People can wear their East Van pride with one of these t-shirts created by Alex Usow. Its design was based on a series of t-shirts that started with an original "John & Paul & Ringo & George" design.

Bike corrals are used in Portland, Montreal, Ottawa, Seattle, and other major cities throughout the world - and now we have our first one in Vancouver.

Embracing the pre-teen boy experience has been pretty hilarious, if you look at them the right way. Don't see the "obnoxious" aspect. Try "mischievious" and "playful" and "full of energy." Think of wild kingdom and picture the younger, smaller, way more hyper version of the larger animal. Pre-teen chimpanzees or tigers.

Other people did it too. It seemed okay. Maybe the parking bylaw wasn't really enforced, and no one really minded. Until yesterday.