Wenlock and Mandeville…What happened to Olympic Mascots?

The 2012 London Olympic mascots have recently been unveiled….and yes they are metal cyclops blobs with no feet, oven mitt hands,  taxi light hats, and phallic figures (especially Wenlock). These things creep the hell out of me, and if I was a kid, I wouldn’t want one staring at me by my bed. Pretty sure [...]

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The Central and West Island

We were based in Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park for the next two nights to explore some of the central island, and at Bella Pacifica in Tofino for the last two nights to explore the West coast.

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The North Island

For the past week my girlfriend and I had been camping around Vancouver Island. I had never been outside Victoria and wanted to get a good sense of what the rest of the Island had to offer so we explored the North, Central, and Western regions of Vancouver Island. With the help of some miraculous [...]

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Sherlock Holmes = Doctor House?

I finally got around to watching Sherlock Holmes today and I couldn’t get over how much Holmes reminded me of House. Both are keenly observant, rational-minded, brilliant at solving mysteries, and witty. They have only one friend and are very reliant of them, don’t abide to social norms, and have unorthodox methods. Sherlock Holmes does [...]

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