Gazebo in Vancouver

[Antisocial_Worker]

Part 1

Part 2

[AnaKhouri]

What a wonderful city. It looks like such a hodgepodge! And the nature scenery is to die for.

What were the creepy bronze statues of the laughing men? All I could think was that they belong in a Satoshi Kon anime...

[sms001]

Gorgeous, thank you Gaze.

[bhskittykatt]

And you didn't stop by here to say hi...

[Antisocial_Worker]

And you didn't stop by here to say hi...

I apologize for that, although if memory serves, aren't you in between Vancouver and Seattle somewhere? We took a train from one to the other and wouldn't have been able to stop on the way. We also didn't have a car when we were up there. I'm sorry to have missed the chance anyway though.

[bhskittykatt]

Okay. Since you were on the train, I can forgive you.

Great pics, btw. Is that the Sam Kee Building in the third pic of Part 2?

[Antisocial_Worker]

Okay. Since you were on the train, I can forgive you.

Great pics, btw. Is that the Sam Kee Building in the third pic of Part 2?

I'm not sure... By the Sam Kee Building, do you mean that really thin building? The one that's supposed to be the thinnest in the world? It might have been. I remember that building was very close by to where we were there.

[Gravekeeper]

"1 -- Canadian television sucks. Frequently my boyfriend and I were reduced to watching shows about obnoxious people trying to decide whether to sell their houses or merely renovate them."

I was about to lambast you for not changing the channel off of Home & Garden, but apparently thats all your hotel room allowed. Plus, half your shows are filmed here anyway ( just got a filming warning from Fringe at the office, bastards ;p ).

Also, I am bemused by your comments on historical architecture, whilst you walk through national historic sites and take severals pictures of buildings ranging from 90-100+ years old. However, I have no idea what those laughing golden men are and frankly it scares the fark out of me that they are in the same city as I am....

No pictures of the Colosuem though? I thought it rather sticks out and you were fairly close too it. You also missed the Boss.

In addition, you wandered dangerously close to the territory of a certain horrific rap group btw, you're damn lucky you weren't out there later at night. Lest you be beset by lyrics like "I like your shoes, they're shiny. Just like ivy." >.>

Edit: Oh sweet Christ, those creepy statues are all that guy does.

[bhskittykatt]

I'm not sure... By the Sam Kee Building, do you mean that really thin building? The one that's supposed to be the thinnest in the world? It might have been. I remember that building was very close by to where we were there.

Yeah, that's the one.

[Antisocial_Worker]

"1 -- Canadian television sucks. Frequently my boyfriend and I were reduced to watching shows about obnoxious people trying to decide whether to sell their houses or merely renovate them."

I was about to lambast you for not changing the channel off of Home & Garden, but apparently thats all your hotel room allowed. Plus, half your shows are filmed here anyway ( just got a filming warning from Fringe at the office, bastards ;p ).

It seemed that way, although in actuality we had a choice between old movies, the house shows, and people who looked as though they had been heavily sedated droning on about tariffs. By contrast, in Seattle we watched a historical analysis of zombies, Mexican perverts yelling at each other in open court, and a litany of shows featuring sprawled victims with their faces and genitals blurred so as not to offend and some hapless cop charged with figuring out the details.

Also, I am bemused by your comments on historical architecture, whilst you walk through national historic sites and take severals pictures of buildings ranging from 90-100+ years old. However, I have no idea what those laughing golden men are and frankly it scares the fark out of me that they are in the same city as I am....

I know that Vancouver has a lot of historic buildings, but you have to admit that in most cases, something was on the land before all those shiny glass towers came in. One thing I noticed in Seattle that I didn't in Vancouver was that in Seattle, a great many of the new towers kept the old facades of the buildings they replaced. One, a public swimming pool dating from the 1920's, had a facade that crawled with statues and carvings, and rising up from that was a tall glass condo tower.

That's not to knock Vancouver at all though. You may have misunderstood me. Whatever Vancouver is, it's aggressively alive, vital, and thriving. All the old buildings and all the new buildings too, were designed with people in mind, not just traffic flow like you would ordinarily find in the US. This means that the buildings hug the sidewalk, there aren't curb cuts and garage cuts every few feet, no vast expanses of blank, pedestrian-traffic-killing walls... nothing like that. Vancouver, as new as it is, is an almost perfect example of urban design. Visit Atlanta or Charlotte, two American cities that wiped out most of their history, to see what I'm talking about. Their downtowns look great from afar with all their shiny towers, but from the ground it's crap, with nothing to engage anyone walking. They're just places to go through in your car.

Edit: We saw the library, but it was raining that day and we weren't taking pictures.

[Gravekeeper]

It seemed that way, although in actuality we had a choice between old movies, the house shows, and people who looked as though they had been heavily sedated droning on about tariffs.

So you had one movie channel, Home & Garden and the Pariliment channel? Yeaaah, see even we don't watch that. Not having Teletoon or the Comedy Network or even Discovery sucks though.

That's not to knock Vancouver at all though. You may have misunderstood me. Whatever Vancouver is, it's aggressively alive, vital, and thriving.

Thriving. Thats one word you could use about the Granville denizens at night I suppose... >.>

[Antisocial_Worker]

So you had one movie channel, Home & Garden and the Pariliment channel? Yeaaah, see even we don't watch that. Not having Teletoon or the Comedy Network or even Discovery sucks though.

We had a few other channels. We didn't have Discovery though. I seem to remember Comedy Network, but there was never anything good on.

Thriving. Thats one word you could use about the Granville denizens at night I suppose... >.>

The fact that Granville was busy at four in the morning spoke well of Vancouver. As for the sorts of people out and about at that time of the morning... My point was though, that Vancouver is without a doubt an international city, and a city that's busy 24/7. That's about as good as it gets for an urban connoisseur.