Existential Superpowers. » 2010

It’s been that kind of day.

Christopher — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:09:21 +0000

I truly hope it doesn’t, but it’s bound to happen- someone who’s dropped acid in the past will come across one of these people on the street and have a huge flashback and jump off a bridge.

There are bizarre buskers, “posers” and other performers out here, some are truly amazing and talented. That being said, there are… ahem… others.

The Olympic Monkey and Paralympic Fish

Hockey night in Canada – for Switzerland & USA, anyway.

Christopher — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:47:01 +0000

We saw the quarter-final game for men’s hockey today, and damn, I’m still not sure how it went! Last night, Canada murdered won over Germany like, 8-2. Today, it was 2-0 and the first two periods were boooooring.

Finally, there were a couple of dribbled-in goals and everyone went home. The Swiss played like they needed to go to hockey-camp this summer, and the Americans were not the same team that wiped the ice with us on Sunday, that’s for sure.

Right there? Jeff & $20 worth of Olympic food.

A Good Idea At The Time:

Christopher — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:28:57 +0000

Buskers are lining the sides (and sometimes the middle) of Granville Street between West Georgia and Smith because the streets there have been restricted to foot traffic only, and right now they have a giant, continuous audience to fleece. Some of the more enterprising buskers have very little to do with Olympic themes – for instance, there’s a guy dressed as Batman who will pose with you for pictures or just spread his cape (dirty!) for a quarter, and I understand the Caped Crusader is a bit of a jerk if you don’t make with the spare change fast enough. Not very 2010 of him. Tsk.

There’s other, more topical buskers, like the guys in the photo below – though I don’t know if they qualify as buskers because they don’t have any talent save for the ability to wear spandex so tight you can tell their religion. The little boy in the picture doesn’t seem too keen on the idea, either. “Guys, you couldn’t have worn underwear? Really?”

Olympic Vandalism & Endless Human Stupidity

Christopher — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:01:45 +0000

I would very much like to find the cowardly jackass(es) who thought this was a good idea. The Bay at Granville & West Georgia that contains the HBC Olympic store was vandalized this morning when red paint was thrown on the building and some of the giant display windows were smashed in.

This isn't protesting the Olympics so much as stupid shit-disturbing.

The opening ceremonies last night were phenomenally well done and frankly seemed to be the best ones ever produced, which makes this all the more infuriating. There are some valid points that Olympic protesters are putting forth – when they’re genuine Olympic protesters. Many of them – distinguishable by the black hoodies and masks they wear to hide their identities – are just anarchists, enjoying the attention of the global media and participating in the destruction of public and private property.

Jeff was watching the news this morning and there were shots of cars being vandalised on Robson, newspaper boxes thrown around – this is not the work of sincere social protest. Some random people seemed to get in on the action because it was an opportunity to get away with vandalism – At one point Jeff saw some young mom pushing her child in a stroller, who stopped to kick over a newspaper box.

Seriously, what the hell?

The windows were repaired in a few hours and the police are investigating.

If anything, this kind of crap hurts the causes of the earnest political protesters, and I’m sure they’re frustrated as hell that this is the message that gets attention, and detracts from their credibility. I know it’s unlikely, but I sincerely hope that the idiots responsible get caught trying to pull something else and have the book thrown at them.