The Terrible Twos
You know what? We almost forgot it was our birthday today.
But, then, we remembered there was a reason we spent an hour on YouTube looking at confetti cannon videos.
(READY THE CONFETTI CANNONS!)
Two-years-old. Now we get to be all cranky and agitated and you just have to deal with it. Ha!
Yup, two years ago, on this very day, Sally wrote the post that launched a blog. I quickly followed that with a post of my own (Stop upstaging me, Poulsen!) and we kicked off an Edmonton conversation that’s still going. It’s neat to look back at those first two posts and see that most of the goals and aspirations we had for the edmontonian actually happened, and are still being worked on today.
It’s also crazy to think about actually being around for two years. I’ve had couches that didn’t last that long.
This isn’t mine and Sally’s website though, it’s only here because people want it to be here. Without contributors, commentors, and an Edmonton conversation I don’t think we stick around this long.
The list of everyone that’s helped us, including writers, photographers, sponsors and advertisers, designers, video producers, and those involved in the edmontonian celebrates democracy (our election show), Saturday Night with Samsonow (basically a vehicle for Pepe) and the edmontonian presents (our new show on ShawTV), are way, way too numerous to thank. (You can also poke around the Guest Blogger, Feature, and opinion categories for a quick snapshot.) I’d totally leave people out and feel awful. I hope some of them pop into the comments so you can thank them personally. (And lots of them are on Twitter too.)
Edmonton is a great city. It’s not the world’s best, the largest, or the most nougat-filled, but it’s a great place to live. There are amazing people, fantastic businesses, fun activities, plenty of sports, tremendous music and art scenes, gorgeous geography, and passion. Sure, there are bad things, but every city has those too.
We are proud to have discovered Edmonton’s best and creative sides, and we are prouder to be able to share that with Edmontonians, Albertans, Canadians, and moon people.
(FIRE THE CONFETTI CANNONS!)
Nachos!
You love nachos.
We all do.
It’s OK for you to admit it. This is a safe place.
Everyone likes nachos, because you can load them up with meat, veggies, cheese, soy-cheese, whatever. It’s a food that can bring together foodies of all walks. And don’t even get me started on the possibilities of sides and dips.
Thank goodness, Edmonton now has its own official nacho blog. Tell Katie what you think of nachos, how to make super-kick-ass nachos, where to go for nachos, what you think of what she thinks of nachos from around Edmonton, and other nacho-related information.
Katie, we are going to make you our Nacho Bureau Chief, once our Bureau Chief money comes in.
Look up – Way up
You'll have to know this one already, or check the website to find out where this is.
I just recently returned from a trip to Ontario, which included a few days in the garbage-strewn streets of Toronto. (Oh fine, the garbage strike didn’t actually fill the street with garbage.)
I lived in Toronto once, and can remember forcing myself to look up whenever I was downtown. That city’s downtown being a little larger than Edmonton’s, I was downtown a lot.
I felt that there was all of this great architecture reaching for the sky, yet people rarely looked up to take it all in- to see reflections of bright blue sky and clouds in all of that glass. People were really focused on what was right in front of them, on their immediate path to the next whatever.
Which is why it’s really cool to see one of Edmonton’s bright young journo-blogging minds reminding us to look up.
Linda Hoang is pointing out that there’s some neat, some cool and some familiar stuff right above your head. But when do you really look up, except maybe when bored? You should take a peek sometime.
Her website has a growing gallery of ceiling photos, including restaurants, malls, and even apartments.
You can even submit your photos of ceilings.
If it sounds mundane, then I think you should poke around the website a little, because there are some really interesting things going on up above us, and some ceilings are damn impressive.
