My friend has just upgraded from publicizing his writing on Facebook Notes to Blogger, and his initial post will blow you away with it’s tongue-in-cheek review of everyone’s dearest automated rail - our lovely SkyTrain. Here’s a few snippets:

The Millennium Line stations can be sorted into three different categories: girly names, excessively long names, and other. The “girly name” group encompasses stations like Sapperton, Braid, Rupert and Renfrew — stations at which no self-respecting man will ever disembark the train, for fear of total emasculation (in the event that this occurs, the revoked manliness can be restored at the hyper-masculinely-named Holdom, a title which evokes images of pure, raw, ball-grabbing maleness). The most egregious of these offenders is Rupert, which in a little known coup was named in tribute to TransLink B.O.D. member David Unruh’s love of the ursine scarf aficionado.

The Canada Line is the nearest it’s been to completion in eons — aeons, even — and I intend to be the first one aboard to soak in the Richmond-bound delight when the cherry pops in 2009. Never again will I be stuck in that all too-common position of thinking “I have twenty minutes to get to Lulu Island before my sugar sculpture collapses, but no means by which to get there.”

Check it out in it’s entirety at Hearts in the Margins!

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