From "Weekend Bloggers":
At Urban Vancouver, Ray wonders what bloggers do during the weekends. I wondered that myself, since the best and most writing seems to come on weekdays, where on weekends bloggers either have lives or, like Ray suggests, don’t have access to the work computer. My computer is my work computer. Maybe most bloggers would just rather not provide evidence that they are sitting at home on Friday and Saturday nights?
From "These Cities Could Be Destined to Become Hollow Places":
I keep returning to an article and conversation about Vancouver in which the memorable comments describe the city as a “self centred, silly little place where the locals vastly overstate their importance, so much so [that] we have become an international embarrassment” and more succinctly, “a three dressed up as a nine”. I tried convincing a friend that Gastown, an area she’s getting to like (and, in fairness, which she visits more than I do), is a an infuriating place where both the fake touristy crap—like the guy who dabs on top of prints, faking that he’s finishing up a painting—and extreme poverty co-exist.
From "Notebook 2.0":
Last night at 2 AM I looked up ‘moleskine vancouver’ and found a wiki page for where to buy Moleskine notebooks in Canada, and went with Essence Du Papier on Robson & Granville (inside the Sears building), mostly because buying something from a store with a French name makes me feel snootier than I really am (also because it was close to work).
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