You know when some random piece of news just hits you in the face, wherein otherwise you'd sort of laugh at the absurdity of our obsession with the ultra-specific, but this time you pause, think about how a fucking Sea Lion's death can be making tears well up in your eyes. It could also have something to do with the fact that I've been uploading my entire Compact Disc collection into my new computer, making a massive playlist, and right now I'm on a stretch that includes Gram Parsons, Mazzy Star, Red House Painters, Great Lake Swimmers, Low, and Pedro the Lion. Emo is back motherfuckers.

The Mohawk: two-storey box with 'hair' on top. City hall spawned weird new housing form. Just a sort of nice, gentle, extra fuck you to all the homeless natives in the DTES.

THE DISH: RESTAURANT REVIEW: THE REVEL ROOM.
"Stop at this funky boîte for a late-night nosh". Yeah you totally should, if of course, you are someone who calls restaurants funky, uses the word boîte, and goes for late-night noshes. In other words, if you are a piece of shit.

A Canada Day resolution: Don't let the politicians do your thinking for you. Same thing applies to jocks-cum-journalists.

Farmers seek permission to shoot marmots. Besides that being totally fun, maybe we can also find some way to make oil out of them, and then maybe all our energy problems will be solved.

Geoff Plant leads CEOs on tour of DTES. I hope they all got hepatitis.

Speaking of walking tours! Vancouver Architectural Tours. Summer 2008 - July 2 to August 31

photo by Joshua Stevenson