3 decades older than he is, and I remember all the cool stuff that I enjoyed in Victoria BC when I was 14, 15, 16, 17 years old: the Churchill pub (ok, I was underage\/ drinking illegally: bite me), now reincarnated as the Jellyfish Lounge (and still troublesome!); Sappho’s (an early 1970s private gay bar in Victoria, unlicensed, where you could dance till 4 a.m. and then go to a 24-hour cafe – Scott’s! – for a butter tart and cup of tea, before heading home at dawn); the Quee Queg Cafe in Bastion Square (oh, scan thru this comments thread<\/a> for more info on Valdy<\/a> – Valdy? Jesus, I completely forgot about that darned old hippie<\/a>!); amazing events at local music venues; the list goes on…<\/p>\n

And the point is that it’s still going on. What I saw in my underage degeneracy wasn’t a fluke. It was normal for here.<\/p>\n

You know, it’s like that Magritte<\/a> painting:<\/p>\n

\"Rene<\/p>\n

Ceci n’est pas une pipe<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This is not Victoria<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

(….Oh yes it is.)<\/p>\n

\n

(PS: I was never a Valdy fan, by the way. I wasn’t a folkie. Still don’t like the style. Just saying. I do remember that one time, when I was 14 or 15, I was hitchhiking on Hillside Avenue with my friend, and we got picked up by Mose<\/a> Allison<\/a> and his band. They were in town to play a concert at UVic. We told Mose<\/a> in the most sage tones we could muster that UVic was out in the sticks, and that he and the band really should go downtown instead. True.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we work on MetroCascade, I continue to be amazed by all the bloggers, events, and sources that we uncover (ok, that I uncover!). One twenty-something dude told me that he didn’t think there was any value in uncovering the cool stuff in Victoria. He didn’t think there was cool stuff in Victoria. Whatever. I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1242],"tags":[5268,5266,5267,5269],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_so","tag-churchill_pub","tag-quee_queg","tag-sapphos","tag-valdy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}