Smells Like Yukon Flog

It is with little sadness that I inform our fans that we have severed our ties with the Subvert Smells Like Yukon Alternative Gameswear Where Gallery.

In case you’ve forgotten, this was a Smells Like Yukon-sponsored Flickr goup intended to “showcase arresting images that reflect our hopes and dreams about all the things that Canada Games volunteers might accomplish while wearing gaudy orange fabric.” Apparently, this now makes the sole remaining do-nothing group member, Geof Harries, the gallery’s new administrator by default. We wish him all the best.

“But why?” you’re no doubt crying aloud.

Given the disparity in submissions, we were finally forced to tip our hats to the Ladakhian ringers and concede that the City of Whitehorse’s dumb idea was slightly brighter than our dumb idea. However, I’d also have to observe that the recent photo of Kenyan village people decked out in Canada Winter Games jackets suggests that, towards the end, the City’s idea was getting dumber at a faster rate than ours was.

I believe there’s further vindication in the fact that the CoW is no longer featuring the original Gameswear Where? Gallery prominently on its homepage. Nope, it’s now buried in the submenu under City Council, where it will surely die—unlike, say, the property tax increases. Smells Like Yukon, on the other hand, continued to flaunt our failure in plain site, where no one bothered to look, until the bitter end.

Whatever we do, let’s try not to point fingers in anger. It’s a dark place none of us wants to go. We’ll all be better off to just ignore the possibility that the CoW’s powers of taxation and garbage removal may have been used coercively to solicit photo submissions from a citizenry fearful of bankruptcy and smelly kitchens. As much as we’d like to, Smells Like Yukon simply cannot compete with that.

We prefer to focus on the positive now, such as the promising Dog Gone Yukon Coat of Arms project. And once we’re done with that, we’ll probably take a figurative blowtorch (is there a tool for that in Photoshop?) to the sternwheeler on the City of Whitehorse’s logo.

Why?

To even the score, of course.

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