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Funk over. What a wonderful little setting for Snow Day. Avalon Road in the James Bay Neighbourhood is just down the street from South Park Elementary and around the corner from Emily Carr's family home. 613 Avalon I mentioned earlier is in the photo above. Victoria's smallest public park is just at the end of the road. In the summer, it's where I sit and eat oysters for lunch while reading. It's all as cute as a button.
I won a ticket to the 2009 Victoria Comic Convention and - unless I missed something - it was weird. Without a word of a lie, prettinear every patron wandering the hall of the Harbour Towers Hotel was a body double for the Simpsons' Comic Book Guy. I was disappointed. With the number of great authors and artists who have chosen illustrated storytelling as their medium, exemplified by the Vancouver Art Gallery's recent Krazy! exhibition, I didn't understand how tables of DC back issues, porn star wannbes, old Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek actors combined with a few folks dressed up as Darth Vader were anywhere near relevant. The whole thing put me in a bit of a funk about "Snow Day". Maybe my funny bone was amputated when I broke my arm!
