Last night I took it easy and watched Canada win a gold medal in Skeleton on TV. Today I’ve taken it easy, done a few domestic chores, but decided that wasn’t what I wanted to do on such a lovely day. Apparently I’m going to New Westminster to watch men fight in a [...]
Today is the day, Welfare Wednesday, it is estimated that several hundred thousands of dollars are spent on illegal drugs on this one day in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. I’ve been working down here for a while now so I’ve seen them come and go, but today there are even more drug dealers out than [...]
This was on the front page of both free Vancouver dailies this morning. I don’t read either, but I see them at bus stops and on the bus. Here are the actual articles: Metro and 24.
I’ve written about how the UFC would mean money for Vancouver’s ailing tourism industry. Heck I [...]
A number of articles/stories have piled up which I could blog about… I don’t know if I have an audience, but my posts do appear on my Facebook Page now that I got Networked Blogs installed. I’ve fooled around with GeekBlips too, but that hasn’t caught on as much. There are more [...]
That was the old tagline for Wendy’s but it could have equally been used for this weekends Bob Sapp VS Bobby Lashley mixed martial arts match. It was in one of the new smaller promotions but it got more than the usual amount of press. It isn’t often that you have two large [...]
After finishing the previous post I stayed up too late surfing the Internet. Then I couldn’t sleep so I ended up reading a chapter or two from my Martial Arts of Asia book I bought a while back. This along with general laziness and malaise resulted in being a little late from work. [...]
In a recent article UFC fighter Karo Parisyan revealed he had recently begun experiencing panic attacks and that it affected his training, performance in the cage, his very career. Apparently he is starting to overcome them or at least cope better. Karo doesn’t know when exactly his panic attacks started occurring or what [...]