2010 Olympic Postcards ~ Icehole’s Golden Ownapodium Week!
by paulkamon on March 2, 2010
The city was awash in nationalism as long repressed flag waving urges exploded and poured onto the streets of Vancouver like some giant billion dollar champagne beer bottle spraying out thousands of rabid superfans yesterday; the symbolic final battle (a.k.a. Greatest NHL script ever imagined) against our fellow continental bully brothers in a dramatic game of ice hockey swiftly sabrered off the lid of our bottled up conservative nature and unleashed terrific pandemonium, thus revealing ourselves in full patriotic bloom as a nation proud, strong and free, and quite capable of consuming more beer in 17 days than any other winter loving people. Wow, what a party that was. Go Canadian Iceholes, eh! ~ PK
EDITOR’S NOTE: A HUGE thank you to all the service people and volunteers who manned the front lines of this most epic party, including all the police from around the country who kept us safe during this most memorable experience.
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Olympic buses parked on Cambie Street bridge during the closing ceremonies
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False Creek at night
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Oh Canada! The crowd swells in downtown Vancouver after the gold medal hockey game (Image by: Michael Schratter)
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Hockey is Canada’s game (Image by: Lauren Mote)
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Luooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (Image by: Michael Schratter)
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When the city was running low on beer, The Refinery was selling Wildcat cans, 3 for $15. (Image by: Lauren Mote)
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Team Canada revelers show off they hefty bill after spraying a case worth of champagne out the windows of The Refinery
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Lesley Stowe of Raincoast Crisps poses with the Canadian Ski Jumping team whom she generously sponsored
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Golden girl, Ashleigh McIvor, Canadian gold medalist in skicross poses with her boyfriend and fellow skicross athlete, Chris Del Bosco, at the JestSet Crew’s Olympic party at Canvas Lounge in Gastown (Image by: Michael Schratter)
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Closing ceremony performers, Frank Worsley, Justine Diersch (left) and Lauren O’Neill White pose before heading down for their performers’ wrap party at the Fortune Sound Club
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Closing ceremony hockey guys
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Joeys Restaurant on Burrard was transformed into a Ruskie mecca. Cross country sprint gold medalist Nikita Kriukov (in blue) partied hard with team mates cross country team sprint bronze medalists skiers Alexey Petukhov and Nikolay Morilov (left), and cross country sprint silver medalist Alexander Panzhinskiy on Thursday night (Image by: Michael Schratter)
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The drunkest chicken I have ever met
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The thickest beer goggles will not help these two hairy fat chicks
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Crosby for Prime Minister
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Reality is a bitch wearing patent leather boots
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The world needs more Canada. What does that mean exactly?
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Granville Street fandamonium
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Maker’s Mark brand ambassador Ron Oliver and his lovely wife show their colours with Pourhouse chef, Chris Irving
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More good looking Canadians showing their pride at the Pourhouse
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Olympic bubble bath
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Overheard 2 blocks from the extinguished Olympic flame, loud chants of “Canada! Canada!” and when a joint was lit, their cheer was “Cannabis! Cannabis!”
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Final drink of the night, whiskey at the Keefer Bar
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Yes, what a storybook ending.
And not to be a downer, but this piece just aired on a popular u.s. news blog takes a different angle: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/2/in_the_shadow_of_the_olympic
Join the DTES thread to discuss the future of eating and drinking in this developing area.