Surviving the Burnaby power outage

Housemate rudely woke me up at approximately 3:42 this morning. For shame! The volume and intensity of his outbursts led me to believe something terrible had transpired. I thought he’d been robbed, re...

Culture and Politics

Nathaniel Christopher / 11 November 2011 / 9 Comments

Nitpicking Leslie Knope’s collection of “national” flags on Parks and Recreation

I love Parks and Recreation and tonight’s episode brought out my inner geek. I had nothing to do tonight so I decided to spend my evening nitpicking the hell out of a show I love. “Oh hey Ben,” says L...

Nathaniel Christopher / 10 November 2011 / 2 Comments

My brother looks just like Emily Carr!

Emily Carr (1871-1945) was one of British Columbia’s best-known artists and my brother Gino looks just like her see: Here’s a video about Emily: And another video that Gino did about media...

Travel

Nathaniel Christopher / 23 October 2011 / 6 Comments

Hanging out with W.A.C. Bennett

A a greeting from W.A.C. Bennett in the fall, 1971 edition of Beautiful British Columbia Magazine. I’m a huge geek when it comes to history. I especially love British Columbian history so when I was i...

Nathaniel Christopher / 19 October 2011 / 2 Comments

Dispatch from Occupy Kelowna

Today I was checking out the sites in Downtown Kelowna when I happened up on the Occupy Kelowna demonstration. “It’s about giving 99 per cent of the people a voice,” said Brandy McNeill who is one of ...

Travel

Nathaniel Christopher / 18 October 2011 / 4 Comments

Public radio in Kelowna

I’m in Kelowna this week writing a story. It’s a beautiful city with a lot of nice people. But yeah, I really wish the darn radio station would refrain from subjecting me to their frequencies. Bah! I’...

Nathaniel Christopher / 16 October 2011 / 2 Comments

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...

Nathaniel Christopher / 10 October 2011 / 2 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving!

My sleep schedule has been quite wonky this weekend. It’s gotten to the point I’ve completely lost track of what time or even day it is. As it happens, today was Thanksgiving but I had totally forgott...

Culture and Politics

Nathaniel Christopher / 7 October 2011 / 11 Comments

The Wall-Street Protest that is “NOT” happening, according to the media is just bad Photoshopping

Okay, the thing I hate most about Facebook are all the unverified, made-up, and otherwise spammy articles, links, and photos that people seem to forward. I’ve been a journalist for over 13 years becau...

Personal

Nathaniel Christopher / 4 October 2011 / 9 Comments

10 years of nathaniel.ca!

Today marks the 10th anniversary of nathaniel.ca! w00t! Here’s a flash animation I made, but never used, for my site: I launched my first website on Angelfire back in 1997, moved over to GeoCiti...