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It's Tuesday February the 21 around 8:40PM and

Buzz Dump: Pythons And Rock Stars

Monty Python Personal Best starts this week on PBS as the cast picks the best nudge, nudge, wink, wink, episodes.

The follow up show to Rock Star INXS, Rock Star: The Series, will be holding auditions starting in March - Vancouverites can kick it rock style at the Roxy March 23rd. The only question is, who is the band this time?

Pitchers and Catchers are starting throw the ball around, and Vancouver's own Canadians got themselves a new manager in Rick Magnante. You might know him as the scout who unleashed Jason Giambi onto the league or who found creepy lefthander Barry Zito.

Frito Lay Canada has got a brand new bag. The chip maker is testing out bags of wasabi and curry flavored chips this month in Vancouver.

Just when I think nobody cares about Lululemon in the media, BusinessWeek rolls out a story on the athetic wear company. I'm not sure that the HQ yoga classes are something anybody needs to speak of - it could sound nearly cult-granola-creepy.

Vancouver's Mira Leung is currently 14th after the Ladies' - Short Program in Figure Skating as America's Sasha Cohen narrowly leads Russian favorite Irina Slutskaya.

Emerging Vancouver Canuck star Daniel Sedin got a little punchy - certainly a little too much so for the Swede - when asked about their loss the other niight at the Olympics, which some thought the Swedish team had thrown. DS was very un-Sedin like after the interview, "Sedin then muttered an expletive, and walked away from reporters". [Via Vancouver Canucks Oped]

Andrew Morrison, the always worth reading Waiterblog dude, has the skinny on the West Van eating spot, The Ocean Club ("if it is nicknamed “the O.C.” I’ll opt for a hotdog at the nearby Orange Julius instead") and he teases us with Glowbal's new world domination plans ("checking out a largish space just a hop, skip, and jump from Saltlik")

I'm so glad I don't work at the MetroBlogging Borg collective - this week's surprising no heads up redesign that even surprised their own writers kind of sums up the very worst of a core-periphery argument against a local blog.

Yes. Yes, I do like the new Aston Martin that new punched out James Bond Daniel Craig will be driving when he's not kissing saucy Eva Green and getting his teeth knocked out.

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Comments

Posted by: Anonymous

February 22, 2006 11:25 AM

With all the talk about us... it sounds as if you want to join our "cult"

Posted by: Jackson

February 22, 2006 06:23 PM

Yes. The anonymous cult? Why yes of course I do. I guess I could have the art director spring a redesign on me for no reason whatsoever. No Thanks.

Posted by: Ariadna

February 23, 2006 10:53 AM

It's true that getting no heads-up before a big change isn't cool but that redesign was necessary - they look a million times better.

Posted by: sean bonner

February 25, 2006 07:44 PM

Borg? Doesn't that contradict your following arguement that we're doing stuff without the authors knowing it? But nit picking asside, we've been talking about this redesign internally for the last 6 months, infact we had pretty open plans to launch in January and held back to refine a few things. In fact a good number of authors were actually involved with the design. If the launch surprised some people, it's not because we were keeping some giant secret.

Posted by: Jackson Murphy

February 26, 2006 01:21 PM

A wee bit sensitive to the Borg comment me thinks. But thanks for stopping by to explain the collective.

Posted by: sean bonner

February 26, 2006 05:02 PM

I was never much of a star trek fan. ;)