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Recently, I was at a small gathering at a friend’s house, and I was talking to a nice young lady for a while. The conversation was going quite well, and I felt like I was making a new friend. But then, folks, she said something that totally turned it around. It’s something that both shocked and dismayed me, and I want to discuss what happened. You see, we were just going along, talking about things that were going on in the world right now, and then, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, she said, “I don’t know what the big deal is with that Avatar movie. I don’t think I’ll go see it.”

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If there’s one thing Vancouver does right, it’s make a good eggs benny.  I was having eggs benny with my good friend and famous architect Jonathon Stembridge-Rickenbacker at one of our favorite cafes, a friendly place in Little India.  Actually, I think the staff were all Filipino, so we might have been a bit north in Little Philippines.  Although, that’s probably too far north so it was probably more like Little Poland.  Suffice to say, Vancouver’s ethnic geographies do not model world geographies.  Back in Texas we had a saying: “Vancouver’s ethnic geographies do not model world geographies.”  Or, at least, that’s the saying I try to get going whenever I go back to visit the family ranch.  It hasn’t really caught on there, so maybe I should put a “ya’ll” on the end.  Let’s try it: “Vancouver’s ethnic geographies do not model world geographies, ya’ll.”  That’s much better.

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