Midlife Man

I’m in BC Ferry’s quiet lounge listening to a husband mansplain to his wife the viciousness of water buffalo. #blessed

@RichDalMonte @CBCGloria @CBCEarlyEdition @TriCityNews @BurnabyNOW_News @TheRecord Thanks for speaking to this Richard. Sad day. Another brutal summer. #localnewsmatters

If you're so inclined, you can listen to my chat with @CBCGloria on @CBCEarlyEdition this morning about the final print editions of @TriCityNews @BurnabyNOW_News @TheRecord. #newspapers #journalism #localnewsmatters cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

@CaraMcK @sthomas10 @VanCourierNews @blinkwriter @Howellings @Naoibh We had JACKETS!?

Found this @VanCourierNews dish in a #thrift store today. Guy charged me $5, because “it’s brand new.” @MidlifeMan1 @blinkwriter @Howellings @Naoibh #localnewsmatters

Spent 12 hours with firefighters who work out of No. 2 hall in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. It's believed to be BC's busiest fire hall. Remarkable experience on many levels. Story/photos: ow.ly/nj3L50LRWL0 #DTES #Vancouver

Big ups to my former @VanCourierNews colleague @Howellings. He's one of the best in the game... and he also makes a mean lunch 🔥🔥🔥

As usual, some great, insightful and thorough civic reporting from my old colleague @Howellings. And sadly, as usual, "voter turnout was 36.3 per cent" 😬

Realized I've been writing about the Downtown Eastside for 20 years. So I reflected on those two decades in a column. You can read it here: ow.ly/CcfS50Kc3Gn #DTES #Vancouver

Tonight’s the night. The fine folks at Knowledge Network @kpassiton are airing my doc on artist Hinda Avery and her fantastic paintings of foul-mouthed elderly women taking on the Nazis. Stoked. knowledge.ca/program/hinda-…

@bychrischeung WTF! That is some serious #sevilledisobedience... Ayooo. But seriously folks....

@MidlifeMan1 Thanks to you, I started screaming at the part she picked up navel oranges rather than Sevilles. theglobeandmail.com/life/first-per…

Nanaimo at its best

Hometown represent!

Songs that never need to be played publicly again: Hotel California, Piano Man, Brown Eyed Girl. Songs that will forever be exempt: Crazy Horses. youtu.be/QXQVSTfhoRo

@GrapeyWine @watson_bg @kezwilliams13 soundcloud.com/sheena-bizarre…

@watson_bg @kezwilliams13 Mash-up request, remember when that was a thing? What was the best one? Danger Mouse "Grey Album"? Fun!

👏👏👏 Well-deserved and an important read. @bychrischeung keeps knocking them out of the park... friends.ca/explore/articl…

Something to remember the next time you drive down East Hastings: There's a direct line between the horrors of residential schools and the Downtown Eastside. #dtes #vanpoli thetyee.ca/News/2020/12/1…

There comes a time in one's life when you finally decide to get your @UVic_Alumni card 27 years after graduating, make a video about how you obtained said card and then encourage others to join you on the emotional journey. This is one of those times...

Last time I was inside Esquimalt’s Archie Browning Sports Centre was to see Fugazi. Twenty years later it’s where I got me some of that sweet sweet vaccine. Boom!

Stoked to announce that Bayla's Issues, based on Hinda Avery's comic strip, animated by @modmarty and voiced by @ellken2 is headed to Washington, DC next month for JxJ Washington Jewish Film Festival jxjdc.org/events/baylas-…

@flematic @VanCourierNews That was one of those amazing community stories where a reader/attendee of the birthday party called the day of and said "I thought this would be a good Courier story... you should come down." @Jen_Gauthier and I headed over after a full day of work, and we were glad we did.

@Sam_WineTeacher @MikeKlassen I can’t vouch for that...

@MidlifeMan1 @MikeKlassen And nobody died.

This happened in Nanaimo exactly 15 years ago tonight when we were allowed to spit beer on each other and in consenting adults' mouths. Happy night before Christmas eve, everyone. youtu.be/bkGLkTfkGSU