{"id":1807,"date":"2015-01-19T10:40:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T15:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fmeat.org\/blog\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2017-08-14T15:17:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:17:41","slug":"rouyn-noranda-you-stole-my-bike-and-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fmeat.org\/blog\/rouyn-noranda-you-stole-my-bike-and-my-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouyn-Noranda, you stole my bike and my heart."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok fine, Claudine! Are you happy now? Here it is! My very first Quartiers d\u2019hiver<\/em> blog post. You want me to talk about myself, right? Tell people who I am and what I eat in winter (that\u2019s a beautifully horrid translation of a quite charming french expression<\/a>)? Well here goes nothing.<\/p>\n

Those of you who were at the last FME edition in September might remember seeing some of these Lost Bike<\/a> posters around old Noranda.<\/p>\n

\"Po\u00e8me<\/a><\/p>\n

I made those. It was my kick-ass bike that was stolen on that early Sunday morning of quite possibly the best weekend of life. I didn\u2019t let it bring me down. I couldn\u2019t. I was having too much of a good time to let some jerk ruin my fun. I made silly posters, mostly to make myself smile, plastered my second favourite mining town, and kept on partying.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_7305-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t just make ridiculous Lost Bike posters for a living. I also pretend to DJ every once in a while under the alias DJs Masqu\u00e9s<\/a>, spearhead We Live Up Here<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a community arts collective called in my hometown of Sudbury<\/a> (Rouyn-Noranda\u2019s twin brother on the Ontario side), and do design & communications work at my creative agency Studio123<\/a>. Oh, and than there\u2019s Up Fest. After developing an uncontrollable jealousy for the city of Rouyn-Noranda brought on by many FME editions, we decided to stop slacking. We are in the process of creating a new urban art festival that embraces the Nickel City\u2019s downtown core. We\u2019re calling it Up Fest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Participating in the genesis of any new cultural happening is inspiring and exciting. But that\u2019s a topic for a whole other blog post. We\u2019ll get to that next week.<\/p>\n

And now for the happy ending. Phone rings in November. \u00ab\u00a0Salut Christian, c\u2019est Marc Talbot de la S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Rouyn-Noranda. J\u2019ai de bonnes et de mauvaises nouvelles.<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Start with the good news\u00a0\u00bb, I answer. \u00ab\u00a0On a trouv\u00e9 ton v\u00e9lo.\u00a0<\/em>\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Yes! And the bad news…?\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Finalement, y\u2019en a pas de mauvaises nouvelles!<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb Christian is happy.<\/p>\n

Rouyn-Noranda, you stole my bike and my heart. I got my bike back, but you can keep my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok fine, Claudine! Are you happy now? Here it is! My very first Quartiers d\u2019hiver blog post. You want me to talk about myself, right? Tell people who I am and what I eat in winter (that\u2019s a beautifully horrid translation of a quite charming french expression)? Well here goes nothing. Those of you who … Continuer la lecture de Rouyn-Noranda, you stole my bike and my heart.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,621],"tags":[418,417,416,415],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe","category-quartiers-dhiver-2015","tag-christian-pelletier","tag-quartiers-dhiver","tag-sudbury","tag-velo-vole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmeat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmeat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmeat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmeat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmeat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmeat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmeat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmeat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmeat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmeat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}