So I get this email the other day entitled, "video on upcoming Vancouver election". I was like cool, this will be awesome. The email went on, "I wanted to pass along a short news segment that may interest your readers. The piece is titled "Why the November elections are critical for Vancouver's future" and it outlines a few of the main issues, including transportation and homelessness."
It's really too bad the video was called "Vision of Hope" and was more Michael Moore-ian in its one sided anti-NPA message (including terrible "We don't want no NPA sequel chant" from some lyrical hipsters) and pro-Vision party stance. So, thanks for the campaign ad pal. Bonus points for the one interview suggesting something about change, Obama style. I can safely predict that homelessness won't be solved by either of the two candidates come November. You heard it here first.
Apparently Ryan Reynolds married Scarlett Johansson this weekend. I only found out when an Entertainment Tonight Canada producer emailed me this morning with the news and basically begging for help. "By now I'm sure you've heard this news. Please let us know if you hear where this took place or any other details. We'll credit you."
Apparently the wedding took place in a secret "remote wilderness resort" location just outside Vancouver. Count me, Woody Allen, and Kanye West among those dissapointed with Johansson's decision to marry Reynolds. She's like Kim Il Jung to me now.
Gazillionaire Seth McFarland has unleashed his funny on the internets, with his Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy! and its sponsored by Burger King. You'd think with all his money and The King's help his website could work faster. Do you really need the curtains? Yeesh. Good thing he has the content on youtube as well.
Man I want a Coke so badly. Not because of the ad per se. Just because it is Day 8 of 12 of this damned cleanse. It's really a shame about the Bond movie title being so lame.
The above request probably won't happen, but in the words of Wooderson, " It'd be a lot cooler if [it] did." "by a Starbucks coffee to the first person who finds me Lorne Mayencourt sign installed with some sort of Jesus statue.
In other news, and more fun presumably, Mayencourt's campaign office is on the corner of Nelson and Granville St. I can only imagine how fun that place is going to be at like 2:30 AM Fridays and Saturdays the next few weeks.
So its day three of the Canadian election. And its really nice to see that the candidates are trying to really capture the best of what the web medium has to offer. They offer tonnes of web 2.0 tools on their sites and a plethora of tactics sure to make anyone rethink the power of web 2.0. At this rate I'll skip the 3.0 and just wait for the 5.0.
1. Conservative Microsite: Notaleader.ca features the hilirious "Do you think it's easy to load websites." This features both the facebook-lite Dionbook (currently down) and a blog for his dog Kyoto.
2. Liberal microsite for Mr. Dion: Thisisdion.ca. Love the "Meet Dion" moniker and the montage of him fishing and playing hockey. He's just like us! (PS: love the contrast between Green Shift and Liberal Red. It's like Christmas!)
3. Self Indulgent videos referencing both website name and purpose. Justin Trudeau's Justin.ca is reason enough to stop letting candidates use the web. On the other hand, its worthy of a 'Smug' award. I'm torn. And of course the interwebs strike back with hilarious results.
7. Wait. NDP Twitter? You've got to be kidding me. Are you on the edge of your seat yet: "What a great event!! So many people, all excited about the hope and optimism our campaign is spreading… about 5 hours ago from web."
8. A Harper Twitter. But no Dion Twitter. What the? Burn!
"The Russian Prime Minister – shown in new macho-style pictures apparently tranquilising a tiger – said that any attempts at severing relations would be hampered by the self-interest of European nations." [Times Online]
