Besuited girls, performing ‘Edinburgh Festival’ by Victor and Barry

Besuited (kinda) girls, performing ‘Lower Largo Triangle’ by Victor and Barry

Older besuited girls, performing as Victor and Barry - spot the V & B nametags

Older besuited girls, performing as Victor and Barry - very dapper

I've loved @forbesmasson.bsky.social and @alancumming.bsky.social since their Victor and Barry days. So much so, that me and my pal, Rebecca, used to perform their songs at after show parties.

Here's us in 1995 and 1999 (I can't explain the bowler hats, but I do love a good suit)

The High Life: The Musical at HMT in Aberdeen - world time blocks, but all Scottish destinations

The High Life: The Musical at HMT in Aberdeen - the finale

Forbes Masson at the stage door after The High Life: The Musical at HMT in Aberdeen

Alan Cumming at the stage door after The High Life: The Musical at HMT in Aberdeen

Back in Vancouver after a whirlwind weekend in Aberdeen to see The High Life: The Musical, starring @alancumming.bsky.social and @forbesmasson.bsky.social.

All together now! 🎵 Scotia, Air Scotia... 🎵

I've been a huge fan of the boys for a long, long time...

Burnaby Heritage Village is the old timey street in the moving photo. And the big hill that Bill rides his bike down at the end is in New West. In fact, New West is most of 1950s Derry.

When I moved here, I loved spotting IT (and X Files) locations!

When they're doing the promise to come back - beside the stand pipe.

With printed media, you can just store it in a warehouse. When some company says "we never said that," you can go to the archives, fetch a newspaper, and that ends the argument. When the companies on their websites change stories, there is no archive outside the Internet Archive.

Hahaha, @littlefreecinema.bsky.social is playing Heritage Minutes!!

Another concrete #Caturday poem, this one by J.R.R. Tolkien.
#NationalPoetryMonth #Poetry

“Cat”

This was written about a different discipline but the lesson is the same - it's the prefect explanation of why we should NEVER use LLMs in family history research.

"Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the place where the problem lives..."

Get your hands dirty!

It used to have a 1986 centennial plaque, so delighted that it's getting a Places That Matter one!

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[The extra "u" was what the Centennial Commission wrote]

me: time to get stuff done

🧠: ok but what if we just got mad at ourselves instead

Vancouver Centennial Plaque #68 – CPR Tunnel In 1932, to relieve traffic disruption in the city core, the C.P.R. built a tunnel to connect its False Creek yards with its Burrard Inlet terminal and wharves. Part of it is now used by the SkyTrain.

And probably the only mall with a 1986 centennial plaque attached!

(There were other plaques planned for a different downtown mall, but they refused to install them)

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Vancouver's 100 Centennial Plaques - Google My Maps Finding the 100 plaques installed to celebrate the city of Vancouver’s centennial in 1986. Email hello@randomlygenerated.ca if you find one! This project is looking at sites located within the unceded...

And there’s even a Google Map, so you can visit the plaques yourself!

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Pie chart titled “plaque status”, showing how many of the Vancouver centennial plaques have been found

Bar chart titled “decades”, showing what years the Vancouver centennial plaques covered

Inspired by @jmcelroy.bsky.social, I made some charts analyzing the plaques - their locations, topics, time focus…

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20 yellow oval heritage plaques, in various states of disrepair

Another 20 yellow oval heritage plaques, in various states of disrepair

In 1986, 100 plaques were installed to celebrate Vancouver’s centennial.

Trawling through the archives, searching old newspapers, time travelling on StreetView, driving all over the city… I’ve found 40 of them.

Just in time for their 40th anniversary!

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Christopher Penn wrote: Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

A different perspective.
Always helpful.

Notice of filming in Vancouver for April 8-10 for Home Run Productions

Filming next week around 1040 West Pender in Vancouver

Tweet from Sean Leahy @thepunningman "The bond's Name. James Name" Pleased to... what? "Bond Name's the james" Are you alright? "Bames Nond's having a strong, call a Bondulance"

This one still fuckin kills me

Heritage Minutes: Jackie Shane Enjoy these Heritage Minutes brought to you by Historica Canada! While free to view and share, these productions remain under copyright. Re-uploads or modified versions are strictly prohibited…

Today is the International Transgender Day of Visibility! Watch our Heritage Minute about legendary trans soul singer Jackie Shane.

I felt like that at the Mary Queen of Scots House in Jedburgh. One room in particular was horrible

Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!

Filming notice for the Marine Building in Vancouver on April 1 for Reunion Snap Productions

Filming at the Marine Building in Vancouver on April 1

Filming locations in Port Coquitlam One of the things I love about living in the greater Vancouver area is all the filming that takes place here. And Port Coquitlam is no exception! This page shows some of the filming locations in our lovely city.

But that’s not the only filming Port Coquitlam has seen! Yellowjackets was the most recent, but I’ve found productions all the way back to 1976, including the X-Files (of course) and tons of Supernatural.

If you want to visit, I’ve made a Google Map - randomlygenerated.ca/blogs/port-c...

Map of Port Coquitlam by Netflix, based around Virgin River season 7

Delighted to see PoCoHeritage included in the Netflix In Your Neighbourhood map for Port Coquitlam! Virgin River used In A Wink Salon as a filming location, so Netflix Canada built a little itinerary around visiting it.

@pocoheritage.bsky.social @cityofpoco.bsky.social @netflixca.bsky.social

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

I made a new friend - literally! After four fantastic classes at the Flying Fox Prop Shop, I’ve got my very own baby dragon puppet. I’ve learned so much too and am already brainstorming the next one!

www.flyingfoxpropshop.com

Cartoon illustration of two white women kissing wearing hats and jackets with the text above 'Girls are doing all the fellow's jobs now'

An anti-suffragette postcard from the early 1900s
'First she gets the vote, then she gets your wife!'
#WomensHistoryMonth

Now go get some Irn Bru!

Filming is scheduled to take place on Oxford Street this evening. 🎬 A full road closure will be in place on Oxford Street (from Mason Avenue to Cemetery) from 5pm to midnight. Filming will take place on the street only.

We appreciate your patience.

Yellow Car Yellow cars are funny, right?

Inspired by @gralefrit.bsky.social's collection of the yellow cars of comedy.

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Aber-bloody-deen? References to Aberdeen in British TV comedies (mostly) Another niche tangent! In British comedy series, all crappy, far away towns are Aberdeen and I'm collecting all the references I can find.

This is something I've wanted to pull together for a while.

In British comedies, all crappy, far away towns are Aberdeen.

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