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Tea & Two Slices: On Bad Heroin And Richmond’s Golden Barf Bag

by Sean Orr | More tall buildings touted for Vancouver skyline. I love the nowhere to go but up mantra, except that here it means creating investments rather than spaces for people to live in.

Bad heroin hits Vancouver streets. Wait…does that mean that the heroin before was good?

Dementia tsunami set to strike baby boomers. Hello Cleveland! We’re Dementia Tsunami! We’ve got T-shirts in the van!

Downtown Eastside activists protest over-height condo plans. OK, so maybe gentrification is happening. Shit.

Tax cheats on WikiLeaks’ hitlist. It’s kind of unfortunate that we need Wikileaks to catch these guys, and it makes one wonder if they’re even trying. I do, however, like the idea of rich people “quaking in their boots”.

Golden Globe stars love fancy Richmond vomit bags. Are we that starved for attention that we need to mention every single connection to Hollywood? Perhaps this was just a clever way to make me puke…

There are 16 comments

  1. golden golem that you edeavour to one day ascend to be aside, leave poor richmond mothers bee, honey. Had Tommy Noble or Johnny Hammersticks every hummmed a chorus of the musical diahrea that is Twassels your facade would crack pipe like a DtES whore

  2. “Golem of the DTEs ”
    plain speak as the great polish investigator Banacek so clealy stated “a sore thumb in hand is better that one in the bum” bad heroin that is just another markting scheme like $1.49 day HASTINGS!
    why the hate, RIch Folk got just as much right to be asswipes as the east golem

  3. DTes activists protest over height counters at money mart that make signing govenment handout czechs feel like they did some work.

    “On Monday a coalition of community groups met at the corner of Carrall and Hasting streets ( also know as unrine corner) in solidarity against the plan which they say would destroy the community and cause an increase in homelessness.” and possibly generate jobs, security and interfer with our plans to ensure the ghettoization of the area now known as the DMZ
    (de – monied -zone)

  4. just a typical broad stroke attack on the working class, not everyone who protests gentrification is a welfare bum junkie living on handouts and refusing to work, some of us have permanent disabilities, addictions, childhood trauma’s and other issues that make seeking and keeping work an obstacle, I hate walking around my hood and seeing all these yuppies and urbane hipster 20somethings taking over thinking they can call this town their own. Take your iphones, 500$ tattoos and facial hair back to your suburban homes and leave the neighborhood to the lumpenproletariat.

  5. Good call, Terry, because no one was living here before you. You are the Alpha and the Omega.

  6. in the werds of the butterfly, you need not give to receive, just take take take. Terry the DTes is like a party for your face and everyone gets to take a shot or deposit one on it.

  7. On a lighter note….Here is an interesting article by the world sweatiest philosopher regarding our saviours – Wikileaks. Some salient points in all that gesticulating.

  8. Johnny Hammersticks, Tommy Noble….
    He totally bossanova’d you Sean. Somebody thinks you dont like the seahorses?

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