Maybe I’m just a giant newspaper nerd, but I can’t help but think that the new distribution boxes that have been put out around some of Vancouver’s busiest streets are a great

One food vendor (the funnel cake people) was selling deep-fried Oreos this year. I could not resist.

Alas, it’s two great tastes that are wasted together. The dough was quite puffy; I think a

It’s a great loophole - if you spray your ad on a wall or sidewalk in paint, you’re defacing property. You’re graffiti! If you spray your ad on a wall or sidewalk in solvent,

It’s not something many of us have experienced - picking fruit straight from the source and digging in. I remember blueberries and strawberries, fresh from the plant. Oh sure, I had to pick a

First, let me preface this story by saying that the Vancouver Sports Junkies is still open. But unlike the now-closed Port Moody store, I can’t easily walk there.

For my part, I remember that

(ooops, this was in my drafts, not posted last night.)

I could not get into this hallway. It is a back entrance to the former Storyeum site - exit to Cordova St.

Thus ends this week’s

The best thing about rain in late July in Vancouver is that downtown and Gastown don’t smell like pee.

The weather has cooled off in the past couple of nights, so I pulled out my favourite p.js.

I went to the fireworks on Saturday, which are a bit of a pain - I’m not big on sitting on the ground, as it usually results in injury causing numbness. But I went for two reasons - to see

This leaf is from a tree right outside my front door.

All the leaves, the pollen droppings and much of the pavement around the tree is covered in this shiny, sticky substance that clings to

If you aren’t doing anything tonight, there’s a “Celebration” of the Cuban Revolution at Trout Lake, meeting up at the beach concession stand.

So here is a photo taken in my neighbourhood.

This is what I had for breakfast. Thus ends this week’s theme post.

Catch us for week 3: July 27 – Aug 2, when the theme will be Hallways.

To the young woman who couldn’t understand why her friend from UBC got on the Skytrain with her “photo student card” but she wasn’t allowed to get on the Skytrain with her

I live here.

Don’t throw your garbage in my doorway.

That can be recycled.

Many years ago, shortly after I moved to Vancouver to pursue a career in video games, a pal of mine moved here to join a young ad company. Sick of working for one of the international advertising big

They also have salsa and meat per kilogram for to go.

The food was delish… but it would’ve been nice to have more $1 tastes and less $4 meals.

I found your pants.

Photo by Buzz Bishop

Update: I, er, should have at least noted Jeffery’s July 14 post describing these melons in their natural environment.

My fairly good friend and local media personality

Anybody know what’s up with this? It’s in different odd places around my neighbourhood, and it’s been there since I moved onto the street in 2004.

Gastown was a zoo at the end of my work day, so I decided that today was theme post day.

Heavenly Shoes, the bringer of your life is John Fluevog. I love many of your delights, and the next time I

After my complainy comment in Jeffery’s earlier post that nobody had news on what’s happening downtown, details are starting to come together. But first, some downtown geography secrets -

My husband rawks my casbah, and he knows me really, really well. So he got me a great present for my birthday that suited me just fine.

We were part of the Vancouver Police Museum’s

While the selection of Summer movies is starting to pick up, the weather is promising to be most excellent - so, given the choice between air conditioned cold in the dark for $12 and cool sunset for