Photos taken in the Peewee’s Playhouse children’s party room in the Philippe Starck-designed Paramount Hotel, around the corner from the amazing and long-since-gone Howard Johnson Diner that had wonderful yet cranky matriarchal servers, across the street from the Marriott Marquis Hotel which was the former site of the NMS (New Music Seminar) Conference.
Randy as a pot-bellied Cub Scout trophy winner, and shirtless Bill at the top of the stairs at his old 19th Avenue house a/k/a “the cub house”. These were sent out to perhaps 800 radio stations, newspapers, magazines, record stores, and writers and Mint pals — the American ones mailing-labeled and postage-stamped in an unused classroom around the corner and down the hall from the venerable college radio station, KCMU 90.3 FM (now known as KEXP) in the Communications Building on…
Today, we learned that Milo, the sea otter in the otter exhibit in the Vancouver Aquarium in Stanley Park whom we here at Mint faithfully check in on several times a day thanks to the aquarium’s webcam (here: http://www.vanaqua.org/ottercam/), has lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system’s lymphatic cells that is the seventh or so most common cancer in humans.
According to the aquarium note, lymphoma in sea otters is very rare, and Milo will be kept outside of public viewing…
There were three times when ghosts were thought to have visited us in the Dominion Building. Interestingly, all three occurred relatively recently, while we were occupying the top floor of the building, aka “the penthouse” and also the site of The Pack a.d.’s notorious signing party.
Most recently, Shena, coxswain of HMCS Mint Records, came to the Mint HQ after office hours to prepare for a yoga session in the building next door to the Red Gate and JC/DC Studio
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Room 606, Dominion Building: our first office
After a while in the back room at my dad’s travel agency, we got the itch to move to our own office. It just seemed to make sense; we had been steadily taking over a closet at the travel agency, and the things we needed were multiplying. Parking also was an expensive pain; towings occurred from the alleys and loading zones, which were annoying (though, truthfully, well deserved).
Bill had…
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