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Earlier in the week I was at the Toronto East General Hospital having a bunch of pre-operative tests in preparation for a rather complicated hernia surgery. And so, for most of the day I sat in a waiting room with a collection of people who were also going through their prescribed battery of tests. There…

Today I have given the Blog over to Heidi, our 3 year-old Miniature Dachshund. ************************************** Had weird dream last night. In boat eating cheese and then bad, bad weather come and begin to rain and Heidi get wet! Hate being wet!! And then no cheese, cheese I eating just vanish! Horrible, horrible dream!! Guess a…

On Saturday, I went to see the Pop Life exhibit at the National Art Gallery in Ottawa. It’s fun and zippy, like some arty reinterpretation of an amusement park fun house. The work is instantly familiar, even iconic, and walking through it was a nostalgic stroll through memory lane, kind of like flipping through somebody’s…

I’m pretty anxious around dentists. The idea of scraping, pulling or poking at teeth just freaks me out, the way that some people go squirrely around insects, and so I tend to keep my visits to a minimum. What this means is that I’m negligent in my oral care, and whenever I go to the…

Although I’m very optimistic that the new fortune telling business I’ve set up in the local Laundromat is going to blossom, it has been a kind of rocky start. As such, I’ve decided to diversify my business interests and am starting up an Animal Ghost Tour in the Riverside District of Toronto where I live.…

Earlier in the day I came across an old Ellis Valentine baseball card. For a brief period of time, he was my very favourite player. In the late 70’s, along with Warren Cromartie and Andre Dawson, Valentine was going to usher in a golden age of Montreal Expos baseball. The three of them were expected…

As I am presently suffering with extraordinary, the kind-of-thing-you-could-only-find-in-outer-space sinus pain, I have decided to simply reprint something I wrote for Guerilla Magazine a few years ago about going on Lava Life. Looking for Lava Love-on a budget Michael Murray, Gureilla – Ottawa Culture at Ground Level After desiring a relationship with writer Michael Murray…

On the weekend Rachelle and I went up to Planet Ikea in Scarborough. While there I fell into conversation with one of the cashiers, asking her how her weekend had been going. It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon, and I guess it really doesn’t take very much imagination to realize it was a stupid question…

As it’s been another hot one here in Toronto, I once again decided to take advantage of the AC in my local Laundromat on Queen East and set up my Fortune Telling stall. Shortly after setting up my table, a young girl came in off the street and asked me if I could read her…