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09/01/2005: "On The Beach"

After running around the city this morning I escaped it, again, to do some reading on the island. It's funny, I'd do the same reading in my room, in the library, at a café, or on the beach - but being on the beach makes me feel a little guilty. It's like going to see a matinee film. It doesn't matter if I might stay up till 2 one night sending emails and other stuff - the beach during the week is just a guilty place full of small-time Raskolnikovs.

The beach wasn't very crowded, but it was a perfect day of blue skies and perfect cotton ball clouds, the kind children paint badly but goodly. I think I'd like to go back this weekend and maybe watch the CNE airshow. The airshow is bad, probably, for all the usual reasons one isn't supposed to like the shows of military and gasoline powered might - but from Hanlan's Point it's actually quite nice. The planes roar overhead, just before they get in formation. When swimming, the reverberations from the jets' afterburners makes the entire lake vibrate. It's certainly something to feel, probably not unlike the sub-woofered hot-tub at the CNE I wrote about in eye Weekly this week.

The City of Toronto cleaned up the huge mess that was there due to the Aug 19th storm. There was some new debris, probably from the Katrina rains, but nothing to get excited about, and after watching nonstop CNN this week, almost not worthy of mention.



Sometimes the boats sitting in the water near the beach do look pretty, but I think it's a little like someone driving a car in to a park then (if they behave like the boats) play Dark Side of the Moon or some really crappy pop-techno really loud. There are other things to worry about right now though, but if there weren't, I'd try and get some kind of ban on pulling motor boats in so close to shore. There is always a really thin oily slick on the water when they're around. Maybe it's good for the skin and ears/nose/and/throat. I do feel nice and soft when I get out.



These pictures were all taken with my LG camera phone. Not great, but not so bad.