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They look all cute and cheery on your ride, but they’ll cost ya: stop draggin my flag around Tweet this
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If you haven’t heard, Karen and I have made a bet with Carrie Underwood about the Canucks/Preds series. If Nashville takes the series (ha!) we’re giving $937 to her favorite charity, and if the Canucks win she’s signing one of her guitars and letting us auction it off for Basics for Babies. We had her [...]
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The 100th anniversary of the PNE started off with an afternoon concert by The Beach Boys and Bryan Adams. Locals still love Bryan Adams, especially on a sunny Saturday afternoon. I spent it in the press box with other members of the media; radio and t.v. This was my first time at Empire Field, too [...]
This is cool! If you donate money to charity, you can download your photo to be displayed on an actual Canada Line train. The more you donate, the larger your photo will be! Click on the link below to check it out! Pixel Train Tweet this
Pictured here is an early 80s Volkswagon with rhubarb where the engine should be. Those Germans have a cheeky sense of humor. Actually, this spectacle on 16th at McDonald and several others like it around Vancouver are the work of the Stick Shift project. It’s a performance art/political statement/pie-filling project, where the motors of various [...]
That’s what Nick the Guy called himself for the Waking Crew’s Popsicle Patrol. Understand that we only gave him the job (which was to load a cooler with popsicles and hand them out to sweaty Vancouverites) then he decided he needed the proper ‘outfit’. That’s a hippie wig and headband, fake shaggy ‘stache, aviators, wife [...]
Not sure if you’ve seen this one floatin’ around the last week or so (thanks for forwarding it, Anne Lu!) but as a fella who’s just listed his Vancouver house for sale this week (heyyyyy, you wanna go faster?!?) Crackshackormansion.com is some good sarcastic fun at the expense of Vancouver’s stupid-uber-hot real estate market… Tweet [...]
My wife Anne and I had an incredible dinner and an awesome night recently. If you’re looking for a unique way to celebrate (with a spouse or anyone else, really) Edible BC‘s “Cooking with BC’s Best” dinner series in Granville Island market is a treat. Two or three nights a month after the market has [...]
At our house, my instant reaction when Sidney Crosby scored that in-freaking-credible OT goal (after snorting Coke Zero through my nose) was to run outside and listen to what my neighborhood sounded like. Someone on false creek across from GM Place had the smarts to set up their video camera, mic on, as the OT [...]
Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor After tonight’s broadcast and after looting our hotel mini-bars, we’re going to try to brave the blizzard and fly east to home and hearth, and to do laundry well into next week. Before we leave this thoroughly polite country, the polite thing to do is leave behind a thank-you [...]
Thanks to Crystal Darche for finding this. With Virtue and Moir becoming instant national icons of grace and style, it’s easy to forget that if you’ve got a DSLR camera with a super quick shutter, you can capture some funny funky pictures of skaters in shall we say, “less than delicate” poses. Here’s The 20 [...]
My wife Anne and I packed up the kin and surfed the big red and white wave downtown for most of Sunday. Truly an astounding show of Canadian colors on the streets…love love love it. Started high-fiving Russians on their way to GM Place for their date with the Czechs. They seem like such nice [...]
It’s great to be Canadian…we don’t show it off much but when we do it’s a guaranteed good time for anyone in the area. From the torch relay to the opening ceremonies, to the first gold medal on Canadian soil…the swelling was obvious. We can even put our French/ English language differences aside for the [...]
This is wild…did you hear about the major flashmob that was put together on Saturday afternoon on Robson? Props to the organizers for recognizing the chance to do something spectacular amid the wall-to-wall bodies on Robson for the games. Not to mention doing it for a great cause. This event was designed as an awareness [...]
Wowwwwwww….the opening ceremony was OUTSTANDING. It managed to be very Canadian and yet not stodgy or beige. Which is kind of shocking: we actually appeared to be cool on a world stage. (Aside from the epic cauldron fail…tipoff for me were Steve Nash’s eyes darting around…you could see panic setting in). Shane Koyczan’s slam poetry [...]