Vancouver mayor apologizes for F-bomb. Oh my god, it’s time Vancouver grew the fuck up and dropped the pseudo-puritan facade that manifests itself as phony outrage.

A post-hippy Mom at McLean Park demanded we show a permit to play soccer last Sunday (after we’d been doing it for 7 years without incident), which made me think of Patton Oswalt: “You can’t rent (mopeds) in San Francisco anymore without a motorcycle license. You know why? Because hippies took them off the market because people were getting hurt– waaah! Actually not hippies, the asshole children of hippies”.

The champion of that archaic thinking, Jon Ferry, wants more signs on our roads. Hey, let’s hire Homer Simpson as our Public Safety Minister. That would be fun. And while editorial space is dedicated to how Jon Ferry’s idiot friends can’t find Deep Cove, they give the budget a free ride.

Journalists should always talk truth to power. Are you just reminding yourself? Or did you forget that you write for The Province?

Thanks to NEWS1130, we now can confirm that 17% of us have tattoos.

Hey! Here is a map of the new food carts and what they will serve. Check it out…I have absolutely no opinion on the food carts! Do you like me yet?

BP is drilling in the Rockies. It gets pretty silly at the end but…

Olympic protesters complaint to cops dismissed. Yeah, I mean they’re only civil rights, right? Besides, a cop dressing up as a chartered bus driver is just plain fun, as long as you just don’t think about what might have happened had he crashed.

Kensington Skate Park officially opens Saturday, July 17.

What the massengils over at VancityBuzz think indie nightlife is. Indie nightlife, as the cliché would dictate, is an obscure noise band from Brooklyn playing at a place like Babar or The Secret Space, which of course you can’t even find because nowhere is the address posted. You just have to know.

Hey! My band Tassels is on this rad playlist that Babe Rainbow made of all local musicians for Vancouver is Awesome (via CBC Radio3).