15
Feb
Shredding in the Rain..juuust Shredding in the Rain…

Namaste and Salaam! Bonjour,Sussreekall,Hola,Merhaba, and Highest Love to Nodar and the Kumaritashvili Family, and to the Georgian teams+coaches+countrymen.
Words can not express how devistating a tragedy it is. We chant and pray and send you healing.
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As for the rest of you,
My Friends, Hello! I am sending you all total positive mental energy+happiness. I wish I could send you money. LOL! For The Year of The Tiger Chinese New Year. The fact that the NewYear and Valentine’s fell on the same day is supposed to be extremely auspicious!!! Yaaaay! Hare Om, Baby! Hare Om!
I we could send the refunded-ticket holders (snowboarding/Olympics) money. The UNUSUALLY MILD-WARMEST EVER!-weather had basicallyt washed away the spectator standing-room-only stands.
Total bummer.
But honestly you can’t BLAME THE OLYMPICS GROWNUPS for the WEATHER?????
And that is what a lot of people are doing. They are BLAMING VANCOUVER, essentially. Saying WE”should haver expected to get rain” because it “rains here all the time”, etc.etc. And how we “should have planned for rain”. And people are MAD!
Wow.
Really?
Seriously? Its our fault? (The photo I’ve included at top is actually VANCOUVER THIRTEEN MONTHS AGO which was the absolute opposite “freak weather” taken from a dogwalk on SpanishBanks.)
Blame “Global Warming”. In other words: blame ya seff-Haters!!! LOL!
YOU CAN’T CONTROL THE WEATHER.
Well….I feel so sad about that. I don’t want Vancouver to be blamed for anything at all. I love this fucking place. Everyone should.
Despite its flaws+shortcomings+hiccups.
But the weather isn’t one of them. The weather is just the weather.
Volcanos don’t keep people from Hawaii.
Forest fires won’t keep us from California.
Monsoon won’t keep us out of India.
Fear-of-carbomb won’t keep you from the MiddleEast. C’mon! Its a fucking RAINFOREST!!!
Vancouver’s awesome, People!!!!! C’MON!!!!
I’m not planning to run around yappin about The Olympics for two weeks, but I am very humbled ALWAYS by athletes-n-those-who-give-their-BEST. I’m NOT going to drone on about the classism and ome of the other social-symptoms of a babycity enmeshed in World-Class-Events.
I just HAD to say something, in defense of the rain…in defense of my town.
Vancouver fucking rules. That’s all. LOL!
Now, I’m off to find Matisyahu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!!*screams like a girlygirl*
I hope he plays “Unique is My Dove” (from his Youth album). I would melt.
This is a video example in case you are not familiar (though I can’t imagine).
Enjoy!!!
I hope everyone has a fantastic week! Remember to be thankful for all the activity in case it helps us become more unified as a community. (Crosses fingers). You never know: it could really trigger+motivate positive change implementation, once the
tourists have left. Think positive!!! I will!!!
And I will be sending that positivity to you all. Every minute. From the heart. Word. :)
Om Nama Shivaya.
Sai Ram.
Love,
Biffy
Xo




February 15th, 2010 at 5:47 PM
i love this blog and video .. just what the biffy ordered! ^_^ love and tons of hugs grrl.
February 15th, 2010 at 8:49 PM
The year they had the Winter Olympics in THE ALPS they had weather issues.. and it was the FREAKING ALPS!
Some people just need to find things to kvetch about to make their lives seem better rather than trying to improve their lives.
February 16th, 2010 at 10:09 AM
It is unusually warm for this time of the year. It’s not our fault!! I also love Vancouver although I live in Abbotsford.. Vancity is just a short drive away. I visit all the time!
Man even January was crazy warm eh? It felt like autumn.
I think it’s silly people are blaming Vancouverites for the oddly warm weather. Sometimes, shit happens. That’s nature, and honestly, we humans haven’t been too nice to nature.
February 16th, 2010 at 2:54 PM
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This post was mentioned on Twitter by WalkerBigTalker: Biffy tells it like it is. Weather-haters be damned. She says it so much better than I ever could. http://shrinkify.com/1rjd…
February 16th, 2010 at 3:52 PM
Hey, I’ve not seen much of the olympics on tv yet, I saw on the news there have been riots though…. crazy. I just hope Britain can cope with the summer olympics in 2012! I just don’t know what thats going to be like?!?
As for people complaining about the weather, people will complain about anything (well thats the conclusion i’ve come to!)
I’m loving the Matisyahu by the way!!
Sending you good vibes Biffy x x
February 17th, 2010 at 6:06 AM
I hope Matisyahu ROCKED. Lucky enough to see him “come up,” and saw an amazing double bill with Flobots a few years back. Awesome show!
February 18th, 2010 at 1:49 AM
Maybe the rain will keep it a very long time b/4 the Olympics ever set up base in Vancouver. Too much needs to be done to allow 4 anything tragic to happen. But, tragidies happen in Vancouver. So, I wish all the athletes the best of luck, and I’ll do what I can to “think” positivity to the mainland. But I can’t say that I’ll be able to wish the rain away! Namaste…