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As a colleague and I ascended in the elevator at lunch today, he mentioned rather casually that he didn’t like elevators. Naturally, my first instinct was to ask why. Claustrophobia? Mistrust of machines? Embarrassing erections? The answer was “no” to all three questions. The closest I got to an insight was that “people would be scared if the elevator had a glass bottom.” I wasn’t going to press the issue any further; he’s a Java developer, I’m a Flash developer, and our people don’t...Read Full Story

Between stealing government secrets and sleeping with unbelievable women, I recall when I’d have some time to spend with the weekend newspaper; just me and the weighty Saturday Star or, if I’d forgotten to pick one up, a yucky morning yarn with Christie Blatchford and the Sun. It didn’t matter that much either way because I was young, licensed to kill, and coffee was always the first thing on the table at the local breakfast nook. Recently it’s gotten real bad. Where I used to have a chance...Read Full Story

Basking in the summer sun and hosting merry, undulating rivulets of sweat betwixt my rosy ass cheeks, I often found myself thinking of the future. The imagined timeline floated in the haze of somewhere around mid-January. Yes. Chilled drinks did factor into that vision, as did various activities combining snow and nudity. Despite this, my pragmatism allowed me to recognize that winter would also suck in many ways. I knew that, for example, snow would feel great on my ruddy bits for only a few...Read Full Story

The more I walk through downtown Toronto, the more I’m convinced that the city is really going downhill. Let me explain using of an illustration. For this you need to think B-I-G. First envision a fat person, I mean really big; the kind of extended circumference for which the words “morbidly obese” barely scratch the surface; the kind of rotund that results in, basically, a giant ball with tiny projections that were once the appendages. This person would have fashioned for them a sturdy steel...Read Full Story

View from Street I got a roofing quote - $17.50 Yes, that is the whole house ... Kitchen Party? The Backyard/Laneway the DeckRead Full Story

Kensington Market - a feast for the tastebudsRead Full Story

Nuit Blanche – Toronto stays up all night Last Saturday the city of Toronto stayed up all night with the sole purpose of celebrating art. Nuit Blanche, ‘a free, all-night contemporary art thing’, is a festival that originated in Paris...Read Full Story