We all know women are all about the chocolate and men are all about the sex, but now we have the science to prove it. Apparently the masterminds at Aero have commissioned a poll that will prove, once and for all, just how great the divide between the sexes really is.

The "Guys Just Don't Get It Survey" asked Canadians about a range of preferences and traits - shoes, multi-tasking, shopping, packing and more - but the the point that sticks (and the point that the PR people at the chocolate company are clearly trying to get across) is that "women love chocolate, men prefer sex". According to the survey, 46% - almost half the women polled - said that there were times they could just not live without chocolate.

I first met Al Di through Myspace, as was the cool thing to do a year ago. I'd left a comment on a friend's photo that he was in - something about karaoke- and Al began messaging me, obsessively. He pleaded with me to come to karaoke. I eventually did. That's when I began to understand the magic that is Al Di.

Born in China, 25 year old, Al Di moved to Vancouver a few years ago and began a career as a music journalist with China's Rolling Stone. Since then he has charmed musicians like Sam Roberts, Papa Roach, and Rob Zombie with his passionate, hysterical and enthusiastic interviewing in broken English. See, Al Di, LOVES music more than you can imagine. Al Di cares deeply about musicians and wants to understand how it is that they create such beauty. The result is the cutest and most random interviewing you've ever seen.

Al Di began filming his interviews for a program he calls "Al 'D' TV." Recently Al 'D' TV interviewedFall Out Boy and it made quite the buzz on YouTube.

The following is a Q and A with Al Di. He wanted me to clean up his English but I've kept most of it as it poured from his heart, because that's what makes Al Di, Al Di.

Announcing "Queeruption 10: Vancouver, Canada!", August 1-7 2007. Let's talk about controversy! People getting down and dirty about controversy is my idea of a fun couple days. Almost like a philosopher's Cafe only better! Cuz, come on, what's hotter than a good convo anyways? A bunch of workshops are held around varying venues in Vancouver, which are usually announced just a few days in advance, but the bulk of the gigz taking place at Sunshine Coast (get directions). Why should Vancouverites know about this then? Well, I tell ya, perhaps because most people going to this thing are from urban centres like Vancouver, and prolly because most people there are Vancouverites, or at least are expected to be!

So, you ask: What is Queer? Well, in short, it means different, not only sexually, but also socially. The word queer, according to wikipedia, has traditionally meant "strange" or "unusual," but now is also often used in reference to gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and asexual people. Its usage is controversial and underwent substantial changes over the course of the 20th century. In my opinion, what better reason to get together than controversial things like this. This is a wonderful place and time for hyphenated individuals to get together and network.

I first met Kris Krug when we both worked at a little web design start up where I was the sys admin and he was the marketing guy. Or something like that. These days it's still as hard to pin a label on Kris, but instead of my bad memory, it's because he's got his so many things going on. You could start with blogger, photographer, entrepreneur, author, networker, community agitator, man-about-town and you'd still only be halfway done. In a Vancouver game of 6 degrees of separation, it wouldn't take you long to run into Kris or something he's been involved in. So I sat down with him under the watchful eye of Gassy Jack and got caught up on online communities, fashion photography and what he thinks of our favorite city.

Here's one of those Harlequin romances that happened in Vancouver: there was a girl who was pretty shy, but one day she came upon a stranger sweeping broken glass in front of his house. They talked, and each discovered the other already had a partner. But their conversation was so fantastic, they thought about each other afterwards. While talking they had exchanged business cards. After a few friendly emails, they stopped communicating due to busy schedules and relationships. After a year of not speaking, the girl, now single, contacted him. Turns out, he had become single as well. They have now been dating for almost two years.

That girl is me. If this doesn't inspire you to start talking to strangers, how about this: Vancouver now has a simple tool to instigate speaking with your neighbour. The OK Button, created by Steve, is an easy way to show people that you are friendly, and they are welcome to talk to you. Simple, hey? Apparently, Vancouver needs this sort of tool.

Remember that inept, marble-mouthed puppeteer that used to hang out on the corner of Robson and Thurlow? He once asked me what I did for a living and to my reply he mumbled "hrmbl...bartenders...are the philosophers of the world", which I thought was both awesome and slightly comical. So I figured I'd test his theory with a new interview series, and shine the 15 minute Spotlight of Fame on some of Vancouver's glasswipe illuminati.

We begin with Chris Brown, a veteran barman who runs the wood at Beyond in the Century Plaza Hotel. He gets to lead off this series because he has just claimed victory for Canada at the venerated Giffard International Cocktail Challenge at the Hotel des Penitentes in Angers, France, the first Canadian ever to do so. An intense and improvisational Iron Chef-style competition, Giffard scopes regional competitions all over the world and invites the best of the best to compete. The ten elite contestants from Belgium, Germany, England, France, and Canada were judged on presentation, flavour, and overall efficiency. Chris took top honours with his "Kiwi on the Green" cocktail, which he told me how to make, but under the strict bartender code of omerta, which I just invented, I am unable to reveal the recipe. You'll have to go down and get the man himself to make you one.

Read the interview after the jump...