I heard recently that those two entwined rings at English Bay (my version of a cheap prize in the bottom of a box of CrackerJacks) are finally coming down and are to be installed at the Port of San Diego. Bon Voyage! It took months to install these cheesy trinkets. Good luck to the Americans. Divorce never looked so good.
And might I suggest we Vancouverites awaken to the fact that that we are not Eskimos and that the much slavered over Innukshuk doesn't really have a place there at the bay either.
With Captain Vancouver's 215th anniversary of his discoveries coming up this June why not commission the striking of a proper statue there at that Two Ringed Circus site of the visionary man who was reviled in his home country until his early death? And where the slab of stones is now, why not erect a statue of Chief Khatsalano who was unceremoniously evicted from his home at Stanley Park, peering stoically across the inlet at his namesake community? Real figures of history sharing the same beach and different visions where they probably met each other on occasion and shared a few laughs.
Besides, wouldn't such an artistic initiative help in the process of distracting tourists as we go about sweeping away our homeless and hoisting hordes of colourful banners tilting in the wind at the downtown eastside?
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