Archive for February 27th, 2008

What's on the radio today:

    - Get your pink on today.

    - Hannah Montana / Miley Cyrus: The Best of Both Worlds is coming to town in March. You can prebuy tickets for the movie now.

    - I didnt mention this on air, but I found today's entry at Urban Diner compelling and wanted to share.  Andrew Morrison was to go to dinner last night, but didnt make it after watching a man jump off the Granville St Bridge.  Chilling.

    - Looking for something to drink for the weekend? It's Wine Wednesday!

    - Thinking about starting up a business? This Nail Taxi idea from NY sounds pretty cool.

    - Are you a size 6 one place, an 8 the next and an extra small somewhere else? It's called vanity sizing, here's a guide.

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As someone who got his fair of share of getting picked on as a kid, today I will wear pink.

I had braces. I had glasses. I was small. I did what my mom told me.

Add that up and chants of “spaz! spaz! spaz!” hang from the rafters at hockey practice, or a nickname of “mamma’s boy” gets tossed your way in the frat house.

“David Shepherd, Travis Price and their teenage friends organized a high-school protest to wear pink in sympathy with a Grade 9 boy who was being bullied…[They] took a stand against bullying when they protested against the harassment of a new Grade 9 student by distributing pink T-shirts to all the boys in their school.

‘I learned that two people can come up with an idea, run with it, and it can do wonders,’ says Mr. Price, 17, who organized the pink protest. ‘Finally, someone stood up for a weaker kid.’

So Mr. Shepherd and some other headed off to a discount store and bought 50 pink tank tops. They sent out message to schoolmates that night, and the next morning they hauled the shirts to school in a plastic bag.

As they stood in the foyer handing out the shirts, the bullied boy walked in. His face spoke volumes. ‘It looked like a huge weight was lifted off his shoulders,’ Mr. Price recalled.

The bullies were never heard from again.” [source]

I’ve been wearing pink shirts for years, around 2003 I almost got into a fist fight in Willowbrook Mall over it. I had just come back from golfing, was rocking the pink and this guy looked and smirked as he walked by. I said “Excuse me?” He proceeded to tease and laugh at me for wearing a pink shirt. Keep in mind I’m in my 30s, he’s in his late 20s.. I could only chalk it up to being in Langley, a land of lesser enlightment. It degrades to where we’re almost at blows, yelling obscenities across a mall.

Over a pink shirt.

Today I will wear pink. I hope you will too.

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It’s been going all week and tomorrow the main event of the 30th Annual Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival hits town - the wine tastings at the Trade and Convention Centre

However, this past weekend, Jen and I along with a couple of other couples, had our own little wine fest! When you’re married to a wine rep, and head over to a colleague’s house is a wine rep, and also married to a wine rep, you know some grape will be poured and 4 bottles of beauty hit the table on Saturday night.

First the menu: There was a spicy sausage and creamy cheese tray with baguette while we chilled, then dinner was a beef tenderloin that absolutely melted with white asparagus, green beans and potatoes. A roasted tomato and spinach salad was on the side.

Here are 2 of the 4 wines we polished off:

Domaine de Montfaucon 2005 Viognier - Now I don’t recognize this grape right off the bat either, it’s not a big 6, but this Viognier was smooth and easy drinking. Right away I could taste the honey, our hosts said honeysuckle, but I thought it was richer, right to honey. Wiki says: The color and the aroma of the wine suggest a sweet wine but Viognier wines are predominantly dry.

Pinotage - Jen thinks this one tastes like band aids, the South Africans at our table were drifting back home as they talked about the smell being like an African camp fire. After all, it is South Africa’s signature grape. In the end, I agreed with Jen, it had a dusty medicinal taste that just didnt do much.

Some interesting choices there for your weekend sipping, or maybe you’ll head off to the ‘Fest and get your glass on. Before you do that, have a quick look over the Insiders Guide for Wine Festivals.

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