Posts Tagged ‘vancouver’
Is it bad to walk on an escalator?
In which Hedley resists the efficiency imperative of Uytae Lee’s CBC critique of escalator-walking.
Read MoreOn Ducks and Dumplings
Recent dining adventures in Portland, OR and Vancouver, BC
Read MoreIn Which I Say Positive Things About Calgary
Yes, there are some obvious drawbacks to Calgary, and I’ll probably complain about all of them at one time or another. But one doesn’t have to dig too deeply to come up with things to like, either. Here are my top ten, so far.
Read MoreA bright light in Strathcona
I was very happy this weekend to discover The Strathcona Art Gallery and Library.
Read MoreWhen hibernation begins to end
Though I witness it yearly, and have done so for the better part of a half-century, the pace of the transition of the seasons, winter to spring and fall to winter, always surprises me anew.
Read MoreFood for thought, not comfort
The idea of Burgoo is appealing to me because, generally speaking, stew is a highly desirable comfort food that in normal circumstances would make me feel better. I’d forgotten, though, that Burgoo’s stews seem decidedly unspectacular and disappointing, at least in relation to my stew expectations.
Read MoreSnow Trauma in Vancouver
It’s snowing in Vancouver today, and if you’ve even been here you know what that means: innumerable diatribes about how Vancouverites don’t know how to drive in snow. It’s an absurdly tiresome bit of small talk that is simultaneously both accurate and bullshit.
Read MoreBackyard Chronicles: Fowl Thoughts
From the plastic Adirondack chair in my backyard, the one in which I have been sitting and contemplating the world for several years, the one that has a cracked seat that (I have discovered through painful experience) one should never recline upon while wearing a skirt sans culottes, I now have a new sight upon…
Read MoreVancouver election 2011: A confused voter reports
Only two days remain until Vancouver’s triennial civic elections. If you’re reading this from somewhere outside of Vancouver, no need to go on – I recommend you read the label of a ketchup bottle instead – unless you care to learn more about the political underbelly of this town. After all, if even Vancouverites haven’t…
Read MoreWoodward’s: then and now
It’s impossible to experience my immediate physical location in precisely the same way in which I experienced it as a barely pubescent youth so many years ago. Nevertheless, as I sit at an upper-level table in the W2 Media Café I sense many ghosts unrelated to the Halloween enthusiasts who occasionally wander through in costume.…
Read MoreDick Cheney, and the ideological divide
Last night I went to the Vancouver Club to demonstrate my opposition to the presence of former United States Vice president Dick Cheney. Cheney, who has recently published a memoir titled In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, was invited by the “Bon Mot Book Club” to address the club’s members. I don’t go…
Read MoreDestination: Richmond
The latest instalment in my effort to visit Vancouver’s neighbourhoods as a tourist.
Read MoreVancouver. Special?
Hedley undertakes to see his hometown through the eyes of an unjaded tourist.
Read MoreOn Liberty, and Memory
The olympics may be a very desirable event to many, but if we can’t hold an olympics, or any other event, without depriving citizens of their rights to free speech and free assembly, we have no business holding it at all.
Read MoreNot quite Walden Pond
Ever since I was quite young, I have both enjoyed and suffered the incongruity of wanting to be out of the city while wanting to be in it.
Read MoreNot quite a car-free city
Last weekend in Vancouver, two events took place that sought to advance the idea of the car-free city. One I attended, the other I tried to avoid, with limited success.
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