photo: Salty Soul

by Sean Orr | Michael Byers, noted political analyst, echoes my sentiments on the G20 Summit by asking, not rhetorically, if this is what Harper really wanted. You can’t say that both sides failed. That’s a cop out (pardon the pun). We saw agent provocateurs in Montreal. We saw them get special powers. And they still failed. Or did they?

I’m more afraid of what would happen if people weren’t allowed to shop. Now that would be anarchy.

Meanwhile some protesters smashed a window in my alley, broke bottles, and hurled their urine at the walls last night. I’m not sure what they were protesting, but I think it might have been the fact that they were 18 and from Coquitlam

Meanwhile, TSX suffers 100-point drop as energy prices fade. Quick, someone spill some more oil in the ocean so we can sell our sand that has oil in it.

Hey, but nevermind all that! Let’s all remember the Olympics! Go Canada, right? I mean who could forget? There was that dude who chugged beer after he won, the women’s hockey team chugging beer on the ice, curling…

In and Of: Memoirs of a mystic journey by Jack Haas. Another sordid history of Old Town.

Hyperlocal: Woodwards Mile. Or is it Woodward Smile? It’s rad, it’s like a play-by-play broadcast of gentrification, and I mean that in a good way.