Gone to the Lone Star State
I'm visiting Austin for the first time ever...I'm eager to see the town. First stop: Whole Foods. Sure, it's not like I don't have one on my block in NYC, but the Austin flagship is the real deal!
Posted by Sebastian / Austin / April 30, 2008 /
Pre-fix
As I mentioned back in January, the rampant misspelling of prix fixe kills me. The newest restaurant in Chelsea, the cleverly named Ate Ave, has fallen victim to the troubling trend. Yesterday they had this sign out on the 8th Avenue sidewalk. Not only did they get the French wrong, but an apostrophe, too. But in that typical selective usage of grammar that seems to plague signs, they got "mimosas" correct.
Posted by Sebastian / New York / April 28, 2008 /
Vick Vancouver
 On Saturday night I had the pleasure of attending the launch party for "Vick Vancouver," the hilarious animated series about gay life in Vancouver that's sweeping YouTube by storm.
Vick moves to town from Halifax and encounters all sorts of hilarious big city trials and tribulations as he settles into Vancouver's uber-gay West End. He is described as "Friendly and outgoing on the internet but wow--this boy’s got something to learn about real-life interpersonal relationships." The show is brilliant and completely believable. I am in love!
New episodes come out every Sunday night, and according to one of the fairly secretive figures involved in the show's creation, the season is about to get pretty steamy. But let's just hope they don't go the way of Queer as Folk in its final season, becoming completely cliche as it attempted to tackle every gay issue in every episode. Nice work Nixey, David, Jody, et al. (And thank you for not hating me for ripping off that image from your web site.)
Posted by Sebastian / Media / Vancouver / April 26, 2008 /
Have I told you lately I hate dog (owners)
One thing I love about Vancouver is the lack of dog crap on the streets. Any New Yorker knows how much this counts for quality of life -- in NYC, the stuff is everywhere. You know what I'm talking about. Bad dog owners run rampant and the punishment for leaving doggie doo on the sidewalks and streets and parks, if ever enforced, is a mere pittance. Vancouver, despite being a dog-owning yuppieville, doesn't screw around -- they slap violators with $2,000 fines. Seems sensible to me.
Posted by Sebastian / Vancouver / April 21, 2008 /
Sun Run, survived.
Well, I survived it again. Despite my threats to the contrary, I did manage to complete the Vancouver Sun Run yesterday. This year's was event was even more massive than last year's, with more than 59,000 beating a path through downtown Vancouver in what is Canada's largest race, and the world's third-largest.
This year I was seeded a lot better than last year, so instead of beginning the race in the last slow-poke wave, I was in the first wave. Not having to trample over people made all the difference. I shaved five minutes off last year's time and ended in 2,893rd place, the top 4-5%. Yay! For anyone looking for an excuse for a trip, sign up for next year's race -- it is the most fun race I do all year! See you then!
In other running news, congrats to my friend John who ran and somehow managed to finish the Boston Marathon today!
Posted by Sebastian / Sports / Vancouver / April 21, 2008 /
West Coast weather
Vancouver's weather is notoriously unpredictable. Last night it snowed; this morning it's gorgeous and sunny. Out in English Bay this morning, sailboats were out in force while people were still dusting snow off their cars.
Posted by Sebastian / Vancouver / April 19, 2008 /
Hello from Toronto!
The best part of traveling is hanging around the airport for hours waiting for your flight to depart. As long as you're in an airline lounge. Today thanks to a prime upgrade I'm relishing in the Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge in Toronto's airport before flying to Vancouver. All airline lounges are not created alike; Air Canada's are really among the best.
Believe it or not, I love Air Canada. That's not a comment you often hear about Canada's much-reviled airline, but lately I've been experiencing some killer service from the airline that has been derided for so long as "Mapleflot."
Posted by Sebastian / Aviation / Toronto / April 18, 2008 /
AA in NYC
Angela Adams stopped into New York tonight with a terrific trunk show at Design Within Reach on the Upper East Side. My favorite designer, and not only because she is the only one of my babysitters to become well known, down-to-earth Angela gave an excellent presentation on her design inspirations (i.e. North Haven, Maine). A flock of North Haveners were in attendance, including 3/5 of my elementary school class (those in the know will understand..ha!). She has motivated me to finally pick up the "Kelly" runner below.
Posted by Sebastian / Style / April 17, 2008 /
Real Housewives of New York
 I have such severe ADD that I can't really watch TV very long without becoming completely distracted (I haven't seen a movie since 2005, if you can believe it!), but the Real Housewives of New York is keeping my attention. It's truly trash television, and I'm transfixed by it. The women are completely vapid but I can't take miss a second of the show (Real Housewives of Orange County was much better, but this is still TV crack).
Everyone watching the show seems to be in agreement: Alex and Simon are a freak show couple. Who brings her husband to girls' night? And what respectable woman says things like, "Jill is a great person to know. She can introduce to even better people." As Bethenny mused, "I think Alex overcompensates for insecurity by being pretentious."
Posted by Sebastian / TV / NYC / April 17, 2008 /
Toxic bottles!
I'm addicted to Nalgene bottles. I have at least a half-dozen of them, in all colors and sizes. But now the Canadian government is on the verge of declaring one of the bottle's main ingredients toxic and retailers and racing to pull their stock of the cool bottles.
Toronto Star: Major stores pull plastic bottles off shelves
Posted by Sebastian / Canada / April 16, 2008 /
Here we go again
The notorious Christian Civic League of Maine is back at it! They're now pushing a referendum that would ban marriage for same-sex couples, bar gay couples from adopting, strike sexual orientation protections from the Maine Human Rights Act, and eliminate civil rights teams in the Attorney General’s Office.
Posted by Sebastian / Maine / April 11, 2008 /
Errors galore!
The CBC British Columbia homepage featured this headline the other day. I couldn't believe it! Actually, I can...errors run amok, even among the media.
The Washington Post featured this incorrect headline today:
Reuters offered up this headline error:
Posted by Sebastian / Etceteras / April 7, 2008 /
The place.
The New York Times spring travel magazine has a huge spread on Vancouver, with a cool interactive feature accompanying it online. Check it out!
Posted by Sebastian / Vancouver / April 3, 2008 /
Poets gala
Last night I had the pleasure of attending the annual Poetry & The Creative Mind gala at Lincoln Center. It's always one of the best cultural events of the year, with celebs like Jonathan Demme, Meryl Streep, and Katie Couric reading their favorite poems in support of the Academy of American Poets. This year's best reader was certainly jazz singer Dianna Reeves, while the best poem was also the simplest one, E.E. Cummings' "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May," read by Katie Couric (whose 51-year-old skin looked great!):
maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and
milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;
and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea
Posted by Sebastian / NYC / April 2, 2008 /
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