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Walking down Parliament Street on Tuesday afternoon, I passed through some city housing located between Gerard and Dundas. Squat, red brick structures with no evident personality, they stared out over construction at the Lord Dufferin Public School across the way. It was an unlovely, windy moment in the city and nobody looked happy. People hurried…

Michael has given the blog over to Heidi, his Miniature Dachshund for the day ************************************* Heidi really like poker and think she pretty good at it. Always have a good mind for math. Able to crunch numbers and figure out odds just as fast as rip head off mouse! Heidi know exact chances of getting…

Nuit Blanche is a pretty big deal here in Toronto. The idea is that for 24 hours the downtown streets become arteries for all manner of performance, installation and exhibition and for one night, the city becomes a radiant pulse of art. It’s a great idea that offers all sorts of promise, and every year…

Rachelle has horrible taste in music. It’s the sort of stuff you’d imagine that a relatively unpopular 13 year-old girl living in 1994 might like. Blue Rodeo are so dreamy!! The Dixie Chicks are so smart and courageous!! Pearl Jam is so edgy!! The soundtrack to Dirty Dancing RAWKS! No matter, as I am generous…

As many of you know, I’ve been suffering some pretty serious self-esteem issues lately. The trigger for this, of course, was my failed collaboration with Ikea, who rejected my idea for marketing an easily transported and assembled line of Sniper Towers. (A very bad decision on their part that they will one day regret!!) This…

On Thursday night I stopped into The Avro, a new bar on Queen East. The place has a hipster dive feeling to it, giving off the salvaged vibe of a place where the owners might have spent a lot of money in order to make it look like they hadn’t spent any at all. It…

I was at the dentist yesterday and it did not go well. I’m anxious around dentists at the best of times, but since my abdominal surgery in August I still have some residual pain that can be greatly exacerbated when my body suddenly tenses up, like when a squirrel darts in front of me. And…

Whenever we go for walks the dog now pulls into Captain’s Treasures at the corner of Lewis and Queen East. The place bills itself as an Antique Store (“We’ve got the best booty around”) but it’s little more than a space full of a man’s mismanaged and disorganized belongings. In short, it’s the basement of…

As many of you know, I’ve been in negotiations to go into partnership with Ikea so that they might help market and distribute a new line of Sniper Towers that I have been developing. Unfortunately, Ikea has not been as responsive to the idea as I had anticipated and I was forced to take my…