Lousy Sports Press

As usual they used their lousy, overhyped reporting skills to repeatedly say an 'undecided' Mats Sundin would either sign with either the Canucks or the Rangers. In the few days before he made his decision, TSN, Sportsnet and the rest of those hacks all hinted that he would most likely choose the Rangers. Sure enough, 'Skeletor' chose Vancouver, causing even a larger media circus that came before it.

As a Canucks fan, alls I gotta say is that although it is way too early to make any assumptions of whether or not he'll be a good addition to the team, I'll be happy as long as this:

Doesn't turn into this:

The Pomegranate Popularity Perplexity

Select any juice, yogurt, tea, bubble gum and hell, even estrogen tablet products and you'll find pomegranate flavoring in it. How has this fruit become so popular all of a sudden? I don't remember ever hearing of the fruit up until a few months ago, so Im always confused  every time I see it. I mean really, it looks as weird as it sounds:

Yikes. It looks like salmon eggs fashioned on a star fish. 

However, the last thing I want to do is alienate and publicly malign this innocent fruit, so I thought I would take the time now to offer 5 interesting facts on pomegranate. Huzzah! (sponsored by Wikipedia)

1. Each pomegranate contains 840 seeds (or arils), accompanied with a tangy, sweet juice.

2. A good source of antioxidants

3. Featured in Botticelli's 'Madonna of the Pomegranate', where the Virgin Mary herself is clutching both the fruit and her lil' baby Jesus.

4. It holds strong symbolic meanings to Greeks. It is often given as house warming present, placed under the home alter to provide luck, fertility and abundance. 

5. Is the official logo of many Turkish cities. 

So there you have it. A fruit good enough for the Virgin Mary herself!. While I can't speak for the fruit as I have never tried it, the pomegranate berry Extra brand gum is fantastic. Simply delicious. 

The Price is EXACTLY RIGHT

Either this guy is the inventor of world's first time machine, or he's in cahoots with CBS.

Let the debate commence!

Good to be home

Due to a strike at my University out east, I have had the pleasure to come home to Vancouver 2 weeks early for the holidays. While being re-aquatinted with my "bro-skies" and the city that I love, I just so happened to pass the corner of Davie and Burrard St. where the former Shell gas station has been transformed into a community garden. 

Now of course, all biases aside, I think its a fantastic move by the developers and the community to do what they have done. No where else in this country would you see a plot of land at a busy downtown intersection, which in reality probably made condo developers drool, turned into a garden for city slickers to plant their pre grown flowers from Home Depot. But for God's sake, don't plant any food. All environmental cliches aside, its a unique thing. Its something that will hopefully keep Vancouver on top of their game. 

side note: I can't help to think that it was done make up for the 70 trees that the city hacked to preserve the view from QE park over the summer that pissed off all the local tree huggers (myself included). That being said, I accept the community garden as a token of your apology, but I'm still pissed about the Gateway project (That rant will be saved for another day).

Just 'cause I love them, another PSA

Thanks to the brilliant and stoned Hanna-Barbara animators, we have this gem of a PSA ad.

If a walking blunt and pills with arms and legs lead you to a party in some wardrobe,

you know its gotta be good.

And now a word from the Japanese MAFF...

Moving on to international news, who ever said the Japanese doesn't care about food security or global warming? The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries certainly do! 

Whether you care about these issues or not, this 4 min PSA beats the hell out of any of Al Gore's power point presentation on climate change. I'm super-duper cereal, guys.

Plus its Japanese - how could you not enjoy it?

note: keep on the lookout for the cows who are dancing ever so subtlety.