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On Doge Quotes And Brothels Destined For Kits Beach Bike Path

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by Sean Orr | Goodbye 2013, The Year We Broke The Internet.

This is not a glitch in the system. It is the system. Readers are gullible, the media is feckless, garbage is circulated around, and everyone goes to bed happy and fed… We the media have betrayed your trust, and the general public has taken our self-sanctioned lowering of standards as tacit permission to lower their own.

Or, never heard of media concentration? Guess why? Media concentration. To wit: Conan Shows Us That Main Stream Media Is Scripted. It’s OK, you can admit it.

Because it’s just that black and white: Is the Downtown Eastside getting better/worse? Maybe the question should be, “Are all the underlying factors that created the DTES still at play?” Because yes they are.

Although…Supreme Court strikes down Canada’s anti-prostitution laws. The NIMBYs are going to lose their shit when a brothel opens off Kits Beach.

Related: Exploration of Indigenous Lands and Exploitation of Indigenous Bodies.

The Best Most Expensive Place on Earth: MSP premiums and other taxes heading up in 2013. And BC Hydro. And BC Ferries. And house prices. Woah! Or is it, Whoa?

Top Canadian CEOs earn average worker’s annual salary by lunchtime today. Or, in my case, 5 minutes after midnight.

Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like Today — in 2014. “Mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity. This will have serious mental, emotional and sociological consequences, and I dare say that psychiatry will be far and away the most important medical specialty in 2014.”

Something Offal: 2013: The Scam Reviewed. “Given the distended fecal sacks of our holy bovines, retching is not uncommon”. I feel your pain, bro.

So it turns out that doge – aka the Meme of the Year and The Person of the Year – didn’t give one of the best quotes out of Vancouver this year: I get a life no trouble. All the people no fight, all the friendship, how good, how excellent. Sounds like doge but isn’t doge? Much truth. Very real. So honest.

‘Homeless’ man pays next month’s rent for strangers. I am going to try and help every homeless man I see from now on, but I’m also going to get really mad when they don’t whip out their chequebooks.

Author 1, phisher 0: Vancouver novelist Steven Galloway claims ultimate troll on Facebook scammer. This could also be a tweet from Modern Seinfeld.

Bonus: Vancouver Releases of 2013.

On Ken Sim’s So-Called “Swagger” and ABC’S Class War

Sean Orr is back from his hiatus with a rundown of the local headlines that have been running on a ticker tape through his mind over the past six months...

On Post-Election Recuperation, Platform Paradoxes and Refund Communities

In his latest read of the local news headlines, Sean Orr finds irony in "safety, affordability, and sustainability", and shouts out a bunch of amazing local organizations working on the frontlines.

On Running for City Council, Playing Whack-a-Mole with Homelessness, and the Public Washroom Deficit

In his latest read of the local news headlines, Sean Orr finds a park ranger with a grudge, a gross misuse of air quotes and Tripadvisor slander.

On Living in a City Preoccupied with Street Cleaning, Chandeliers, and Campaigns Against the Homeless

In his latest read of the local news headlines, Sean Orr hones in on the recent Langley shootings, and the ongoing criminalizing and dehumanizing of the homeless population.