I didn't believe.

this is a special non-lunch post to say congratulations to all of canada's athletes who competed at the olympics. I don't need to say that it's the most golds any country has ever got in the winter olympics, cuz the news has already said that enough times. I wonder, though... is it also the most events the winter olympics have ever had? anyway, well done. with all the ads and that stupid song asking me if I believe, I had to say no. but hey, I guess I believe now. click on this pic of the moment canada won the record-breaking gold to see it wiggly.

and this guy carried his flag:

through holt renfrew
comments: click this pic to see why I was in the mall. basically, we were stuck at granville and robson shortly after the big game. there was nowhere to go. the hockey zombies were going crazy. the only escape was pacific centre. ha. who knew someday I would be happy to get into a mall! makes sense, I guess. it's just where you go when zombies attack.

and all the streets were:

celebrating.
comments: click the lotus to see an arial shot of granville street. after being stuck in the crowd, I grew some wings and got some decent pics. btw, expect many many more wigglies from this exciting day over the next week to be posted here. I took a lot. one of my faves was this photobomb that erin did. wait in line to sit in a bobsled?? no way! just photobomb it!

don't you lunch her madly?

slices
from: papa's pizza
price: 3 X $1.55
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the doors
comments: quick lunch on the go today. pap's pizza is always good for that. the 'special' was some eggplant pizza. very tasty. click to see minion, who has been staying with me and hemi this month. she goes home on saturday. :(

she just wants to lunch herself

mediterranean chicken burger
from: white spot
price: treated!
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: nirvana
comments: today I met the chan clan for greg's dad's birthday. good times. even little baby diego came along. click to see someone idea of national pride.

and the birthday boy had:

a burger
comments: click james' lunch to see a blurry pic of him and his grandson.

and greg had:

cheddar bacon bigger burger
comments: click greg's lunch to see a wiggly of the city reflecting the sun trying to break through. poor sun. it was great and shining last week. this week? not so great.

how I'd lunch to be your man

bacon cheese burger
from: moderne burger (west broadway)
price: i forget. $12ish?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: big audio dynamite
comments: modern burger makes a tasty burger. it's no splitz burger, but it's good. click to see a tilt shifty wiggly I made form zoltan's apartment on the weekend. it's the irish house in the middle of the pic. I went there last week. it's like a big tent with beer. feels like a bzzr garden. want another wiggly? have a look at yaletown

there's a luncheon in your eyes all the way

gregmcmuffin
from: home
price: n/a
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: culture club
comments: I really am listening to that. over the weekend, I took in this code live thing down on great northern way. they had some neat stuff there. like a giant robot spider!! they also had some boom boxes boomin'. and their own death star in the foyer. now click my lunch to see how that death star readying to attack the 'couve.

how by this lunch... while you could stand there

deep fried spaghetti!
from: toratasu (on denman)
price: $13ish
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: U2
comments: today I went to this place on denman that does jaPasta. and it was really good. deep fried spaghetti was quite tasty. click to see the outside of this restaurant.

and erin had:

some other pasta
comments: erin liked her lunch, too. click to see where we ended up having dinner.

and we both had:

daikon salad
comments: this, too, was good. but more about these japanese food trucks in richmond: they are really good. go try it. really good. right by the rona.

hello stephen colbert

bagelwich
from: home
price: n/a
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
comments: today I went down by science world to join a huge crowd of people and watch stephen colbert tape his show. it was awesome. click to see him. or you can watch him high fivin' or workin' the stairmaster.

and I walked:

a lot today.
comments: click this pic to see a bigger version of the route that took me to bill, stephen colbert, neil, ritchie and some free olympic hockey tickets. that was a long long walk.

my first olympic hockey game!

samwich
from: swiss bakery
price: $6ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
comments: today I was treated, by Navarik, to an olympic hockey game! not only my first olympic hockey game, but my first hockey game, period! first time being in gm place. first time time in a box suite thingy, too. lotsa firsts today! first time time seeing a zamboni with dope rims. first time seeing kevin in red mittens. click my lunch to see germany and sweden all lined up ready to play. the swedes won 2-0, btw. people were excited to see the sedins there. but I thought their helmets didn't look regulation. I also go to go on nav's roof again. it'd been a while I may have seen a korean athlete out on her balcony.

I come clean out of lunch with my luncher

non veggie lunch special
from: nirvana
price: $14ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: modest mouse
comments: click my lunch to see canada getting a silver at the first of the medal ceremonies. go canada, eh.

and travis had:

the veggie lunch
comments: after meeting the techops guys for lunch, I went for quite a long bike ride to richmond. click travis's lunch to see some drawbridges in richmond. drawbridges! awesome.

and phil had:

some chicken dish
comments: if you click phils lunch, you better do it slow.... aw yeah, it's a goose rave!

such a lunchly place, such a lunchly face

greg mcmuffin
from: home
price: n/a
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: the eagles
comments: more olympic talk. on the weekend, I won this contest where the globe and mail is giving away olympic tickets. the tickets were for a medals ceremony thingy. it was pretty neat. although, I left shortly after nelly furtado started her set. the thing that blows my mind is that we've had large stadium concerts for decades now. but we still haven't figured out how to make it not sound like crap, you know? it's crazy. click my lunch to see the dude who also won some tickets in this contest. if you look in the background, on the left, you will see the people who were in charge of giving out these tickets.

its olympic time.

farmer's omelet
from: deacon's corner
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
comments: today was the start of the first ever olympics in my hometown. and probably the last. cuz I don't think they ever repeat a place, unless you are greece or something. click my lunch to see city hall all decked out. note the half-mast flag for the luger. the strange part is that by midnight that night, the flag was back to normal. short grief period?

and bill had:

something veggie
comments: i think most of canada saw these ceremonies. so I don't need to say nothing about them. but at the end, I went out to try to get fireworks pictures, thinking that it would be way bigger than just bc place. but it wasn't. click my lunch to see my way-to-zoomed-out gif of the fireworks. wait for it... it's not my typical gif. and if you really didn't see any of the ceremonies, here. for a better view of the fireworks, check it out from chris's place. awesome timelapse.

célèbre la flamme olympique

bagel sandwich and spinach salad
from: solly's (off main)
price: $12.35
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the torch relay make its way around our city
comments: so, today I heard all this noise outside, yelling, sirens, honking, and I poked my head out my door and realized this was the olympic torch relay. so I look it up on their map to find that it was going down victoria drive. victoria drive!!! I live just west of main, and I could hear victoria drive! crazy. so, looking at the map, I found that they'd be going by queen e park eventually. a quick shower, I hoofed it over there. just in time. not a minute too soon. click my lunch to see the torch. or you can see the non stop dancers or the crowd at 37th and main.

ps: buy my app

buy my app!!

egg sandwich
from: home
price: n/a
rating: &&&/&&&&&
comments: today 50fware's iPhone app was approved by apple, and is now available in the itunes store. if you got an iphone. and if no one else can help. maybe you can download... the internet has spoken. and if you don't have an iphone/ipod, tell your friends to buy it so you can try it. you will be amused. go now... click my lunch, buy our app!!!

baby's first burrito.

bennies
from: zen cafe
price: free! greg treated!
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
listening to:
comments: another blunch at cafe zen. not just with greg this time. but with the whole chan family! click to see a gif I made of the big lights down in the english bay area. later in the evening, I rode me bike down to take some pictures of those big lights lighting up our city. click to see that. or you can see it closer here.

and nicole had:

a breakfast burrito
comments: click nicole's blunch to diego's first burrito!! ok, so maybe he didn't eat it. but I like that one eyed 'whatchootalkinaboutmom?' kinda look. haha.

and greg had:

bennies, too
comments: click this one to see what he also had. half a blueberry smoothy.

burned by the fire of lunch

ramen! with extra cha-shu
from: menya
price: $10ish
rating: delicious.
listening to: U2
comments: today I met pshen for some noodles. afterwards I wandered about taking more olympic wigglies. click my lunch to see the oh so controversial australian flag hanging from olympic village.

and phil had:

ramen, too
comments: click phil's lunch to see across the street from his work. the city tv building is now a giant flag. ok. I took many more wigglies, like this harris shutter one, or this crazy round one. and don't forget about the giant hotdog links floating in false creek.

well I lunch you and I want you

lamb shank noodle soup
from: legendary noodle house
price: I forget, $6ish?
rating: &&&&&/&&&&&
listening to: matthew sweet
comments: lunch with tommy, travis, teo, phil and dana. legendary noodles. and after that I had a salt spring island coffee latteeee. click to see said latte.

and travis had:

something other than the lamb.
comments: travis tried something different that the usual. he said he would order it again. I'm sure everything at legendary is legendary. click to see something I saw posted on a pay phone. is this graffiti? or art? or public service? or littering? I'm not sure. but it wiggled interestingly.

and tommy had:

"bubble muscle" in his soup.
comments: we weren't sure what bubble muscle meant. or was it 'beef bubble'? nah, I think it said muscle. anyway, click to see a toy soldier atop my local toy store.

and we shared:

steamed juicy dumplings and spinach vermicelli
comments: you're looking at the dumplngs. if you click em, you'll see the noodles n spinach. man, I love these two dishes.

my lunch for friends and family

fried egg sandwich
from: home
price: n/a
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: blind melon
comments: all outa bagels. must get more. click to see hemi with his roommate for the month. ok. that's too wiggly. I know, here's a better pic of little minion.

5 years of LATV!!!

bennies
from: zen cafe
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
comments: that's right, this post marks 5 effin years of this blog. crazy. I remember the first year I did a 'greatest hits' blog entry. then the next year, I began compiling another greatest hits. and then, there were no more greatest hits. it's enough work just getting my lunch and my wigglies up here. and why do I do it? why, indeed. click to see some harris shutter action.

and greg had:

bennies, too
comments: to celebrate 5 years of latv, I am posting the wrong lunch! this was actually tuesday's lunch, but I already blogged today's lunch (with ritchie) yesterday. ugh. confusing. anyway, click greg's lunch to see a house where one of the founders of greenpeace once lived or something. that's what greg was telling me, so I fact checked and the house is mentioned in this book. so there ya go.

meanwhile, at WhiteWater Mountain, Brian had:

Chili con carne w/cornbread. $9. Pitcher nelson wild honey ale. Whitewater mountain.
comments: brian says this about his lunch, "Super duper tasty! Sorry if unfocused!" click to see giant pictures of other people skiing and stuff.

well someone told me yesterday that when you throw your lunch away...

enchilada
from: mexico tacos rico
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&.4/&&&&&
listening to: the police
comments: I met ritchie for delicious mexican food today. we didn't have mango water, we had horchadas? the rice milk-cinnamon drink. man, it's tasty. next time I got back here, I get the mango water. it's been too long. the other night, I saw Blade - Trinity on tv. there's one part where blade is dangling a bad guy over a parking lot down ramp. if you click my lunch, you will see that exact parkade. skip to the last ten seconds of this video

and hey ritchie had:

tacos, beans n rice
comments: when I met ritchie in his office, he modified the video panel thingy he was working with to say hey to me. click his lunch to see that.

oh oh, I lunch her so

grilled peanut butter and banana sandwich
from: home
price: n/a
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the ramones
comments: for those of you that scoff at the idea of this sandwich, that's fine by me. it was truly delicious. but for those that think it might be a good sandwich, lemme tell ya the ingredient that really makes it awesome. mayo. that's right, mayonnaise! soooo good. on the weekend, I visited ed and christie and their little danica. that's probably the coolest soother I ever did see. click my sandwich to see a wiggly I took from their new neighbourhood.