One Saturday in August, I decided to cross the Ottawa River to go to Gatineau (Hull), Quebec for the first time since I moved to Nepean in December 2004. I wanted to check out the Hull Toys R' Us and the Renaud-Bray bookstore in the Promenade de l'Outaouais shopping centre (which had, apparently, become an Archambault bookstore).

I took an STO bus back to Ottawa, and, on the bus, there was this Anglophone teenager who was talking to everybody. I think he said he was originally from Dominica or something (the small island nation in the Caribbean that shouldn't be confused with the Dominican Republic).

Anyway, he noticed that I had my good film camera, the Nikon F65, with me (which I had because I wasn't able to grab the Ricoh Caplio digital camera because my father was sleeping in his bedroom and I didn't want to disturb him), and he wanted to pose for me, in a Gangsta pose, flipping me off, though it's just a joke.

After I took this photo, he spotted a hot girl just before the bus crossed the Ottawa River back into Ottawa, and he wanted to get off the bus but the bus had already passed the last bus stop on the Quebec side, so he had to make an unanticipated trip a few dozen metres into Ontario, which he bemoaned.

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Here's the Holden Efijy concept car on display at the General Motors showcase in the parking lot of the Athens Coney Island diner in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak during the 2007 Woodward Dream Cruise.

When I think of American car companies that operate in Australia, I primarily think of Ford, but GM also operates in Australia through their subsidiary, GM Holden Ltd.

The Holden Efijy is a retro-styled concept car with a design evocative of the automobiles of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially the Holden FJ (which was made in 1953; I guess Australian designers were still into curvy styles while American cars were beginning to sprout tailfins).

From Wikipedia:

Richard Ferlazzo was the designer behind the Efijy project. He began sketching the first designs in 1989. The main reason for making this car is purely for entertainment. “Invariably, people smile when they see it for the first time. Efijy is our accolade to the talented designers who cut loose with some fantastically flamboyant styling in the post-war 1940s and 1950s,” Richard Ferlazzo said. “Ask the question, ‘what would these people have created using all the skill sets and technology we have now’, and Efijy might be the all-Australian answer to that question," in relation to the original FJ designers.

The engine used is a Chevrolet 6.0 litre LS2 V8 engine that has been supercharged and modified by Ron Harrop, an ex FJ racer and well respected automotive person in Australia. The engine produces 480 kilowatts (645 bhp) and 775 newton metres (560 ft·lbf) of torque through the rear wheels.

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Here's an OC Transpo Nova Bus LFS mired in deep snow on Meadowlands Drive near the intersection with Merivale Road in the Ottawa suburb of Nepean.

Even though it's March, it's still very much winter in Ottawa.

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A shot of the rear of the Holden Efijy concept car on display at the General Motors showcase in the parking lot of the Athens Coney Island diner in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak during the 2007 Woodward Dream Cruise.

I have no idea why I didn't post this when I was posting the other pictures of the Efijy.

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...drawn on a sheet of card much too large for my scanner, even if I scan it in chunks like my other, smaller, drawings, so I had to photograph it.

I'm submitting this drawing by mail to The Great Crayon Experiment art show at the Blank Space gallery in Seattle this coming February.

This drawing is based on this photo that I took in downtown Ottawa on December 2nd, 2007.

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