Category: Vancouver
So, I was planning to run the Vancouver BMO half marathon in May. But I’ve made the executive decision that I’m so not going to be ready to run a respectable half by May 1st, what with the lack of training due to subzero temps and torrential rainstorms. Instead, I’ve convinced my friend Kim that […]
As you know, I like me some hockey players. Especially if they are hotties. And especially especially if they play for the Vancouver Canucks. Which is why I am so stunned to have discovered that there is a hottie Canuck that has slipped beneath my radar! As long time readers may recall, I have a […]
In what I consider a hilarious juxtaposition with yesterday’s blog posting, I have to tell you about the prize that I’ve won. I’m a big fan of entering contests. Thanks to weekly contests at Videomatica and the Georgia Straight, I’ve probably seen more movies via free passes to sneak previews than I have actually paid […]
I’m not actually writing this blog posting right now. In fact, as this post, which I’ve written in advance and scheduled to post at exactly 10 a.m., is being published, I’m hiding under my desk and holding on for dear life! Because it’s time for the The Great British Columbia Shake Out – the biggest earthquake drill […]
So this is what Zaphod Beeblebrox the Car looks like under a foot of snow: After crying “SNOWMAGGEDON!” several times this month, the meteorologists were finally right and we got a big dump of snow on the night of my birthday. Thankfully it waited until after I got home from the Indian buffet I went to with […]
In the mountain of email that was waiting for me upon my return to work after three weeks of holidays, there was an email about the The Great British Columbia Shake Out. What is a “Shake Out,” you ask? Only the biggest earthquake drill in the history of Canada! BC is a hot spot for […]
So one of the things on my 101 things to do in 1001 days list was to do the Polar Bear Swim. For the uninitiated, The Polar Bear Swim is where you go for a chilly swim in the ocean (or a lake or some other outdoor body of water) on New Year’s Day ((I […]
Lance, Kim & Beth at the Lions game. Image by Beth77 via Flickr Crossed another item off my 101 things to do in 1001 days list: #45: Go to a BC Lions game! Now, I’m not a huge football fan. When I was a kid, my dad and I were in an NFL football pool […]
Tonight on the Knowledge Network: 12 Takes, a half dozen BC filmmakers’ takes on a dozen BC artists, from Jenn Strom’s whimsical, animated exploration of the works of Nick Bantock, to Kevin Eastwood’s lively overview of the pop art of Douglas Coupland, to John Bolton’s visually uncompromising study of the design and architecture of Omer […]
… expect blogging around here to be light this week. For some reason, I thought it was a good idea to take on a contract for the writing of a grant application, along with my real job and teaching. (Will I ever learn? Answer: probably not). Hopefully I have enough funny things in my Flickr […]