(Photo credit: farmgalphotos)
Two gray kittens play
With a careless abandon
In grass and flower.
Burnaby Lake Regional Nature Park (Photo credit: City of Burnaby)
Four years ago, after arranging (and successfully executing) what was a very personally stressful annual client appreciation event, I decided to simultaneously blow off steam and reward myself by daytripping to Burnaby to canoe at Burnaby Lake with a friend. The weather couldn’t be better; August 31st, 2009 was a picture-perfect day. We had even seen a hawk dive bomb (and catch) its watery prey. It’s that dramatic once-in-a-lifetime moment that you Continue reading
Vancouverites (myself included) have a bit of an obsession with biking, and given our mild weather, it’s a sport that can be indulged in three-and-a-half seasons of the year. Virtually every Metro Vancouver municipality has its own biking tour in the summer time. This is Tour de Delta, held in Tsawwassen, with a focus on the lead riders at the start of the race.
Lime green and fire engine red are popular colour choices of biking apparel. But anything that keeps you from getting run down by cars and trucks is an okay colour to wear.
Greg Proops and Ryan Stiles Singing A Hoedown (Photo credit: Anirudh Koul)
I find improv to be the most exciting part of comedy. In particular, improv that actively encourages audience participation and pull-out-of-the-hat hijinks. It’s totally unscripted and uncalculated nimbleness of the mind and tongue. It’s funny with the fast forward button always pressed on (or should I say, stuck). The window of opportunity to be funny is about 2 seconds long, and the spontaneity factor is off the charts. When unlikely human props and physical shtick are used to unintended effect, the flubups can be just as comical.
It is, however, extremely hard to find DVDs of Who’s Line is it Anyway?–the American version hosted by Drew Carey and regularly staffed with The Drew Carey Show alumni Ryan Stiles, Canadian straight man Captain Hair aka Colin Mochrie, singer extraordinaire Continue reading
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