Nice “Drug Addiction” Photos
Some cool drug addiction images:
Ho Ho’s Roasted Pork – a Good (aka Ho) Example of Excellence in Texture
Image by Sifu Renka
While the portion size of the roasted pig impressed, I was taken by its gloriously golden crackly-crisp skin. I’m always afraid of cracklings that are thick and chewy, or semi-hard soggy crisp, but the one from BBQ Master wong was like potato chips – snappy, filled with tiny bubbles, and incredibly crisp. The flesh beneath a supple layer of creamy fat was surprisingly lean and dense, but almost too lean. I had to do a double take. This roasted pig was from a big pig and not a suckling pig, which I’d imagine to be a little more moist. Either way, this was still very good texture wise. I could only imagine how it would be like with Berkshire pork!!!
Tastewise, besides the non-greasy crispy crackling, the flesh was mild in pork flavour… a little too mild (slightly bland). I know that Francis mentioned the ample seasoning applied to the pigs, but unlike many others I’ve had in the past, there was an absence of sodium and five spice powder flavours.
Either way, for the quality and price, I’d gladly return if only for the crackling – addictive like crack (or what I’d image having a drug addiction is like). Indeed, it is one of the best roasted pork skin I’ve had.
the silver jews @ webster hall 3.17.06
Image by ezola
aboard a plane to austin, still on the JFK tarmac. captain just announced that the plane is overweight so eight people have to come off before we can leave. good to be back in the states, fuckin supersize fries.
the doors opened for the silver jews concert at six (sic). there were two opening bands, we arrived at 9:15 after eating at a highly authentic low-quality mexican food restaurant around the corner from elliott‘s loft. when we got there we found out that berman & co were already on stage. we arrived in the middle of the first song.
everyone who follows this band knows that david has had some tough years with depression, multiple drug addictions, and a suicide attempt. he looked fairly well put together considering. his voice was predicably worn but easily recognizable – he’s one of these male singers who don’t really sing, he talks melodically over the music. his wife cassie has a strong stage presence, and the affection he demonstrated toward her onstage was one of the coolest parts of the show. the set was ridiculously short, a little more than an hour. he played a lot of the greats, but they’re all great so anything he played would have been great: random rules, how to rent a room, pet politics, horseleg swastikas, dallas, punks in the beerlight, sometimes a pony, trains across the sea. toward the end cassie played an excellent dead-esque country song, which dave said she wrote. elliott claims to have recognized it, though i am sure i have never heard it.
webster hall is a superb venue, an old building with a balcony, ornate carvings in the walls and one enormous disco ball. dave was uncomfortable on stage. the show ended shortly after ten and the audience was incredulous. none of the ~500 of us were willing to leave. the lights went up, the background music came on and finally after 15 minutes he came back and sheepishly told everyone how lazy he is, that he’s "been avoiding this for 15 years, gimme a break." that said, he seemed genuinely touched and surprised at the adulation. he played _there is a place_ as an encore. during that song, a fan jumped on stage and grabbed dave’s red trucker cap, which was on the ground next to him, and did a bellyflop back into the cowd. cassie, so much more composed than dave (who seemed put out just by being on stage) politely demanded that he give it back. she said it was dave’s lucky hat. the fan returned it.
when dave wasn’t strumming his guitar, he was searching for a pack of cigarettes in his pants, and ultimately had to excuse himself for a few minutes to find one backstage. i got the impression that the guy is just cashed out, a jittery former addict now trying to keep it together, touring for cash. he couldn’t even remember his own lyrics. he was reading them from cheatsheets and even still made a couple errors, but his myth is so overwhelming he could have spent an hour pissing all over us and we would have loved it. great show.
picture courtesy of thesevensteves.
Don Adam
Image by Renegade98
‘Pickton planned his murders’
‘How are [the jury] going to feel when they find out everything?’
Damian Inwood
The Province
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
‘Look at the drug addiction and squalor that goes on down there. Do you think that Willie Pickton just entered this picture out of the blue? We created a pool that no one cared about and he went to it.’ — Don Adam, former head of the Missing Women’s Task Force
A Mountie who interrogated Robert Pickton says that, after looking into the serial killer’s eyes, he felt "a real sense of malignant evil."
The now-retired RCMP Insp. Don Adam — former head of the Missing Women’s Task Force — said yesterday he feels justice was not served when Pickton was convicted of six counts of second-degree, not first-degree, murder.
"If there is a person here who doesn’t know that he planned those murders, then I’m on the wrong planet," he said outside B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster.
"I just had the smallest sense, as he was playing with me, of what it must have been like for those women when they were in his control — and it didn’t make me happy."
Pickton was convicted of six counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of "missing women" Marnie Frey, Georgina Papin, Brenda Wolfe, Andrea Joesbury, Sereena Abotsway and Mona Wilson.
The DNA of the six Downtown Eastside prostitutes was found on Pickton’s Port Coquitlam pig farm.
Adam said he felt that the Pickton trial jury "did their duty" when reaching their verdict, but added: "To me, full justice wasn’t done."
But he said they should have had all the information available.
"I believe that we’ve let them down," said Adam. "We took a year out of their lives, we didn’t give them everything and then they did what they could. I don’t know how they’re feeling right now.
"How are they going to feel when they find out everything, and haven’t we betrayed them?"
He said he’s convinced that Pickton was guilty of premeditation in the six murders.
"Willie Pickton is a chameleon," he said. "Don’t get confused about his capabilities. He got every break in the world because people underestimated him."
Adam would not comment on the question of whether Pickton acted alone, saying he didn’t want to risk prejudicing his upcoming trial for murdering a further 20 women.
He said he believes that when trial judge Justice James Williams hands down his sentence he will "make things as right as he can."
Williams will decide whether Pickton will eligible for parole from his life sentence in anything ranging from 10 to 25 years.
He said VPD investigators put their hearts and souls into the case.
"Can you imagine having the weight of that on your shoulders and not winning?" he said. "As you go through police work, you leave little pieces behind. You miss a file like that and you’re not able to bring it home. There are chunks of you left behind."
Adam said although police are now better at handling missing cases, the basic problems of the Downtown Eastside live on.
"Unless we drive some real changes and make something happen down there, this has all been for nothing," he said. "Look at the drug addiction and squalor that goes on down there. Do you think that Willie Pickton just entered this picture out of the blue?
"We created a pool that no one cared about and he went to it."
© The Vancouver Province 2007