Golden Age?

I'm always skeptical of claims that things were better in the past then they are now, but the distance from nature in our modern cities is one of those areas where I'd say that the past probably was better.

Over in the land of drivel, Doug talks about growing up in Vancouver in the 50's and 60's and links to some wonderful photos (by Fred Herzog) of Vancouver in that era. Fascinating stuff for someone like me who has only lived in Vancouver for a short time and has very little knowledge of the city it used to be.

She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature beef.

Paul Wells is doing a good job with the politics, but he's falling behind Doug's Dynamic Drivel in the race for most humourous blog. Doug's recent list of high-school writing class metaphors is great fun, even if "His vocabulary is as bad as, like, whatever."