What if you had an Oscar Party and nobody showed up?
This old bit done by myself and J.B. Shayne at Coast 1040 Radio (our Hollywood North Report) seems fitting for tonight’s Academy Awards broadcast. Click the audio player below to listen.
This old bit done by myself and J.B. Shayne at Coast 1040 Radio (our Hollywood North Report) seems fitting for tonight’s Academy Awards broadcast. Click the audio player below to listen.
And the Gold Medal goes to……… Duane Story! Congratulations, Duane. You've left us all a little bruised and humbled after WWIV: the Vancouver Blogger War. Silver Medal goes to Boris Mann. Hold your head up high, Boris. You were a fierce warrior. And number three, well that spot goes to the agent provocateur of this […]
Dean Unger of Okanagan Groove Magazine contacted me a few weeks ago about re-printing my old (1990) story about Little Mountain Sound. Dean’s request had me digging through old photo albums and negatives, which makes me even more thankful for digital photography, search and image tagging let me tell you. The above shot was a […]
Less than 24 hours before 15-year-old Deward Ponte was stabbed to death at the edge of Grays Park it was a bitterly cold Saturday morning – about as cold as Vancouver gets in winter. A temperature of minus 2 degrees Celcius and the forecast calling for snow. I stood beside Grays Park Hall on St. […]
After a conflagration of immeasurable proportions, where heaving battalions clashed on the plains, and entire communities were razed in a senseless, some say meaningless, war of pings, back links and blog comments, an eerie calm settles over the land. Families, women and children return from exile, to the smoldering ruins of the Great Vancouver Blogger […]
Evil? Oh, Duane. I represent the forces of good. A sort of White Knight of SEO. Today, at this moment the results show me in the #5 spot. So close, yet so far from my goal. Duane, slipping, has been bumped by a meetup page. Miss604, you're back in the running, placed between Duane and […]
There's lots of hand-wringing lately about clamshell roofs and Arthur Erickson's legacy. Erickson without question has firmly established himself as Vancouver's preeminent architect. I'm not sure if we should love everything he's done, however. Even he must have had a V8-style moment, slapping his forehead and crying, what the hell was I thinking? There's the […]
Ladies and gentlemen, start your googlebots! The Vancouver Blogger Smackdown has begun. Duane Story’s comment is his formal declaration to rumble the RSS Feeds. There are 25 days until the start of Northern Voice. To save face I must get to the top spot for the search phrase Vancouver Blogger. I can only do this […]
"Crap, I lost my wireless connection. Paddle harder!" Jonathon Narvey has thrown down the Google gauntlet. He ranks in the Top Five for the search term "Vancouver Blogger." Okay, Jonny Boy. Game on! Right now my blog has slipped onto the first page of Google results. It feels so close. Duane Story and stories of […]