The Vancouver Beetle: that thing again
Link from Beyond Robson [br].
I feel giddy this morning thanks to an article/post from Only magazine [om] taking issue with the tourist attraction that is the blue Beetle that is covered in crap. The first time I saw it it was kind of amusing in the way a YouTube video of a dog skateboarding is amusing, but once I realized that it’s always downtown and it’s always a three ring circus I started to get annoyed.
So who finds it magical? I refer you to Only who note that it’s tourists in “the blissful state of a holiday who don’t know any better, and are starved for something even remotely interesting.”
There’s a similar car usually parked around 15th and Willow. Just this morning my bf remarked, "I wonder how they brush the snow off that thing." I’d hardly call it ‘magical’ – it’s ‘a curiosity’ at best… and only the first time around.