Dear BC Place, could I pay $20 to come in on a non-World Cup game day just to know what the real grass smells like from the first row of supporters section? $50 if we can step on it barefoot. vancouversun.com/news/bc-plac...
We’re looking for billionaires that want to be soccer team owners. Ingratiate yourself to the locals forever.
According to this article, the roof at BC Place will be closed for all matches during the tournament as a part of the quality control for the pitch.
The Oilers won their first playoff game tonight. Twitter is showing me a woman on woman fight where one woman seems to be knocked out accidentally by a cop (head hit the ground) trying to break it up, a six on one fight, and someone on the LRT had an ear bitten off. Welcome to Oil Country 🫡
Beach rave, east end of New Brighton Park, East Vancouver. Misc humans in front of a standard tent.
When you see an event listing for a “beach rave” in East Van and you know technically there’s only one beach in East Van so it’s an easy night walk.
It looks like there's a pretty decent correlation between satisfaction and tax rate?! Higher provincial taxes means higher satisfaction?
I’m night shift now so I was sleeping from like 9am-3pm 😅
I like Bluesky, I do, and I check it regularly, but still I only found out about the outage on Twitter. 😅
I thought that was beautiful and more sports fans should take consider that. You can take a break. There's many other sports to watch now more than ever. There’s always next season. Except now, for the Whitecaps.
Early in the Whitecaps season I chatted with someone who I hadn’t seen at games for a while. He took a break from being an STH through the worse years feeling burned out. Said he can now enjoy it better taking it less seriously. (Obvs also helps we’re now having the dream seasons).
Last Canucks Gameday $4 Big Mac of the season and with that I salute the only connection I have to the team. 🫡 Did I throw on games when they were on CBC or Prime? Yeah but I’d be lying if I said I actually watched. Having it on so my partner didn’t realize I was listening to degenerate YouTubers.
Shadow analysis slide
The documents for this floating hotel that's going to council public hearing tonight has... shadow analysis over the water.
The sauce has a way of being offputting at first but you warm up to it and then 15 years without having tried it you still think about it sometimes.
Map sat view of South Edmonton Common
There's a Swiss Chalet in some of the worst car centric commercial design in all of Canada: South Edmonton Common
This Ken Sim MLB proposal pisses me off so much when I spent Saturday in Whitecaps supporters section trying not to tear up (and failing) at the prospect that we’re probably going to lose something I’ve found joy in for a decade. You’re fuckin gone Kenny. Entrepreneur bros fuck off from politics.
Previewing a Zizek audiobook and being disappointed he isn’t the narrator.
A thing to know about Hardwick's two failed startups is that she pivoted from working in film and knowing how to get govt funding for film, to trying to do web apps and knowing how to get govt funding for tech startups. But she's universally bad at running anything.
Two failed startups, two failed elections, no one can tell this girlboss to stop burning other peoples' money on her delusional pursuits.
Got close enough to see that the roof is open today, which I didn’t expect because it’s 13c overcast with chance of rain, and already getting too “deep in the feels”. There’s def a chance of rain 😭
Every Whitecaps game I’m going to this year, I’m steadily working through the emotional processing that we’re probably going to lose the team. This makes every game special but also means that by August I’ll probably be getting teary over a fuckin’ Houston Dynamo match. #vwfc
Treating Costco like an extraction shooter. No cart for quickest in/out.
Someone in the Orion capsule just got to take the furthest ever piss from Earth and blast it into space. 🫡
Secondary item of Canadian pride and Western Canadian pride, the woman working Capcom while the astronauts do flyby of the moon is backup astronaut Jenni Gibbons of Calgary. Hope you get your own flight someday Jenni, maybe ISS before it’s decommissioned.
Breka Hastings-Sunrise has a night security guy on weekends now. It’s bumpin at this time on a Saturday.
I say this every year about some album or another: I’m not ready for Crystal Castles - Amnesty (I) to be ten years old this year.
Street corner including the Steam Clock on Water St in Gastown, Vancouver. It’s the offseason but there’s still ample tourists taking pictures of the anachronistic monument. The clock time is hours off but we just accept this is normal now. The time doesn’t really matter for IG pics. Time is a flat circle. But it’s a pleasant overcast spring day so vibes are strong. Lee’s Donuts is behind the steamclock and I regret not getting donuts at the time.
Shamelessly giving FIFA and the PNE org money for Fan Fest amphitheatre arch tickets so I can vaguely enjoy something this summer. Metric!
I respect A&W Canada so much for not being concerned about economic downturns and committing to quality. No coupons in the app for 2+ months and their marketing is all: “The Teen Burger, you know it’s good, come get it at regular price which is $9 now” & “the Mozza Burger exists too”.
The Steamclock is Good Actually because cities are a series of lies we tell ourselves that hang in balance.