Morning, Portlanders. I present, for your Thursday waking-up feature, a Vancouver documentary by wheelchair-bound director Murray Siple, about homeless men running the gauntlet in shopping carts. Siple used to make snowboarding movies, but his paralysis put a stop to all that. And then, he started hanging around with a bunch of homeless dudes, and felt the old itch for adventure. I watched the whole thing last night and was gripped from about six minutes in. Enjoy…
Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010. More by Matt Davis

Excellent!
That was fucking amazing.