Moonlight paddle

I put the kayak in at 3rd Beech the other night at sunset and went for a moonlight paddle to English Bay and Granville Island. It was awesome. Hot day, clear night with a full moon. The water was like glass.


Burrard street bridge leaving Granville island.


Vancouver Planetarium.


English bay.


City lights shimmering in the water.


Lights from the cargo ships.

TELUS Fears Shaw

I found this article rather amusing. TELUS (Darren Nitwhistle) is complaining about the fact that their competitor Shaw, is investing in Canwest Global Communications Corp.'s broadcasting. That's quite funny. TELUS has given Darren unlimited resources to censor the Internet and spend on advertising.

So if Shaw buys Canwest does that mean they get free advertising? Does that mean they can chose not to run TELUS adds? That is hilarious. Darren already put his foot in his mouth when he sent out a poster using Shaw's CEO picture quoting him as mocking TELUS' inability to compete in the market. Darren's response was dumb.

Have you heard those bizarre TELUS tales? They really sound like they are on crack. I remember the first one I heard on the radio. All about the perfect world where TELUS was the only service provider and someone was ridding a unicorn to candy mountain. I kid you not. It was bizarre. They obviously shouldn't have fired Wade.

Bedford Channel

I put in at the Bedford Channel in Fort Langley today. First cloud coverage we've had in a while. I've always had this image in my mind that the mighty Fraser was very fast moving and hard to paddle across. That depends on the time of year and the time of day. Spring run off the water is much faster but at the end of the summer it's not. When the tide comes in the current is almost reversed.

When I got out of the channel the river looked fine so I crossed it with ease. The news said the sockeye salmon and running and it's been the best run in ears. As a result they were opening up the river for commercial fishing for certain pockets. Today was one. Lots of boats out with nets. I saw a couple of salmon jump. One in the river and one close to my kayak in the channel. It's nice to see the salmon returning.

There was a group of young kids taking a lesson on a voyager canoe.

I Hate the way you Lie

I'm thrilled Rhianna and Eminem have a new hit single. I'm just concerned about the lyrics that makes the popular song deranged. Eminem is more famous for controversy and spewing some passionate dysfunctional issues yet he does have some talent. Lose Yourself and Mosh were good.

Rhianna is very pretty and very young yet she is very talented. We were shocked to hear of her being in an abusive relationship when Chris Brown assaulted her. Their new hit single, I love the way you lie, has a catchy tune but when you look at the lyrics, it's deranged.

Eminem is famous for his strange love hate relationship with his ex passionately rationalizes physical abuse in the song. He claims he is so devoted to making his relationship work that the next time she leaves he's going to tie her to the bed and burn the house down. People that is seriously messed up. What on earth is Rhianna doing in that video?

He goes on to apologize for being physically abusive then instantly admits his apology is a lie. Rhinana responds with she loves they way he lies. WTF? She says are you gonna stand there and watch me burn? That's OK because I like the way it hurts. She likes the abuse and she loves the way he lies when he apologises for it? That is seriously deranged. It's certainly not a happy tune for a healthy relationship.

Or how about his other new hit Spacebound. Same thing. Talks about how the girl wants to leave the relationship and how he's so devoted he’ll blow his brains out in her lap. But she's not listening so instead he'll squeeze her neck to stop her from breathing and snap her neck like a popsicle stick. That is criminally deranged.

Now we know Eminem likes to go for the shock value of drama like Cuirtin call in his Encore CD where he comes back to shoot the crowd dead but when the same bizarre message repeats itself, it isn't a good thing. I know I'm not shining example of healthy relationships but that certainly is not what I aspire to.

"Marcus Aurelius had a dream for Rome and that is not it." Gladiator