Posted in British Columbia, Things I liked/hated in 2008, Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, tagged B.C Supreme Court, Best and Worst of 2008, sports, Things I liked/hated in 2008, U.S. Women's Ski Jump, Vancouver, Vancouver 2010 Olympics, Women's ski jumping on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Originally published on Dec 29, 2008 @ 21:10. Reposted in light of the recent court decision.
Women’s ski jump isn’t an Olympic sport, so forget about cheering the gals on in 2010.
But wait! I (and every other Canadian taxpayer) helped pay for the damn ski jump venue at Whistler. Who says they can’t jump? The International [...]
Posted in British Columbia, News, politics and current events, Northern British Columbia, Things I liked/hated in 2008, tagged Bears, Best and Worst of 2008, Kitimat, Subway, Things I liked in 2008, Videos, WTF on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A lone Subway employee in Kitimat, B.C., got the surprise of her life this summer, when dark and early one morning a black bear with the munchies wandered into the deserted sandwich joint hoping to find a snack.
The persistent bear managed to open the restaurant door and walk inside.
The employee, working all alone in the [...]
Posted in Exiled in Suburbia, Movies, music and pop culture, News, politics and current events, Things I liked/hated in 2008, tagged Best and Worst of 2008, Conservative Party of Canada, Handcuff fetish, party leaders, Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, Things I liked/hated in 2008, This Hour has 22 Minutes, Top 10 of 2008 on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Does Stephen Harper even have a sense of humour? Consider this awkward moment from September 2008, when comedienne Geri Hall of CBC’s long-running fake news show This Hour Has 22 Minutes caught the PM and his staff off-guard at a press conference in Halifax.
Hall, standing in a sizable crowd of reporters, tried to ask Harper [...]
Posted in Exiled in Suburbia, News, politics and current events, Things I liked/hated in 2008, tagged 2008 election, Alaska, Best and Worst of 2008, Politics, Sarah Palin, Things I liked/hated in 2008, Top 10 of 2008 on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John McCain’s Hail Mary Pass running mate announcement – coming practically on top of the triumphant Democratic party convention’s endorsement of Barack Obama and his VP choice Joe Biden – was one of the swiftest and most divisive political buzz kills of the summer.
I’m not sure what was more disturbing about Republican vice president hopeful [...]
Posted in Exiled in Suburbia, Things I liked/hated in 2008, tagged Best and Worst of 2008, Things I liked/hated in 2008, Top 10 of 2008, Trailer Park Boys, TV on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yep, it’s all over for dope-smoking recidivists Ricky, Julian, Bubbles and the rest of the gang at the embattled Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Nova Scotia.
Director/creator Mike Clattenburg has supposedly promised another feature-length movie, but the TV series is finished. The last episode, Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys, an hour-long special involving a country and [...]
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