For dinner last night you ate a bag of cheese bops in front of your computer….go directly to jail and do not collect $200.



"LOCAVORE AT RAINCITY GRILL …. Press release, Part one

Vancouver, BC… The New Oxford American Dictionary is preparing for the holidays by making its biggest announcement of the year. The 2007 Word of the Year is "locavore", which describes the philosophy at Raincity Grill to a “T�. “Locavore� was coined two years ago by a group of four women in San Francisco who proposed that local residents should try to eat only food grown or produced within a 100-mile radius. Coincidentally, around the same time, Raincity Grill developed its 100 Mile Menu and became the first restaurant in Canada to embrace a truly local philosophy – working with both food items as well as wines. The “locavore� movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ markets or even to grow or pick their own food, arguing that fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better. Locavores also shun traditional supermarket offerings as an environmentally friendly measure, since shipping food over long distances often requires more fuel for transportation..."



Okay, all this running out to Abbotsford for carrots is fine, but it’s getting so been there, done that already. So we are proposing a new movement … become a BLOCKAVORE.

It’s a much easier diet. Forget the 100 miles. All you have to do is commit to a nutritional existence for weeks at a time based on what you can forage from within a one block radius of your television set.

It’s not that difficult. Trust us. Publishing and media types on deadline live like this all the time. The trick is to find a fortuitous block to live on.

In our case, we have a challenge. Other than the Kolachy Co which is making a decent stab at home made soup across the street, our particular stretch of Beatty offers up a 7-11 store, Starbucks, Players Chophouse, Dix Pub and the Dog Pound Burger Shack.

Yeah, this could get scary.

For one thing, there is always the possibility that a long term diet based on what these bastions of economic sustainability have to offer, may turn us into the same sort of Middle Earth creatures we saw oozing out of the stadium and running loose on the streets on Sunday … chugging from metal cans, honking air horns, turning over the garbage cans in front of fancy ass condo towers and baying at small, defenseless looking, hybrid eco cars.

Then too, there is always the real danger of permanent brain damage. We will keep a daily blog to help you stay informed of our progress, but if we start writing exclusively in contractions and stop deleting superfluous superlatives from press releases, then send in the medics.

However, looking on the bright side, there is always something to be gained. If we survive the ordeal we will write a best selling hardcover book, go on talk shows, and retire.

In the movie, the editor says she wants to be played by Diane Lane.