Post Tagged with: "“growing up”"

Lynn Canyon & the 90-foot pool

June 28, 2006 2:23 pm /Vancouver /Comments Off
Yet another story about a kid being pulled out of the icy waters of Lynn Canyon. Luckily, this one was alive when they rescued him. As someone who made regular visits to North Vancouver's Lynn ...

Professional baseball players = roid monkeys

July 10, 2005 7:41 am /Soapbox /Comments Off
I don't watch big league baseball. I know it's a game with its charms, its history and its heroes. A recent incident caught on video of Texas Ranger's Kenny Rogers assaulting a videographer, a man ...

Mainstream Hip

September 21, 1995 3:44 am /Pop, Soapbox /Comments Off
You, Mr. & Ms. Moshpitter, have become the new norm Today, life unquestionably imitates art. Or more accurately, it imitates advertising and music television. To walk city streets, is to feel like you've missed out ...

Pre-teen, Prime Time Dreaming

November 24, 1994 3:55 pm /Pop, Soapbox /1 Comment
On a childhood longing to be Danny Partridge The Brady Bunch revivalism of Hollywood and Broadway has opened up an old debate between a friend and I. Which early 70's prime time TV family was ...