AllTheRecycledWordsmithingThatFits LeaningOnTheParkingMeterVille “Jesus died for somebody’s beer, but not his.” Mr. Beer ‘N Hockey’s that is. _______ Catch her at the just the right moment, like maybe during a New…
BowlandWho? SafetyFirst!Ville When the German-built ‘Coastal Inspiration’ crashed into the dock at Duke Point last week BC Ferries spokesthingy Deborah Marshall told us not to worry our pretty little heads…
MoreFactsLessDriveBys SpinoramalamadingdongVille Of Keith Baldrey’s latest continues over at the very fine ‘Tidal Station’. In my opinion, the most important bit of deconstruction goes as follows: Perhaps the most egregious…
AllTheHardLandingsThatFit BCFerriesVille So. BC Ferries AND Keith Baldrey are both (surprise!) telling us that we should just make like Bobby McFerrin when we find ourselves worrying our pretty little heads…
AllTheAccessThatFits ReclinerReportageVille I will get to the burnishing of David Hahn’s golden parachute that began in earnest in the pages of VT-C on Boxing Day later. But just to make…
WeDon’tNoStinkin’W’s PostModernPressVille As someone who just paid $127.90 to bring my family of four across the waters from the Lower Mainland to Victoria, I have a question….. Why isn’t the…
AllTheStuntmenThatFit MinsisterialMaterialVille This time last year Mike de Jong was the big winner amongst the BC Liberal also-rans for the leadership of their moribund party. On the YouTubes that is,…
TheAuldTriangles HaveManyJoinedAnglesVille We played on the ferry coming over yesterday afternoon, right after the shift change, outside, on the back deck behind the SeaWest lounge where the exclusives go to…
AllHisRustinessWasOnce OursVille A really big, grand orange Christmas. That is all. And to all a good post-belly-full-of-foul, not to mention less than than two months until pitchers and catchers night.…
. Because it’s really hard to know what’s what in the weird world of Cryptozoology…. .
TheBestEverBesterEverer BestestEverestHappyChristmasBabyVille The kid in the image above, littler e., who is a little older now, kept us on a tight schedule yesterday on Christmas Eve Eve. First, there was…
…Won’t Have The Ghost Of Lord Tubby To Ignore Anymore. Will wonders and/or the War on Crazy Anti-Canadian Ghosts of Christmas Past never cease? ______ Here’s the link to T.…
TheThreeFingeredGrift Self-HoistingPetardVille Don’t know about you, but I’m surprised that there has been so little reaction to Christy Clark’s extensive and pretty wide-ranging year-end/round-up interviews that she held with pretty…
From our good friend Theo. _____ Theo’s fantastically whimsical, not to mention colourful, stuff can be found here. .
AllTheDIYThatFits Rock-AssistedVille John Mackie, in the VSun, has the story of the new-and-improved, supersized version of Susanne Tabata’s documentary of Vancouver’s late 70’s punk scene ‘Bloody But Unbowed’. Read Mackie’s…
…The Damaged Ferry Door Has To Be Manufactured In Germany? Chris Montgomery and reader Alastair Haythornwaite really want to know. Why? Because it would appear that we actually do have…
For all the right reasons, Alain Vigneault is big news in Lotusland these days. After all, his Canuckleheads are on a roll, his Swedes are playing World Cup soccer on…
AllTheSunshineThatFits LotuslandInWinterVille The way things appeared as I looked back over my shoulder on the Pacific Spirit Park trail this morning. No coyotes today, but there have been quite a…
. ….Throws a stiff jab at the Globe and (nolongerEmpire)Mail’s chief gossip columnist: (we still laughin’…) .
NowIsZeeTimeOnSprockets WhenWeMakeZemDanceVille It turns out that, in addition to the dock, the latest BC Ferries crash at Duke point also damaged one of the ship’s doors. And recall, if you…
