Now, we’ve warned you about the Downtown Eastside. We’ve told you the life expectancy is thirty-some-odd years less than the rest of Canada. We’ve told you that the streets down here are tough and the street dwellers tougher.

Well, they have to be to put up with me!

But there’s something we haven’t told you.

We haven’t told you…

about the Ravens.

But the shameful secret can be kept no longer, for January, 2010 has seen the release of “The Raven,” a short film by the same man who became the toast of MTV for his masterpiece “Spiders on Drugs.”

If you can’t beat ’em, you can at least get pageviews for posting the video, eh?