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It's Friday September the 1 around 3:39AM and

Vancouver Papers: Long Weekend News

The 24 Hours crack editorial team pulls out the old "Last drops of Summer" routine. While you can't really fault them for the old girl licking ice cream (gelato) on the cover, the recomends of gelato, drinking at George, hiking, a bbq, road trips and fish and chips must have taken them weeks to compile. Meanwhile they do have some fun with "Remakes we want to see". It's still pretty desperate long weekend stuff to be honest. Flava Flav in a remake of Red Sonja? Come on.

The Sun goes big headline today. And yells, "Fugitive Found n B.C. Cold Case". Also of not is this headline, "Drought-hit Tofino stays afloat after agreeing to truck in water." Again, I think they think Tofino is going to spontaneously combust. Also, Tofino agreed to truck in the water? No need for a town fool with this bunch of idiots. Thank the maker. Fred Latremouille and Cathy Baldazzi are back on the airwaves Sept 5 after a six year break. Wow 104.9 Clear FM is trying to re-launch adult contemporary. God help us all. That giant sucking sound you hear, is Vancouver Radio's collective suckage machine working overtime.

The Province, those clever bastards, is the only paper that gives cover awesome happy times to Mina Bahmanyar the 59-year-old who pepper-sprayed the hell out of a knife wielding killer and rapist Danny Perrault. And special awesome shout out to the cover photo of Mina where she weeps with a cover of The Province in the foreground. Genuis. Dana Gee has a very readable minute by minute recap of the MTV Awards if anyone cares. I liked this part especially: "11:07 p.m.: Wow, we go from the Jackass guys sacking members of Fall Out Boy as they tried to accept their fan choice award to Al Gore. Gore took the opportunity to tell the MTV nation about global warming and what they can do about it, and then he sacked Justin Timberlake. Just kidding about the last part." And this CP article about Harper equiping border guards with more guns. Whoever chose the photo with the sexy looking border guard is a genuis. Border Guards = Sexy Back.

For the second day in a row, Metro's cover is just so awesome it's going to get it's own post - stay tuned shortly.

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Posted by: Mark Woodall

September 5, 2006 08:56 PM

I now have a radio station that I can turn off for good. Fred and Cathy were finished 6 years ago and should never be brought back. They were rightfully dropped before and should be now. I will not listen to Clear FM again. Mark