West Hasting's becoming East Hasting will do that yeah. The area is becoming more and more gentrified with is nice for tourists and horrendous for the residents. It's a really awful situation that is incredible painful for so many people. WHOOO VANCOUVER WHOOO

I have. Brutal ones, even. I wouldn't ever act on them, but the thoughts can be there.

Since always.

East Hastings? My brother lives in Vancouver, and while visiting him I wanted to go to the police museum. He was at school so he gave me a map and sent me on my way.

Vancouver has some seedy parts for sure, and I grew up in NYC in the 80s, so I am not a delicate flower or anything! But when I went to Vancouver, I saw a guy, in broad day light, do a line of cocaine off the top of a car. And a girl shooting up in a park at like noon, making no attempt to hide it. So I think it's…

She's awesome. My mother does phone sessions with her from across the country and has never met her.

According to my therapist, it's extremely common, and healthy - to fantasize but not act (obviously).

Well, "fantasies"... what does that mean? Like, ideation? or something that you inagine that gives you pleasure?

There was a blind item reveal on Crazy Days and Crazy Nights:

If you watch their reality show, which I caught bits and pieces of recently, it really appears that they have their marriage in front of the camera act down really well. Not sure there is much reality tv going on there.

I am sad to see Cory go (the few watchable moments the last two seasons of glee involved him). His issues as a youth with stealing, drug abuse, going through many different schools, and overcoming those adversities (to an extent) was an inspiring story.

This is going to sound weird, but I sometimes think about how I would cover up a murder, but not really think about the act. I just wonder how long it would take the cops to catch me, what I would be doing when they find me, how I would act in an police interview. I wonder what that says about me?

We used to go up to Vancouver for various punk shows and many of them were in the super sketchy neighborhood which I am failing to remember the name of right now. It's downtown by the train station. Anyway, I remember walking from the show to grab some food with a friend and it was like we wandered onto the set of a…

There does seem to be more US media attention on Canadian news events these days, but things like this have always happened... We have biker gangs, mafia, drug trafficking, human trafficking, school shootings, junkies, serial killers, thieves, whorehouses...Everything. For the most part we're fairly close in culture…

That elephant looks so genuinely happy and delighted. I aspire to have friends like that.

Hey, go easy on Vancouver. Every city in the world has drug-related issues. Calgary isn't perfect, nor is Toronto. Vancouver just stands out more because of the long history of the DTES.

If you ever see Questlove in person... TALK TO HIM! I ran into him a couple times on the Amtrak to iladelphel and he was so chill and down to earth!

Lindy- thanks for sharing the Amy video. The voice...ah. I now have THE SHIVERS. The fact that she was able to not sound all screechy when she got emotional is (was?), I suppose, another sign of her gift. I cant even speak in a normal voice when crying and AW just did so beautifully there. Sad, sad song...caps…

I have actually watched the Tia and Tamera reality show, they really seem to be genuinely nice people. Now Guiliana and Bill, they make me want to poke my eyeballs out.

Since when has Canada become such a sordid backdrop for death and mayhem?