no sellout, no bagskate

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2. l'avenue des canadiens-de-montreal

delaG starts at peel, best be updating yr garmins. or do they autoupdate?
it rained. JMol doesn't wear a jersey and i like that. people who aren't famous habs look as strange in habs sweaters as habs superlegends of yore do in civilian clothes, or aging or dying and the bits in between, helicopters and racecars and autobiographies.

new monument: a big slabby thing with the names of everyone who ever played a game for the habs, and (apparently) some one-gamers with habs unbrellas to gladhand and pose, interview and anecdote. i like the all-names, i mean to go see it early tomoro morning and finger it. goofball mayor tremblay in full election swing smiles and holds street sign: de la gauchetiere infront of the BC is now CdM.

okay: now how about renaming st-l and beaubien l'avenue des italiens and st laurent and rachel l'avenue des portugaize and so on and so on until every lamppost has its ethno-cultural bannerstuff and one can wander around drunk and stoned speaking a foreign language (american) and still be able navigate the 200 km2 of montreal centrale.

renaming a (dead end!) street after the business in the building which occupies its entirety is no great honour, its a navigational simplification, and apparently a stop on the stump for goofball mayor GT. it was cute and nice to do it the same day as the slabby ceremony (in the rain) but really, where's the prestige?

let's talk about de la montagne: old street, very famous, adjacent to BC, home de nos glorieux; not named after anyone, no political overtones possible from a historic descriptive change: yes, you used to be able to see and mount le mont royal, but now that you can't really see it anymore, the bell centre is just to your left. "de la montagne" and "canadiens de montreal" have similar sylable sounds whence mumbled.

or perhaps wellington street, snaking through downtown, pt-st-charles and verdun. there's about 10km of honour and prestige. sure, the locals would moan about it but what act of great honour Doens't involve a whole buncha people getting pissed off?

or the train station? that's like delaMontagne, just a description: central station. gare des canadiens de montreal. windsor station is now fancy offices and expo space, and new windsor station can be habs station. what am i saying? fuck windsor? basically.

place du canada? place des canadiens.

or how about the greatest honour of all? someone dropping the $30M it would take to buy the naming rights and allow the habs the dignity in playing in an eponymous arena, or one named after one of its brightest icon, maurice richard.

no streetsigns, no sellout