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It's Thursday April the 30 around 11:24AM and

Finally: Squeeze Bacon

Swine flu or no swine flu, Squeeze bacon is the greatest invention since, er, squeezable cheese. Groundbreaking. [Via ThinkGeek]

It's Thursday April the 30 around 9:21AM and

Porkopolypse: Hiedi and Spencer deep in Swine Flu Territory

We are all doomed. (Via Dlisted)

It's Thursday April the 30 around 8:54AM and

Swine Flu Continues: Porkbreak

What is your favorite funny name for Swine Flu 2009? Porkbreak? This Swine Flu update has been brought to you by Mr. Quentin Tarantino. Meanwhile Joe Biden reassures the nation during this level 5 pandemic on the Today Show.

It's Thursday April the 30 around 8:37AM and

Iggy Fever Hits Vancouver

Are you pumped Vancouver? Liberal convention kicks off at the convention center today - for a good time go check it out. [Via CTV]

It's Thursday April the 30 around 8:27AM and

Hockey Fans + Twitter: Don't Cross the Streams!

Photo Credit: Miss604

Round 2 of the NHL Playoffs start tonight. The above is what happens when two things come together that, unlike chocolate and peanut butter, shouldn't. In the immortal words of Ghostbusters famed Dor peter Venkman, "'Scuse me Egon? You said crossing the streams was bad! " It's jersey wearing sports fans + twitter.

Good clean fun or pure evil? You be the judge.

It's Thursday April the 30 around 8:14AM and

Their Mayor Makes Our Mayor Look like a Nerd

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I can't even bring myself to know what Mayor Gregor Robertson is doing today. Surely it involved some sort of chicken tending or juicing. I can say that it won't be anything near this cool. Like San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom who, with his sights on Governor of California, is ensuring that his Carla Bruni-like wife's racy movie scenes won't be fodder for the campaign. This is politics I can get behind! Take note young Gregor.

Sarkozyisms for the win! [Via Defamer]

It's Thursday April the 30 around 8:02AM and

Gisele Was in Vancouver

I saw this and was too lazy to post something about it. But Graham complained to me that "Gisele was in town and I didn't get a memo". He's right, and I apologize for being so selfish. I just figured that if Perez is posting, do I really need to?

And of course if supermodel and famous baby borrower Gisele Bundchen, seen most recently steaming up Vanity Fair, is going to be here riding the Aqua Bus, rubbing her fabulous life with Tom Brady in the face of his ex, while she has to work, clearly not suffering from swine flu, and scaring the bejesus out of the birds then the answer is yes. [See all the pictures at Bauer Griffin]

It's Thursday April the 30 around 7:56AM and

Vancouver Apartments are Exploding

Photo Credit: CTV/Chopper 9

Let me get this straight: An apartment explodes. 10 units are damaged. 3 people injured. Hazardous Materials unit called to scene. You with me so far? I'm guessing this wasn't jut another case of "whoops I left the stove on" or "I dropped the hair dryer into the tub." I guess what I'm saying is, well, I've seen Breaking Bad okay. This would be some sort of meth lab now would it? I'm just saying. (Via CTV)

It's Wednesday April the 29 around 8:14AM and

Jeffster - "Mr Roboto"

Love that the Season finale of Chuck featured a whole number with Mr. Roboto. Not to mention Chevy Chase. Awesome. You can never go wrong with Styx. EVER. See also their version of Africa. Save Chuck!

It's Wednesday April the 29 around 8:03AM and

Keep Calm. Do Not Sneeze.

HEH. "Spread it like the flu" poster by Work for Food ($14.25). That is all.

It's Wednesday April the 29 around 7:51AM and

I Can Haz Confidence?

Pretty sure this unintentionally ironic General Motors photo sums up in 12 words of less why they should just let GM go under. [Via Voltage]

It's Wednesday April the 29 around 7:44AM and

The New Online Marketing

This tickled me yesterday and so I thought I would share. Seems just about right. [Via Contrast]

It's Wednesday April the 29 around 7:28AM and

A Really Goode Job

Forget the recession. If winemaker Murphy-Goode will pay someone $10,000 a month for 6-months to write on Twitter and Facebook about your adventures while living in Sonoma we are back on easy street and then some. What swine flu?

The job, technically a "wine country lifestyle correspondent" is pure genius. That this is all generating marketing buzz for 60,000 bucks plus some costs like a microsite. Finally a social media campaign I can get behind. Surely there is no social media bubble to burst here. No sir. Not at all. [Via SF Eater]

It's Tuesday April the 28 around 10:59AM and

Today's Must Watch Video

Four words: Chimpanzee Riding A Segway. (via: Frederik Samuel)

It's Tuesday April the 28 around 8:57AM and

Best Japanese Commercial EVER

God I love the Japanese. They are so full of awesome it is sick. How you get from high blood pressure tea to this commercial is, wait for it, legendary.

It's Tuesday April the 28 around 8:17AM and

Convention Center Fail?

Our brand new $900 Million convention center was flooded on two levels due to a broken pipe yesterday. Whoops. (CBC)

It's Tuesday April the 28 around 7:54AM and

Gregor Robertson: Stop Thinking Green, Start Acting Green Deadbeats

Fresh off of securing a chicken for every Vancouver backyard, solving the homeless problem, rescuing the Olympic Village fiasco, and drinking a glass of freshly squeezed juice is set to make Vancouver the greenest city in the world.

"We’re already considered to be in the top 10 globally as a green city but we’ve been sliding in past years,” Robertson said. "Vancouver is ready to embrace this; lots of people think green here, now we just have to act green.” (Vancouver Sun)

Isn't this the kind of stuff that ended poor Stephane Dion's career in politics? This whole idea that we can create a Green Economy is baffling. Even if you are Obama. They make it sound like some sort of Dharma Initiative. It's just the economy, stupid. You have to make things people WANT. Great, they're green. Big deal. it's like social media. It's just like any other media and is not different or new. But you don't base your economy on a one trick pony. Get over it.

One footnote. One recommendation calls for a public bike sharing program. This is a bad idea. They have one in Paris and it's a money sucking eyesore. [The Tyee]

It's Tuesday April the 28 around 7:08AM and

Swine Flu Continues, Wrecking Twitter

According to CNN the combination of swine flu and twitter is ruining everything and proves, of course, that we'll all miss newspapers and such when they are finally gone. (Via Wonkette)

UPDATE: Gawker also is poking fun at this ridiculous news story. To wit: "Here we are two days into the Swine Flu Panic of '09, and dead bodies have yet to be stacked up like cordwood on the streets of American cities. Face it: this story is dumb." Indeed.

It's Monday April the 27 around 3:28PM and

Mentos Ridiculousness

Was just outside taking a break and saw a bunch of white jumpsuited idiots on red balls bouncing down Helmcken in Yaletown starting at Homer. About 5 people were watching. This seems to be a Mentos things. As if Yaletown wasn't already annoying me today enough with all the doucheneck shirts and flip flops on every second guy. Awful.

It's Monday April the 27 around 2:58PM and

1970s Swine Flu PSAs

Ah 1976. It's just like 2009. Panic! No, wait, this means disco can't be too far from returning from the dead - maybe Pontiac too! (via Adfreak)

It's Monday April the 27 around 9:26AM and

Swine Flu Tracker: On

The magic of Google Maps gives us the H!N1 Swine Flu tracker. Now you can follow the pork flu epidemic in real time. Sweet! Or Oink. Whatever. Way to get on the map Surrey. And breaking news at my office. Surprise, surprise one of coworkers is "sick" today after a vacation in Mexico. Can you say quarantine. I can.

It's Monday April the 27 around 9:19AM and

Portable Espresso Awesome

Me want. This portable espresso machine powered by CO2 cartridges is both awesome and evil. Need on on my desk. If only so I don't have to ever go to JJ Bean in Yaletown ever again and be served by a bearded hipster slacker. As Jesus Diaz noted, "It will arrive to this country in the fall for $129, so the survivors from the swine flu can have espresso with their human bacon anywhere and at any time." We can all dream. [Via Gizmodo]

It's Monday April the 27 around 9:06AM and

RIP: Pontiact 1926 - 2010

This recession is turning into good clean fun now. Pontiac is being shut down by GM. About time. And can GM just cut to the chase and shut Buick too (oh no, they're keeping this old man division open)?

They are still on the fence for the fate of Hummer, Saab (Honestly, Saab? Russel Crowe has a sweet old one in State of Play, but these cars are awful to look at) and the Saturn. Have some balls GM and shut these down. (CNN)

It's Monday April the 27 around 8:47AM and

Mondays: That's Incredible

Slowly starting to think about actually blogging again. And watching this blast from the past - the opening of an episode of That's Incredible - makes you know that they just don't make them like this anymore. But they should.

It's Friday April the 24 around 8:22AM and

Finally: Meat Business Cards

Sometimes you never know you needed something until you then see it, and it's like "whoa, I like meat. I need meat cards." Me want. (Via Boing Boing)

It's Friday April the 24 around 8:04AM and

Imagine if Vancouver Cabs We're Half This Fun

As if. This new Heineken spot, about not driving when you go out, is pretty groovy. The part when the cabbie is singing is particularly rad. I've seen maybe one or two Vancouver cabbies that even get off the phone from their telemarketing business or whatever the hell they talk about all day long. But I'm pretty sure none of them would be singing and turning up the tunes. Ever.

It's Friday April the 24 around 7:43AM and

Totally Inspired Bicycles

This short film makes me want to go to Edinburgh, and get a bike. Unreal. (Via Gawker)

It's Thursday April the 9 around 8:51AM and

It doesn’t fit in a Rolodex because it doesn’t BELONG in a Rolodex.

This guy is completely amazing. Via fsamuel.

It's Thursday April the 9 around 7:51AM and

Britney Spears in Vancouver April 8, 2009

Nice to see that Britney Spears rocked out in our city last night. Let me break it down for you as I get some more first hand reports to come in. And news of course is spreading of he 40-minute delay of game for too much marijuana smoke in GM Place. Causing this Spears spokesperson quote: "We want to apologize to all the fans who attended our Vancouver show tonight for the brief pause in Britney’s set. Crew members above the stage became ill due to a ventilation issue.” Let us remind you this was a Britney Spears concert, not a Phish show — did you guys really need a doobie to get through “Toxic”?" indeed.

1. The city was ridiculous last night. The outfits walking past the Gordo fundraiser, don't any of you have fathers to tell you not to dress like tramps?

2. I got one text from our correspondents, Kirsty and Chelsea on scene at the show: "You are missing out. We have never seen anything like this in our lives! The outfits that some of the girls here are wearing are trashy."

3. You mean like the naughty cop outfit Britney wore in the encore? Shock.

4. Question: No, seriously, who smokes pot at a Britney Spears concert? Seems wildly unnecessary even for this city?

5. Can't wait for the Olympics...Stay tuned.

It's Wednesday April the 8 around 11:10PM and

An Evening With Gordon Campbell

(Photo credit: scazon)

So, tonight I met up with some old friends who invited me to a Gordon Campbell fundraiser. Jealous right? He had a captive - and I have to say packed house at Library Square - audience of younger BC Liberal supporters. It was hot. Sweaty, and possibly over capacity. I even managed to have my brush with the premier - not a bad handshake, and came to realization that he really is named Gordon. I have some random thoughts:

1. A youngish - and I mean under 40's - was about 4-1 guys to girls. A total sausage factory.

2. He should fire whoever wrote his speech for the night. Fire them all. He got one applause line during his remarks. He's lucky he's running against Carol James or I'd consider not voting early since I'll be in Italy on election day.

3. I'm pretty sure that just because we are younger, doesn't mean we all need to hear about Obama - and the joke about 'you may have heard about this guy' was awful. PS: talking to us like all we had to do was vote was kind of insulting. PPS: The speech spent more time asking for more ideas or support and nothing about an actual plan - in that regard it was very Obama except less articulate.

4. Second bullet point in the speech was about green. Come on. Then he went on to say how much he believed in the environment. I get it, but you have a rabid group of people who had to pay $20 to help you - I think you can lead with something a little better. Figure out your stump speech dude.

It's Sunday April the 5 around 9:14PM and

What Fresh Hell: This was not the hope we were looking for...

Let me get this straight. North Korea actually managed to launch this missile, and sure it landed in the Pacific. But I mean, I do not feel any comforat with that so called "fizzle" thank you very much. You just know they won't ever hit their American target and it will land in Vancouver. Not good. [AP]

AND Worse news, Fast & Furious 4 is topping box office with a $102 million global take and the biggest opening in April, EVER. [Deadline Hollywood]

It's Thursday April the 2 around 8:26PM and

Tilt Shift: Bathtub IV

Been meaning to post this since Monday, but my machine's at work had triple fails and support was letting me sweat until they fixed. But now I'm at home, watching Tilt Shift in video form wearing new sneakers. Life is good.

It's Thursday April the 2 around 8:15PM and

Sneaker Blogging: Campers

I can't tell you how exciting it is to end the long day with a Zappos box with new smug European sneakers in it. These Camper Pelotas Estrellas were a bargoon and 40% off the other day, but I may have gotten the last pair. This is going to be a good end to a week. I can tell.