I don't recall it ever snowing in Vancouver past February before and now it has snowed a couple times this past month.

What's even more bizarre is that it's been damn freakishly cold all Spring. We've only had two mildly warm days so far, with plenty of hail and thunderstorms inbetween, which most residents of the lower mainland will tell you are rare here.

The usual progress for Vancouver is a warm-to-hot April, followed by a rainy May and June, during which everyone complains about when our Summer will start, forgetting the warm days before. This year, they'd be right. I'd be hard-pressed to even call this Spring.

I've had an opinion about this topic for awhile, but just what the hell went wrong with the Punk scene?

Sometime around '92 or so, I went to a party where a DJ-wannabe introduced me to the sounds of Green Day. I think my comments were along the lines of "Not bad for a garage band" and his response was akin to "Garage band? They're punk". I definitely recall laughing and more than a little scoffing. I don't care what scene Green Day grew up in, it wasn't punk to me then and it's even less punk to me now.

The Sex Pistols are punk. Dead Kennedys are punk. Black Flag is punk. WTF Good Charlotte? Emo.

Emo Punk? Fuck off, that's a contradiction in terms. Pop Punk? That's just proof that punk is dead.