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San Francisco, 2015.04.21

The conference officially kicked off today, so naturally the first event was so over the top that it defied belief. I was sitting next to Emily, a native to San Francisco. As we watched the actress Jane Lynch lead a "cyber" version of David Bowie's "Changes", Emily and I gritted our teeth and made witty comments. I jokingly told her that this was the sort of spectacle that Canadians expect when in these Excited States of America.

rand()m quote

Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

—Anton Chekhov