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@GREENKEY - good question! I live a couple blocks away from some really great restaurants and pubs, and tend to have social dinners in those places instead of at home. so when I decided to turn my seldom used dinning room into the main area for socializing, I kept my grandmother's drop-leaf table in the space next to the sofa (right under the mirror). on the rare occasion when I throw a dinner party, I can position the drop drop-leaf table in front of the sofa and bring out the chairs that match the table for seating along the other side the other sides.

@KASSGOOD: all panels were 'chalked' in 2003 when I was working on my honours research essay exploring the expropriation and demolition of Ottawa's LeBreton Flats back in the 1960s and the subsequent visions for rebuilding on that land:
- the 1st contains an excerpt from Tori Amos's commentary voiced over her song "Gold Dust" (source: Scarlet's DVD); the narrative speaks to Washington DC's physical role in defining, representing, and emobying a certain view of national identity;
- the 2nd is a (fairly lame) personal resolve statement, penned c.1998; a naive manifesto of sorts, if you will;
- and the 3rd contains some quotes from Philip Jenkin's "An Acre of Time", with the following being one of my favourite extracts: "Cities have always been cannibalistic. They eat up large chunks of their own pasts, chewing up landscapes & buildings and regurgitating them. This municipal mastication implies a kind of hunger, the hunger to replace then with now, to recycle stale visions of a city with fresh ones." More than a bit morose, but I think there's a ring of truth to it, especially when it comes to North American cities and conventional urban planning.

Scott here :)

@THESMILEQUEEN: I'm fairly certain I picked up the spice containers at a local store called The Great Glebe Emporium. Unfortunately I can't find any manufacturer's stamp on them.

@R K: I found that table lamp at Zone in Ottawa. I just checked their website (www.zonemaison.com) and don't see it listed in their catalogue anymore, but they might be able to identify the supplier is you write them. For reference, the sticker on the bottom indicates "Ella Porcelain Cutout Lamp".