The Gumboot is Under Construction

Good day, community-minded readers of The Weekly Gumboot. Over the next few days/weeks, your favourite blog will be undergoing some changes so that, forever more, we can provide some sexier and more cutting edge service to you, the people. We're making this happen with a two-fold strategy. First, our Correspondents will be attending a two week long "community twitblogging for the interscape" and team-building retreat in Prince Rupert; they will return better than ever and with a thirst for community-building. Second, we're making The Gumboot prettier from the back-end (not sure exactly what what means, but the guy we "hired" won't stop talking about it).

Keep your eyes open for our new direction. And thanks, as always, for your support, comments and, most importantly, the memories.

Stay classy. And keep reaching for those rainbows.

Your pal always,

John Horn
Editor-in-Chief

Recipe for an AKON Concert

• 1 undersold GM Place
• 15 qued lines of angry AKON fans forced to exchange tickets for new seats to offset the undersold concert
• 1000 really, really short skirts
• a large handful of people from every ethnic community in Vancouver/Lower Mainland
• 2 three ton giant banana shaped speakers capable of thumping so hard your clothes feel the breeze
• a shitload of other smaller speakers
• a large pinch of super drunk and tatted out "gangstars"
• a sprinkle of the VPD's finest
• 20 cups of young men wearing funny baseball caps askew
• 1 guy wearing a pink skirt and a mohawk
• 1 AKON
• 1 Karlwolf (never heard of him before, but you learn something new everyday)
• 1 Danny Fernandez
• 2 backup dancers from the "hood"
• 1 random Surrey rapper who does a lot of pacing on the small stage
• a generous mix of hummer and SUV limousines
• a generous serving of concerned parents watching suspiciously as their teenage daughters scream they want to be a "private dancer" for AKON
• 10 cups of boy-band-esque dance moves
• 1000 bright lights
• a bakers dozen angry after-concert fights
• 1 code word that's guaranteed to "take things to the next level with your woman"

Mix all ingredients and you have yourself an AKON concert.