Category Archives: Vancouver

The Pogrom

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Oops, I mean The Program. Sure I do.

Individuality

I'm trying to think of a rabid, slavering undead and undying accursed keeper of a name for this new blog topic: the course that The Ministry has shotgunned me into out of incompetence, perversity, or a straightforward appreciation for the incomparably beautiful spectacle of pure human suffering.

Operation Orwell Lives

Operation STFU

Operation Shock the MonkeyBeaker

I tell ya, I never felt so much like Beaker in my whole life. It definitely get the Politics tag, and so far I've restrained the impulse to use the Censorship tag, but only barely. Weird is a comer, keep your eye peeled for that, as is Crime; one more bizarre outburst from the math teacher and I may have to break out the Squid as well. Since he never sits down, it'll have to be thrown, but I think I can manage it. I used to be pretty good at baseball.

For now, since I'm supposed to be sending out the press release I drafted in class while the rest of the people were learning how to turn the Caps Lock key on and doing a grant proposal for forty thousand dollars for Pivot, we'll just have to ask you to post your suggestions for a name in the Comments. C'mon people: raincoaster here has had a collective ten, count 'em, ten hours of sleep in the last three nights, and can't think straight. Check over the above posts and see if you can tell where we're going with this mood…

Watch this space

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okay, not this specific one. This general, bloggy corner of cyberspace. Operation Orwell Lives is underway and as soon as I've caught up on the twelve hours of sleep I've lost in the past three days over it I'll get right to blogging it.

One way or another, this article is going to come in handy.

Clary, is that you?

Clary, is that you?

Warm up the Shift-TopRowKeys. This is going to be…vivid.

Three little words: STREAMING EAGLE CAM

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Eagle Snatch sounds dirty eh?

Update: the camera has moved here.

Nesting bald eagle streaming webcam, brought to you live by the guy in whose yard they’ve been hanging out for 14 years. And yes, there’s eggs people, there’s eggs! The feed is not without flaws, but then, it’s hanging out in the bedroom of two of the most impressive predators the world has ever seen.

Background on the Eagle Cam

Last week, the website went online as the eagles laid two eggs that are expected to hatch by the end of the month.

Retired accountant David Carrick said he has been keeping an eye on the pair of eagles in his secluded property for 14 years. But about 18 months ago – with government permission – he got an even closer look, installing a camera in the nest while the eagles were away on their annual migration.

He said the eagles noticed the enclosed camera and “pecked at it” and then got on with their lives.

Now up to two million hits a day and growing. I’m sooooooooo jealous!

Eaglewhatchoolookinat?I am reminded, as I so often am, of a story that makes Americans look bad. Yeah, I’m a bitch: I’m fine with it. My friend Christi and I were returning to Vancouver from Victoria via the Swartz Bay ferry. It had been a beautiful day: warm, clear, and windy the way it gets on Vancouver Island, with the air pummelling you as if you were just a stray plastic bag in its hands. The kind of day that makes you think, if you had just exactly the right jacket, you could become a kite, or at least an oversized flying squirrel. Okay, maybe not you. But I could, I’m real small.

So it was that kind of day. And we’d seen the typical Active Passian and Gulf Islandian and Beacon Hill Parkian and Lower Mainlandian wildlife that day, which is to say more than just a handful of raptors. So we, being no fools, scrambled onto the ferry and went straight for the windowseats; it always takes the tourists ages to figure out where to sit. They seem to think, if they bumble around long enough, a Lido Deck will materialize and Julie the perky activities director will tell them where to go. As a result, they spend a great deal of time tumbling up and down the stairs like large, squashy Pachinko balls and end up wherever gravity finally has its way with them, usually the buffet.

As Christi and I settled into our window seats, tucking our backpacks under the seats, a group of Americans passed us by, looking for places to plug in their laptops. A nasal cry rent the air.

“Can you believe it? What was the point of this whole trip? Why did we have to leave and come here? Victoria is just like Seattle.”

At that moment, in all innocence (for once in my life) I looked out the window and said, “Oh look, a bald eagle.”

Christi replied, in a loudly incredulous voice, “ANOTHER one?”

New: Update on Eagles

Other eagle news on the raincoaster blog:

Catalina Island Eagles

Colorado Eagle Cam with three chicks

The latest on the Hornby Island eagles

The brand-spankin’ new Eagle Cam outside Swartz Bay

EVEN NEWER-ER

Peregrine Falcon Cam

George of the Concrete Jungle

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George of the Night

So have you heard the one about George Clooney? Not the Mr. X-ism, I mean, aren't we all perfectly aware that if he didn't Lothariorize Teri Hatcher he should have and if he did she's at least had that much more of George Clooney than the rest of us and bitch should just STFU.So not that one. This one:

George Clooney's Evil Plan Succeeds

On Friday, via an email sent from his publicist Stan Rosenfield, Oscar-winning ER doctor George Clooney commanded the masses to sabotage Gawker Stalker by sending us fake submissions. And oh, how they’ve responded to Clooney’s battle cry — our inbox was indeed flooded with hundreds of sightings, almost all of which were of George Clooney. We’re sure that’s exactly what he meant.

Just saw George Clooney at the Peninsula. He had a mustard stain on his jacket, was kissing a Mexican woman and eating a watermelon.

George Clooney has been sighted in Portland, Oregon! He was walking downtown by the Schnitzer Concert Hall and was wearing jeans with a hole in the knee (guess business isn’t too good!) and a long-sleeved grey/blue shirt.

i saw George in Philadelphia at Le Bec Fin’, a high end restaraunt in the heart of the city. He was very brief in his entrance and I believe he snuck out the back b/c i NEVER SAW HIM LEAVE THROUGH THE FRONT!

I saw george clooney outside the gawker.com offices just a minute ago.

Actually, that last one might be true. [Follow the Clooney and old ladylink and get] a taste of of the weekend email Clooneython, which has utterly destroyed our ability to grasp reality.

But, like, which would you rather have: reality, or George Clooney? Exactly. Meantime, here is one I sent in:

Saw George at about one this afternoon, turning tricks on Vancouver's Downtown EastSide, working the corner of Princess and Hastings. A couple of hours later he tried to get a burger at the Ovaltine Cafe, but he was drunk and sloppy and they threw him out. Later, I saw him helping a little old Vietnamese lady across the street. He stopped a Hummer with his bare hands.

Mark your calendar…just not where your wife can see

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And now we present this month's unmissable social event: MEAT 'n MIX

Thousands of happy customers can't be wrong. Get your fresh meat from Jamie Lee Hamilton, a woman with decades of experience in the flesh-peddling industry. Now you can own, instead of rent!

MEAT n MIXJamie Lee Hamilton
One-Woman NGO

Hi Friends,

Just a reminder of my One-Woman NGO MEAT n MIX happy hour on Friday March 31 from 4:30-7:30pm at the remodelled MIX pub in Mark James Lotus Hotel. The Lotus is located at 455 Abbott Street. You can visit my website at www.jamieleehamilton.com or Mix at www.lgbtmix.com

What is Meat n Mix you ask?
Well simply it is a number of Meat Draws
occurring on the last Friday of every month to benefit my One-Womean NGO which provides advocacy and support services to women and men involved in the sex trade.

This monthly event is an opportunity to come relax
after a hard week of work, be entertained, enjoy some good company, have a pint or martini or two and win some meat while supporting a good cause. Fun, surprises and give-a-ways.

Mark [last Friday of the month] on your calender for Meat n Mix from 4:30-7:30pm at Mix pub in the Lotus Hotel.

Cheers

Jamie Lee

The last time she was an NGO, Grandma's House got shut down for being a brothel and she ended up feuding to the point of death threats with the other board members and getting her medicine cut off by a vindictive government that wanted to force her to turn over the Society's books. So this should be worth watching.