Posts Tagged ‘dancing dan’

Making every red light a party since 2009.

We’re sending this one out to @dmah, who made both mine and Jeff’s day by daring to ask on twitter:

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This has been a running gag for Jeff and I since first we saw the So You Think You Can Dance van earlier this week. It has spawned several impromptu dance routines and a hastily created theme song that Samsonow refuses to stop singing. For those of you who haven’t seen it, it’s a cube van. Driven by teamsters. With glittery, rotating “So You Think You Can Dance” graphics, and three silver disco balls inside.

I have combed these here INTERNETS in search of a picture or a reference to it, but I have had no luck. So, I offer you instead, the next best dancing/traffic related thing, our main man, Dancing Dan. Because in @dmah‘s words:

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Truer words, Sir. Truer words.

Who loves you, #yeg? We love you. Oh yes we do. And don’t you forget it.

Have a great weekend, gang!


Seals Hand Caps Back-to-Back Losses

capitalsYikes. Tough weekend for the Edmonton Capitals. My brother Paul was there on Saturday night to take advantage of the team’s Saturday Night Movies promotion (it was “The Sandlot” this week, which I haven’t seen in forever. FORRR-EVVVVV-ERRRR).

In case you didn’t know about this, after certain Saturday night games, the Caps let spectators down on the field to watch a baseball themed movie on a giant screen. The next one is on August 1, when they’ll be showing “Mr. Destiny”. And before you judge, remember there are a finite number of baseball themed movies. I’m telling you about this late into the season, after they’ve already shown “Field of Dreams,” “A League of Their Own,” and “The Natural.” Let’s just be glad that, as of yet, “Mr.Baseball” hasn’t made the list. (more…)