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It's Sunday February the 19 around 1:53PM and

Vancouver Weekend Round Up

I can't even imagine how The Vancouver Sun continues to pay for Lynne McNamara's senseless ramblings on the Vancouver film scene. Yesterday's inane column featured a 487-word french kiss to Timothy Hutton who is here to shoot the new Sharon Stone film "When a Man Falls in the Forest." How is this the big news? Timothy Hutton? Honestly. I want to know more about two things in her column and they aren't about Timoth Hutton.

1 I want to know more about the film "Sisters" starring Asia Argento and Chloe Sevigny set to film begining in March. Actually I just want to know more about Asia Argento when she gets here - she is a flat out euro-babe and we want to know more about her.
2. Why can't we get more gossip and news about Vancouver singer Michael Buble and his romance with Emily Blunt. "Emily and I have been together living in Vancouver for a few months. We are taking it slowly but we are excited about the future," said Buble on eTalk Daily this week. Can the Sun not get a paparazzi thing going on and get every last detail of when the two are canoodling here in town?

If I were the Sun, I would put Lynne out to pasture and hire Lainey to do a local gossip column.

Vancouver's Telus Corp. had a pretty craptastic 4th quarter as profits dropped 42% (22 cents per share vs. 38 cents per share a year agao). Of course service at Telus actually improved during the 4-month labour dispute that has caused the profit crunch. In the interest of Telus-ness they decided to outsourse 700 jobs. Take that union. Take that Telus stock. [Canadian Press]

Cartoon War protests come to Vancouver. Yesterday hundreds protestors joined others around the globe protesting the ongoing saga of the Danish cartoons that have ignited quite the debate on freedom of the press vs. respect for Islam. The story also featured a little spat between Western Standard (which published the cartoons) Editor Ezra Levant and Vancouver rocker Matthew Good. Levants called it the "C-List rocker takes on the D-List publisher" (and that's funny, because doesn't a c-list plus a d-list at least equal a b-lister?). It's worth the read and Levant comes out ahead, "I'm delighted to hear his attacks were merely personal, and not aimed at our freedom of the press. He meant "moronic" in a good way!"[The Province]

Meanwhile the National Post spends way too much of time writing about the 2010 Olympic Games without managing to say anything of interest whatsoever. Sigh. Blah, blah, blah this will be just as good as Expo 86. Blah, blah, blah, lots of money. Blah, blah, blah housing pricess will go up. [National Post]

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