Nyan Cat attends Occupy Vancouver!
Yesterday I attended the Occupy Vancouver protests… because Michael Moore said so! I couldn’t summarise any coherent points into a sign message so I just wrote “Meow!” I decided against bringing the s...
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Vancouver up in smoke – the 2011 Stanley Cup riots
Watching the mayhem unfold all the way from Burnaby… I could actually see the smoke billowing up from the downtown core!
My bus driver reads Whoopi!
Buses are an essential part of my life yet I know so little about the women and men who ensure I get home safely every night. But today that changed. When I boarded my bus this afternoon I noticed the...
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Real estate ad showcases VERY messy (hoarder?) apartment!
The third season of the TV show Hoarders premiered this week but I think the real show might be here in Vancouver where real estate trumps reality television in what the fuck. My friend Tamara Paulin ...
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Y2K compliant DVD player at the Salvation Army
If you ever need to feel old or irrelevant there’s perhaps no better place to hang out than your local thrift store where items that seemed so marvelous and useful in your youth are unceremoniously st...
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Vancouver water not really from Ontario
Throughout the Olympics I’ve really been impressed by the presence of other Canadian provinces and Territories in Vancouver. It’s good to see and feel the presence of the different r...
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Expo ’86 Posters!
The other works I noticed this poster near Hastings and Willingdon. It’s since been ripped down and replaced with fireworks adverts so I thought I’d blog about it. It’s a message fro...
Shantel and Nathaniel’s first new video in three years!
Back in 2005 my friend Shantel and I used to make tons of videos about everything we could from alcoholic dogs, posessed dolls and jilted would-be lovers. But, life intervened and we put our filmmakin...
Taking the new SkyTrain
So… On the weekend my brother and I took a ride on the new Canada Line SkyTrain in Vancouver. We rode the train from Vancouver City Centre to Bridgeport in Richmond. The trains are wider than co...
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Fashionistas line Skid Row
In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside it’s not uncommon to see throngs of hard up people lined up around the block for a hot meal, clothing or some other social service. It’s not uncommon to see apr...