Robin Hood of Espresso

So I’m in the Starbucks queue this morning and it seemed just like every other day until this guy walks in. He was wearing a very nice suit, had great hair and he strolled up to the shelves where they sell stuff and he picks up an espresso machine and bolts out the door! Sirens are blaring outside from fire trucks and there are people everywhere and he is flat-out running down Burrard Street with a frickin’ espresso machine in his arms with the chord flying behind him. Most customers stood there stunned, I of course was laughing and 2 of the staff attempted to run after the guy. They of course didn’t catch him because everyone walking down Burrard St. at 8am is wearing a nice suit but really, how many of them were carrying espresso machines? Personally, I would have gone for the funky Italian orange machine or even the hella kewl Saeco myself but he chose the cheap-o Krups espresso machine *shakes head*

I don't want no scrubs

Now, I have spent more than my fair share of time in the hospital in the last few years for various surgeries, consultations, etc. and I had it in my head that hospitals are a sterile place so that people do not get any sicker than they already are. Then why is it that as I walk to work every day, the nurses and doctors from St. Paul's hospital are wandering the streets and frequenting Starbucks wearing their scrubs with their stethoscopes still hanging around their necks? Perhaps this is part of the reason why we keep hearing stories about infections spreading in the hospitals...it is because of the cooties the staff are bringing in because they're too lazy to change into street clothes when stepping out for some java or a smoke!

Blog Thief

I obviously have readers in Kits now..Don't rip off my posts ya bastard!

http://www.arbutuswalktalk.com/ titled "Umbrella Etiquette Refresher" Saturday March 24, 2007.

Does it perhaps remind you a bit of my umbrella etiquette rant posted on November 10, 2006? Hmmm at least give me some credit! Oh, and the West End is where it's at, Kits is not half as kewl :P

Stop raining already

20 straight days of rain make JJ go crazy..Seriously, I cannot take this rain any longer and if I could afford to, I would fly to Antigua or Mexico for some much needed sunshine and vitamin D. I keep hearing "well, we do live in a rain forest afterall...". No we don't, we live in a goddamn city!

They say that we are only a few cm's short of breaking the rain record for the Couv...Last time you people taunted me with that wonderful statistic and I actually almost encouraged the rain, we fell short by 6 cm's...I was crushed. Oh, and Mark Madryga from Global news, you're such a liar..When you said that it would be 'light showers' for the last week you should have said 'torrential downpour' instead. Are you really a meteorologist or do you just play one on tv? Pleeeeease make the rain stop.

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I thought this was kinda fun, saw it on C.Y's blog.

Slutty Mommy Day

Thank Christ I got the hell out of Victoria before this sad day. It has been proclaimed Nelly Furtado Day in good ole’ Victoria today! Dear god…all I can really do is shake my head in disgust and be thankful she is not from Vancouver. Otherwise it would be her slutty mommy music on the radio ALL day long. Raw sewage, Nelly Furtado and Steve Nash…at least Steve Nash is kinda kewl.

Venice is Sinking

We went to the Spirit of the West show at the Commodore on Friday night to get into the Paddy’s Day spirit. The concert was fantastic, they played all of my songs and they came back for 2 encores. What is with people in this city though? It was not an all ages show, you had to be 19 (an adult!) to go to this show but of course, so many acted like complete idiots. Like, who crowd surfs at a frickin’ Spirit of the West concert?? We lost count at 27…There was this huge retaining wall and as soon as the surfers made it to there, they were literally smacked down by security guards and led outside. It got to the point that we were handing them to security as we were tired of being kicked in the head. Grow the hell up people. You wonder why city council cancels fun events every year, it’s because of idiots like you. If you can’t hold your liquor, stay home and don’t ruin the fun for the rest of us with your adolescent antics.

Colourful...and Lazy

Hang on, I am trying to work on my surprised face here. Can you believe it? Vandals have spray painted Vancouver’s beloved Olympic Countdown Clock *surprised face* Someone painted “Free Betty” in black paint all over it during the daytime yesterday. The message likely refers to the recent 10-month jail sentence handed down to Betty Krawczyk. She is the crazy hippie 78-year-old activist who went to jail over her objection to road construction at Eagleridge Bluffs in West Van (making the Sea to Sky highway less likely to kill foreign tourists during the Olympics).

Why keep this clock at ground level in front of the friggin' art gallery? I mean, we the people are paying 350K for 24 hour security and obviously, it ain’t working! We should put it on top of a building, float it on a barge out in the bay or better yet, remember that bus stop 2 years ago with that unbreakable glass? We should encase it in that! As Bruce Allen from CKNW said “If you can’t trust the populace to look after something, put it where they can’t get it. Isn’t that what our mothers did with the homemade chocolate chip cookies?”.

These anti-poverty, homes for all people should really stop protesting on a daily basis and take a peek at the jobs section in the Vancouver Sun…there are plenty of jobs out there and maybe they would have time to apply for them if they weren’t protesting 24/7.

Dog ate my fortune

So, I was at my mum and dad’s over the weekend and on the last night we ordered in some Chinese take away. I had just finished eating my fortune cookie and had put the fortune down on the coffee table to show my dad when all of a sudden Tasha (their Rottweiler) swooped down and ate my damn fortune! So does that mean that it won’t come true?

Balcony rapist should fall off the balcony

I have been following the Paul Callow story closely over the last week. Callow, known as the Balcony Rapist, has served his full sentence of 20 years in prison for a series of brutal, knifepoint sexual assaults on women in Toronto in the mid-1980s. Seeing as he was a native of BC, he was released in Greater Vancouver last week. He has already had to move 4 or 5 times as communities said “no way in hell can he live near us” and launched huge public protests. I am in full agreement that I would not want him living anywhere near me either. The kicker is this though, the parole board and every shrink who has ever talked to Callow says he is at a high risk of reoffending, he has not atoned for his crimes and he shows little to no remorse for what he did. How could they let this animal back into public when they all but said he will do it again?? Paul Bernardo will never see the light of day ever again and I think people like Callow should be in the same boat. I wonder if the parole officer who ultimately let him out would be willing to let Paul Callow rent out his basement suite with his own wife, mother and daughters in his home, hmmm.