After two-and-a-half years (find out why), it's back! Lotusland 15 bounds onto the Internet with more sulky Olympics bashing, general whining, and danceable musical numbers. It's just a few days before the 2010 Winter Olympics begin in Vancouver, and there's still no snow! The Winter Games are sweeping into town, leaving a massive pile of debris consisting mainly of the city and its civil rights. Sound like fun? Oh, you betcha! Strap yourself in...

It's the end of summer, and your podcast pals Doc and Sue wrap it up with a review of all the fun that happened during Vancouver's (semi) sunny season.That includes murders and fights, police shootings, sun all week but not on the weekend, and the giant trench going up Cambie Street. Tons of little items: we're the most liveable city in the world again; (possibly as a consequence) we also have the sixth most overpriced real estate in the world. AND the world's largest ball of tape! All this and much more. Come on in. Just stay out of the refrigerator. You'll spoil your dinner.

We swore we’d get a podcast up for July, and WE DID IT! With two hours to spare (Pacific Time)! In this Lotusland, Doc and Sue continue the saga of Vancouver, with a look at Simon Fraser, whose name is borne by the river that flows through the city and its environs; the tale of the Dunsmuirs, who invented the dysfunctional family way back in the nineteenth century; a look at Shaugnessy, one of the city’s first posh areas; our 2010 Winter Olympic news; and this month’s musical treat from 80’s Vancouver artists Strange Advance. Plus the usual string of non-sequiturs from our crack team of non-sequituries.

To delight and baffle you once again, it’s Lotusland 8! Doc and Sue dig into the history of Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighborhood from its beginnings as a campsite for the locals (and one amusing squatter), to its 60s incarnation as a hippie enclave, man, and its present-day form as an infestation of yuppies. As part of our 2010 Olympics coverage, we investigate how they get the Olympic flame from place to place, and finally we cross Capilano Canyon on a wobbly suspension bridge (bring your Gravol©). Also, a small series of almost unexplainable comedy bits that really don’t have anything to do with the show.