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I know I'm biased but I thought Vancouver's Olympic ceremony was beautiful. Respectful. Tasteful. Simple. Appropriate. On the now infamous "glitch", I'll leave the plethora of apropos sexual innuendos out and just say, well, 3 out of 4 ain't bad, it's pretty Canadian, the almost-but-not-quite. Not-perfect isn't not-well done I think that's something we understand. Except when it comes to hockey.

We tend not to shout very much about how we feel about this gorgeous and open-minded place we call home, it's good now and again to let people say it for us. On that front, being the word junkie I am, I love that they had the chutzpah to send a slam poet up there and the Vancouver Sun has Shane Koyczan's Yay for Canada piece in it's entirety here. We are the abandoned hesitation of all those who can't wait. Love that.

It was also a day when tragedy and celebration sat side by side holding hands, when a sobering act of finality cut through a city-wide sense of party. Nodar Kumaritashvili & family, peace. News networks, for airing that crash over and over and over again? Shame, shame.

Oh and for what it's worth I thought KD Lang took Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and made Justin Timberlake sound like a child just learning how to sing. She gave it to that performance, beautiful.

Keep safe all.
I've got to go get some sleep because the party is just getting started over here.
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