A few years ago I saw a GMC RV driving down Finlayson and Quadra tonight and I thought, holy crap, it's the urban assault vehicle from the movie "Stripes" and when it passed I saw the spare tire cover said, JOHN CANDY IN STRIPES

Dazed and Confused is a great coming of age movie from 1993 about a night in 1976. If they were to make a movie like that today it would take place in 2009.

Nasser bin Radan Al Rashid Al Wadaei died today. Saudi media claim he was born circa 1883–1884. Reportedly, his last marriage was at the age of 110, and that he later had a daughter.

What happens when a couple of hippie stoners hijack a ship carrying Napalm to Vietnam in 1970? They should make a movie about this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Colu...

Reza Pahlavi says it's time for new leadership in Iran (I'm sure his bags are already packed). While we're on the subject of defunct regimes, the Austro-Hungarian Archduke is a healthy 65-year old named Karl von Habsburg.

A new Steamoji has opened in the Shelbourne shopping plaza next to Noodlebox and Bosley's. I don't know if it's a hot-pot restaurant or a student learning centre. It may be both. #saanich

BC cracks down on AirBnb units this week. Non-approved hosts have their listing shut down--hosts trying to contact guests outside the app to make secret arrangements saw their app posts get taken down in real time by AirBnb bots/agents. #bcpoli

The thing foreigners would find most surprising about Canada is that every supermarket here has a section devoted to clam-based beverages.

Have you ever noticed the people depicted in all AI art have empty, vacant expressions? Even if the characters are expressing an extreme emotion there's a vapidness to it.

A friend was wondering about the possibility of life on other planets. My thoughts: 🌗 🌍 The earth/moon pairing in tandem seem to produce something very special. A stable and moderate climate. Other worlds appear to boil and/or freeze in a daily cycle. 1/4

Sing this sea shanty that wishes you good ferry trips in 2026!

Oct. 17, 1961 Vancouver Sun: 2026 is Doomsday if we don't get the population explosion under control. Colonizing space may be the only option. #2026

WSJ today quotes RNC Chair Joe Gruters saying he was "shocked" to witness Trump eat "french fries, a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburger, a Big Mac and a Filet-O-Fish" in one sitting. I've never been so disappointed in cholesterol.

If fitness is your resolution, I highly recommend Jim. He's basically just like me. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe1r...

Incompetent art restorer turned viral celebrity Cecilia Giménez has died aged 94. Her most infamous work was a well-intentioned but horrific restoration of a painting of Christ on the wall of a Spanish church. #eccemono

American classical pianist and instructor Gary Graffman has died aged 97. He was taught by Isabelle Vengerova (born 1877) who was taught by Josef Dachs (born 1825) who was taught by Simon Sechter (born 1788).

Victoria resident David Buxton has died aged 94, the last of the 14 Buxton children. When father Percy Buxton was asked about his large brood in 1935, the elder Buxton remembered a motto in his army barracks. "England expects every man to do his duty, and I am not going to let my country down". #yyj

Annette Dionne, the last of the remaining world-famous Dionne quintuplets, has died at the age of 91

I hope the OneBC Christmas staff party went ok this year. #bcpoli

James Brown died on this day in 2006. He had been preparing a new North American tour that would have included British Columbia.

The sacred ritual of Hunter S. Thompson burning the Christmas tree:

Last night I went to the new No Frills supermarket in the Hudson and to Mayfair Mall. I've been stepping inside both buildings since I was a kid in the 1970s but this time was utterly disorienting. Mayfair has been totally renewed since I was last there and of course the discount supermarket...🤯

Years before "The Sound of Music" Victorians learned the story of the Von Trapp family. The last surviving child, Johannes, the youngest child of Maria and the Captain is 86. He lived for a time at a ranch in British Columbia in the late 1970s.

Loose seal! You won't do your sister's will? Loose seal! You won't do your sister's will? You ran off and married, but I love you still

ROBERT RANDALL'S WARDROBE BY BOTANY 500

Time for some beautiful Christmas music: (You won't regret this) #christmas

I am amused at OneBC's moronic implosion yet to me, I enjoy politics like sports--I like to see excellence and professionalism, and nobody goes to a ballgame hoping to see pro ball players bobble an easy pop fly. #bcpoli

Couldn't figure out the good guys and bad guys in the OneBC slapfight until I realized like Shirer's book "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" the only good thing is that eventually it all ends. #bcpoli

This evening I saw a young woman at Pandora and Quadra crawling in the gutter on her hands and knees. Periodically she raised the glass pipe in her hand skyward like a conductor with a baton. Then she resumed her crawl. It seems obscene to think this is an every day thing in this town.

In the midst of a nasty union dispute my father designed a decal that portrayed anti-union forces in a greatly offensive manner. One sticker was placed on the engine of Pierre Trudeau's jet; legend says the great man refused takeoff until it was removed.

Someone we know was about to pour out a case of beer saying it was probably no good as it was a year old and we rescued it because what's the absolute worst that could happen? If I died people would say, "Hey Rob died from beer." "Oh wow? That sounds about right".

Douglas Robinson has died aged 98, took over the family's nearly century-old sporting goods store on Broad Street in Victoria from his father George.

Yo momma so old she got a tilde in her email address.

I've only gone on a whale watching tour once, off Tofino. We didn't see any whales but we saw the ship Leviathan II nearby rocking violently in the rough seas. A year later that ship capsized killing six. So I'm not a big whale watching fan to be honest.

Victoria resident Reid Hudson is dead, age 77. Bassist/vocalist for Blues X Five who opened for The Doors at the Victoria Memorial Arena in 1967. Later a member of As Sheriff and May Blitz sharing billing with T-Rex, Sabbath & Uriah Heep. Popular locally, neither band found global fame. #yyj

Oak Bay resident Lady Chatfield has died. AKA Elizabeth Chatfield at age 10 she was evacuated to Canada during WWII. Her many duties included being an ICAO translator and helping Palestinian refugees in Beirut with the UN. Her husband Ernie, second Baron Chatfield of Ditchling, died in 2007. #yyj

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: Def Leppard (Victoria) Waterboys (Victoria) Red Hot Chili Peppers (Victoria) Roger Whittaker (Victoria) Nine Inch Nails (Vancouver)

Note to next year's potential council candidates: you have to promise more than force other levels of government to lower housing costs and solve homelessness. #yyjpoli

Neil Baird has died a week shy of his 59th birthday. He was co-owner of The Beagle Pub in Victoria's Cook Street Village. #yyj

Trump was in the oval office today telling us once again that the word "groceries" is a new and/or old fashioned word. In case you were wondering about the state of human civilization.

I'm approaching that age when I should really be getting into King Crimson.

My very perceptive wife noticed image #43 depicting the big walk-in closet only half-full of men's short sleeve shirts. She says this is what a newly divorced man's closet looks like.

Next time I see "Home Style" on a menu I'm going to say, "no, please, cook it restaurant style. That's what I came here for".

It's uncanny.

Victoria Times, July 27, 1959

I'm increasingly of the opinion that the tech bros like Elon promoting AI are themselves empathy deficient. They don't understand the vitality of human interaction, indeed they likely find greater comfort interacting with technology than with people.

World War I was a disagreement among Queen Victoria's offspring about getting revenge for the murder of a has-been never-was minor Archduke that quickly spun out of control because the diplomats were on summer vacation. Let's honour our veterans by making sure that shit never happens again.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

OK #yyj I took this photo of the ceiling of a well-known building in the heart of Downtown Victoria. Where is it?

Tonight on "Canadian Seinfeld" George tries to impress his girlfriend by putting twenty dollars in the poppy tray but when he loses his poppy he has to find a way to steal a replacement