Grey Cup Night Night-Kapp…The Face Mask Factor
TheyAreAllSidewindersNow GogolakVille In the end the game did have a little of the ol’ CFL razzle-dazzle. And all those wild-eyed backfields in motion kept on keepin’ on until the last,…
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Grey Cup Day Update…Whadd’ya Mean We Didn’t Miss…
…Nickelback?! After the sudden early Sunday change in the Lotuslandian weather officially ended the ‘Roof-Leak-Watch’, the Whack-A-Doodle and I figured we would skip the first half and, most importantly, the…
Grey Cup Day Update…The Roof No Longer Matters!
NextTimeSlotsInTheSeatBacks! UpperDeckVille Organizers of the 99th Grey Cup (no French, please) are breathing a sigh of relief with just four more hours to go before game time. Why? Because the…
Grey Cup Day Update…The Sky Is No Longer Falling!
RaindropsKeepFallingOffTheirHead Lotusland At least that is the latest according to the man on the ground from PavCo: …Preparation for the Grey Cup hit a snag late Saturday when crews discovered…
When They’re Sixty-Four…
AllYouNeedIsLove CongratulationsVille Just heard from one of our favourite readers and commenters, D. He has just given his partner E. one of the most fantastical musical storyboards ever. For her…
Grey Cup Eve Update…The Sky Is Falling! (Part Deux)
AllTheCodswallopThatFits ShillVille The roof on the marshmallow is leaking again, the night before the big game. And now one of the original media shills for the thing, a shill who…
Grey Cup Eve Update…The Sky Is Falling!
AllTheDevil’sHornsThatFit MarshmallowVille Well, actually, it’s just the roof: The general manager of BC Place Stadium said it’s actually a good thing that the new retractable roof is leaking on the…
Plan? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Plan!
AllTheShameThatFits Lotusland After all, if you are the newly-minted (not)Premier of a government that has given the province of British Columbia the worst child poverty rates in Canada for eight…
The Lie My Butt Cheeks Tell Me.
SomethingsReallyMatter LedgeClosedAgainVille You may recall that a couple of weeks ago I had to go to the heart of Burnaby’s own Bladerunner set (a.k.a. ‘Metrotown’) to renew my new Driver’s…
Lotusland’s Former Mayors Come Up With The Best Anti-Gang Initiative Yet
EliminateTheProfitMargin StopTheViolenceVille Now that Mike Harcourt, Philip Owen, Larry Campbell and Sam Sullivan have all called for an end to the prohibition on marijuana, can the fanciful Vince Fosterish fantasies…
Whose Base Is This Anyway?
AllTheReasonablenessThatFit OccupationVille One question that was rarely asked during the recent Lotuslandian civic election campaign is… How would Gregor Robertson’s base have responded if he had used an iron fist…
When An NPA Candidate Lies Down With Swine…
…They Love The Smell Of The Poo. As long as they think they might win. **** And if they don’t? Win, I mean. Well…. You get stuff like this from…
The Power And All The Glory Of The Kids At UC Davis
NonViolence ReallyMattersVille When I saw the footage of the campus police macing the faces of non-violent kids sitting in a row on the Quad at UC Davis the other day…
Big Changes In Van City…
Our Top Five… 1) West End Bob elects Adriane Carr in the 135th poll (of 135). 2) COPE may be dead. 2a) Ghost of Harry Rankin planning David Cadman resurrection…
Fear And Loathing In….Davis?
AllTheAuthoritySongsThatFit UCCampusVille Yesterday, we linked to the inspirational hijinks by the kids at UC Berkeley who responded with levity, quite literally, after they got a dose of authority thrown in…
Civic Election Update
ThisIsNotYourKnowWardHeeler’s NoFunCityVille I have very little to say, except that turnout really, really matters. So go vote. Otherwise, you just may be turning the fate of Lotuslandia over to FABula’s…
Occupy Berkeley…No Tents, No Problem
AllTheSmartAssesThatFit TheKidsAreAllRightVille The University administration told the kids at Berkeley that they couldn’t pitch their tents on Sproul Plaza. So they didn’t. Instead, they floated them above the plaza. Gosh,…
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RailGate Relapsing…A Cancer On The Entire Government?
TheDeanWritesHarder AllTheIndemnitiesThatFitVille Now here’s something interesting…. It turns out that David Basi and Robert Virk were not the only ones who had indemnification deals in place. Vaughn Palmer had the…
The Tebow Conundrum….What Would Freddy Do?
AllTheShoeGooThatFits OaklandAlamedaCountyColiseumLives!Ville If Fred Biletnikoff were forced to catch fluttering ducks from Timmeh, I reckon he would do it by slathering the goo on thick. Over his entire body. OK?…