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It's Thursday February the 2 around 6:06PM and

Buzz Dump: Doing Nothing Is Sport

*Out of the blue I bought some Adidas shoes online this week - the Adidas store just isn't cutting it anymore - the Folsom ST espre. I bought them solely for the awesome description online:

If hanging out with nothing to do were a sport, this would be the shoe of choice for elite-level pros with multi-million-dollar contracts. In other words, this shoe is specifically designed for doing absolutely nothing, but being comfortable.

They are kind of the perfect shoe for blogging - since we don't get out of our Pajamas or leave our apartments anyways. Anyways, February 15th at the Edgewater Casino, TBWA/Chait/Day Creative Director Chuck McBride from Adidas will give brand nerds a rare look into, "the strategy, creative and launch of the new
'adidas_1' shoe" New Adidas shoe whoo hoo. [Newswire]

*Quite possibly the most entertaining spoof movie trailer ever. Brokeback...to the future.

*Hey Vancouverites, can you hardly contain yourself waiting for the big Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee announcement tommorow? They are going to tell us how much extra cash this whole thing is going to cost. Any guesses? [Canadian Press]

*Due to the new city council's failure to accomplish anything but fight, a World Peace Conference set for Vancouver, was cancelled. Vancouver Council 1, Peace 0. [CKNW]

*Later to peaces conferences. At least February has the Vancouver Burlesque Festival February 9-11. Enter a contest to go at The Georgia Straight.

*Attention geeks. The Stargate Vancouver Convention is set to rock you. Monday, March 27th at the scenic Hilton Vancouver Metrotown. Just to be a mean jerk, how awesome will this part be: "Saturday 9pm DESSERT PARTY & DANCE" Suh-weet. The Beau Bridges appearence, a crazy bonus. Really, Beau Bridges. Totally huge star power.

*Kitchen fire this afternoon at the sassy La Gavroche.

*April 28th. Mark it on the calendars if you like Death Cab for Cutie. That's when they hit Vancouver. Too bad that unlike every other Canadian city - Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Calgary - gets Death Cab plus Franz Ferdinand. What gives? [Billboard]

*A very cool story that I saw, but didn't read, until I saw the new Silicon Valley gossip blog from Gawker, Valleywag. It starts with Vancouver community site publisher Bryght and gets into the story of Assemblenow.com - a startup that assembles you furniture - IKEA stuff too.