Here's a Calgary sunrise, looking out over the city towards the Saddledome and Scotchman's Hill. They're still putting up large buildings here and there's a risk they'll go zombie as Alberta's oil economy collapses.
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Thanks, Saudi Arabia, for that. Who knows what the consequences of the Magic Kingdom's oil price strategy will be. For that matter, who knows what this is:
It's in the hotel lobby.
Readers, all three of you, help me out here. What is this "sculpture"?
Thanks,
LSP
12 comments:
The tar sand in Alberta isn't profitable to mine anymore. And even the oil that comes from the fracked shale isn't profitable. Maybe they'll go back to being a cow town. Isn't that what made them?
Maybe if Alberta became a firearms manufacturing mecca, it would replace what they're losing from oil revenue...
The statue of Zwarte Piet in the hotel harkens to Christmas in Europe where St. Nicholas has a little negro helper who listens down chimneys for signs of bad children. Historically Zwarte Piet beat bad children while St. Nicholas, ambassador of God, brought them nice gifts.
Bill Cosby in hiding?
Good grief. Only Ll would know such a thing.
I just thought it was a chocolate Christmas hippo.
I was thinking along the same lines LL. that they'd merged St Nick and Black Pete, tho as Chris Rock exclaimed in an SNL skit, "It's just Pete now!"
I guess the Chinese market for those tar sands has dried up, as well as the Keystone pipeline deal. I heard on the news last night that DuPont will be cutting some jobs all over, which caught my attention since my dad retired from their local refinery.
Zwarte Piet, LL? Interesting, and good firearms call. Looks like Alberta's going to need an alternative revenue generator.
LL's very imaginative, Adrienne!
A chocolate Christmas Hippo, Euripides?
I hadn't thought of Crosby, Infidel. Good call.
As you say, Mattexian, it's just "Pete" now.
To be fair, the photo makes it look like a chocolate Christmas hippo. Or maybe a Zwarte Piet.
It's gotta be one or the other.
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