2000-12-21 - 09:50:25

So here I am in Thunder Bay with the euphoria of having completed some cat tunnels in the snow with my little sister, Cassie. She is presently considering her options carefully as to whether tomorrow has the potentiality of becoming a snow day considering the sheer amount of the white stuff that has been accumulating here in the north of the north, the armpit of Canada (or Thunder Bay for those of us who hail from its parts!). In any case, for those of you who were aware of my proposed travel plans there is a reason why I am here much earlier. Attempting to cross the American border into Detroit I was rudely and quite crudely detained and refused entry in the United States of Fascist Totalitarianism and Racism (acronymised to USFTR for functionality). So here I am, back in the good ol' Ontario northland having been tossed back to Windsor Ontario, spending all night in a Tim Horton's with another Canuck reject and finally getting somewhere with a comfy bed after more than forty-eight hours jumping from bus to bus, waiting in Po-Dunk, small town Ontario for morning playing simple games of cards with a poor 17-year old Timminsienne who didn't know what to do because she was rejected from the country where she was going to spend time with family over Christmas.

Oh say can you see that this nation of fools has squandered the art of idiocy and perverted it from its respectableness into something that is hurtful, hateful and most repugnantly, blind. It doesn't necessarily augment my already white-hot hatred for the nation state but it acts as way of solidifying it as repressive and oppressive as it never has before.

But I'm on leave. So I shall continue to make cat tunnels with Cassie, in hopes that it will freeze over night and eventually we will both fit and they transform themselves in human snow tunnels!