I wasn’t going to blog today, but Canada’s Men’s Hockey Team finally is playing so my attempt to take a break from going out lasted one night…

I’m at home watching the Olympics on CTV so I might as well write a blog post. Canada and Japan are racing in long track speed skating, the 500m so the shortest distance. Canada must do well in this as I don’t think it is live…

Yes, stuff is happening in Vancouver besides the Olympics and protests. I’ve been working with the Chinatown BIA for almost two years now and BOB moved their offices to Main and Pender so this year we asked and were allowed to march in the parade…

The Opening Ceremonies had not even began when the naysayers had something else to crow about. I said all yesterday I hope they don’t. Complaints about traffic, costs, weather, snow, sponsorship, begin to look more trivial compared to someone’s life. Maybe people will realize how good life really is in Vancouver and that people are trying to make it better, constructively or maybe they’ll keep chanting “K-K-Kanada, Shame on you for living in K-K-Kanada”…

All the naysayers seem to neglect to mention the huge injection into the Vancouver art scene the Olympics is. BOB has the Trimpin installation in their offices, the Artwalk starts this weekend, I’ve already seen the Blue Dragon, I’m seeing the Neil Young Project at the Queen E, and I’ve mentioned the free Wilco concert before, but my coworker Will just sent me this list of free shows in Vancouver all starting this Friday…