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Our Virtual Pet Is Sick

August 16th, 2011 by Randy 0

Today, we learned that Milo, the sea otter in the otter exhibit in the Vancouver Aquarium in Stanley Park whom we here at Mint faithfully check in on several times a day thanks to the aquarium’s webcam (here: http://www.vanaqua.org/ottercam/), has lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system’s lymphatic cells that is the seventh or so most common cancer in humans.

According to the aquarium note, lymphoma in sea otters is very rare, and Milo will be kept outside of public viewing…

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Mint Records History: The Ghosts

August 14th, 2011 by Randy 0

There were three times when ghosts were thought to have visited us in the Dominion Building. Interestingly, all three occurred relatively recently, while we were occupying the top floor of the building, aka “the penthouse” and also the site of The Pack a.d.’s notorious signing party.

Most recently, Shena, coxswain of HMCS Mint Records, came to the Mint HQ after office hours to prepare for a yoga session in the building next door to the Red Gate and JC/DC Studio

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Mint Records History: Room 606

August 7th, 2011 by Randy 0

Room 606, Dominion Building: our first office

After a while in the back room at my dad’s travel agency, we got the itch to move to our own office. It just seemed to make sense; we had been steadily taking over a closet at the travel agency, and the things we needed were multiplying. Parking also was an expensive pain; towings occurred from the alleys and loading zones, which were annoying (though, truthfully, well deserved).

Bill had…

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The Woodwards Implosion

July 25th, 2011 by Randy 0

It was almost five years ago that 3/4 of the Woodwards Department Store lot was demolished in a huge, orchestrated series of explosions.

Bill, his son, and I came downtown at 4:30 am on the morning of the implosion, and went to “work” at our office in the Dominion Building — the first year of our tenancy as top-floor occupants. In reality, we were there to record the closest building demolition we would probably ever witness.

Bill set up his camera on a…

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Frannies RIP

July 22nd, 2011 by Randy 0

March 31 was the last day of business for arguably the best little sandwich place around. Frannie’s Gourmet Deli made amazing, cheap food for  25 years, I believe, all created by the same duo that had been there from the beginning, Helen and Kee.

I remember going into Frannie’s at the end of February, for my semi-usual early-morning breakfast fix, along with two or three other regulars, plus a steady stream of construction workers (yes, they were still around, building the…

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