The Georgia Straight is Vancouver’s great, free weekly arts and culture newspaper. It’s also, I think, something of an institution. It’s so good that when my father moved up into the Okanagan, he had a subscription for a few years. In fact, I really ought to write an entry in praise of the Straight some time.
Every year they release a Best of Vancouver issue, which is generally pretty readable and great for out-of-towners. This year, we got our friend Sam’s business into it under Best way to spice up your life story (scroll about halfway down):
They say that everyone has a story to tell. Unfortunately, most people don’t know how to tell them, as anyone who has ever endured endless displays of vacation photos, home movies, or a drunken wedding speech can attest to. Instead of boring your relatives with meandering anecdotes, you can hire a company that will help turn your personal memories into readable biography. Echo Memoirs, founded by former journalist Samantha Reynolds, specializes in creating coffee-table books for weddings and anniversaries, as well as biographies of people or even house pets.
I also did an interview about Flowers for Al and Don, and that’s at the bottom of the same page:
Over the years, the Internet has demonstrated the ability to disseminate ideas across the world more quickly than any other medium in history. Unfortunately, many of those ideas revolve around the Star Wars Kid, Japanese porn, and penis-enlargement pills. In February, local technology writer Darren Barefoot tried to harness the power of the Internet to do something productive by creating Flowers for Al and Don, a Web site designed to raise money to send bouquets of flowers to same-sex couples who were getting married in San Francisco.
This pleased me, as while there was some good American press about Flowers for Al and Don, nobody had covered it locally until to now.
DarrenBarefoot.com 