2008 Olympics: Hits and Misses

The Vancouver Queer Film Festival is now officially over. The final screening (XXY) was one of the most brilliant movies I’ve seen in the last five years. Get your hands on a copy and watch it.

The
end of the VQFF also marked the end of the 2008 Olympics.
Congratulations to all of my homofication candidates. You will surely
haunt my dreams for months to come. And to all the Canadian Olympians:
thanks for putting on a wicki-wicked show.

Here’s some of the best of the worst of the best photos from the Games. If you’d like to see more, click here.

And
this last shot in the spirit of Saturday’s Raunchorama – which almost
made me puke a record four (4) times during its 1.5 hour course.

 

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