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Fast and Furious Movie Review

April 11th, 2009

Fast and Furious. It’s faster and furiouser than ever before. Well, not really, but that’s the kind of intensely creative dialogue that you should be expecting from this fourth installment in the Fast and Furious franchise. Don’t expect anything close to sophisticated rhetoric and mind-twisting conundrums, because that’s not how Dominic Toretto and Brian O’Conner [...]

Mondo Spider Invades Vancouver

May 24th, 2008

Since we were already downtown for the Vancouver International Game Summit, Stephen Fung and I decided to take a quick jaunt over to the Art Gallery.
It was there that they were holding an opening day reception welcoming both guests from VIGS and folks there for VidFest. Unfortunately, there was no open bar (you had to [...]

Nissan GT-R is Jay Leno Approved

April 28th, 2008

I had the opportunity to check out the 2009 Nissan GT-R when I was in Tokyo late last year and then I had another look at it when it rolled into town as part of the 2008 Vancouver International Auto Show. There is no denying that the Nissan GT-R is an absolute beast of a [...]

2008 Vancouver International Auto Show

April 14th, 2008

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Zoom zoom zoom. Just as I attended the 2007 Vancouver International Auto Show last year, I had the opportunity to head under the dome at BC Place Stadium for the 2008 Auto Show earlier this month.
Because I write about cars as part of [...]

What’s Up Wednesdays: A 650hp Volkswagen Golf Gone Mad

October 10th, 2007

Maybe I’m getting older, but it seems like time has been passing by a lot more quickly than when I was younger. It seems nearly unfathomable that Halloween is only three weeks away and we all know what that means… Christmas is just around the corner. Before you know it, you’ll be sipping on eggnog, [...]