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This is a collection of vignettes that I wrote for the Missed Connections section of Craig’s List, where people who hope to reconnect with somebody that they saw only briefly post about their almost-encounter. All of these compositions are located in my neighbourhood of Riverside. ****************************************** Audrey Hepburn girl in The Leslieville Cheesemarket You were…

Today the Blog has been handed over to Heidi, Rachelle and Michael’s Miniature Dachshund. ************************************************************** Once again Heidi get nothing for Valentine’s Day! Not know what going on with that! My coat shiny, my breath bad, why no other dog like me?! Must be stupid pink camouflage collar two-leggers make me wear! So 2006! Make…

It’s difficult to know what to say. Some things simply can’t be ignored. –Fiddlers and tap dancers, all dressed like it was 1988 and they worked in a Scottish themed punk bar in Montreal, tap-synched and fiddle-synched, as if in an Off-Broadway production of Lord of the Dance. –A W.O. Mitchell inspired aerial phantasm of…

The other day I took our dog for a stroll up to Old Chinatown. Along the way, on the sidewalk near the Chinese Baptist Church, I found a set of keys. This discovery was both exciting and mysterious. The keys, they could unlock anything!! A time machine. A medicine factory. A treasure chest. I felt…

The shirt I want costs $260. $260. I visit this shirt every once in awhile, holding out the slim hope that somebody in the store will screw-up and they’ll sell it to me for $26, but so far that’s yet to happen. And so, I just go in and look at the shirt. Like it…

Every community event, even one taking place in as beautiful a venue as the Wychwood Barns, has something of a Christopher Guest movie to it. Saturday was Wychwood’s annual fundraising trivia night, in which the organizers hoped to raise money for a variety of community projects. When we* walked in the space was full of…

According to Rachelle, I’ve been talking in my sleep an awful lot lately. As far as I know, I’ve never been a person who’s done that before, and this sudden emergence of “Somniloquy” is troubling. Rachelle said that when I first started to do it, she tried to wake me up, but that proved unsuccessful.…

On Tuesday, a bunch of us took advantage of the Winterlicious Festival (where high end Toronto restaurants offer a discounted Table d’Hote menu) and went down the Bymark restaurant for dinner. Located at the base of the Toronto Dominion Tower in the financial district, the Bymark is headed by celebrity chef Mark McEwan and is…

A couple of years ago Rachelle and I went to New York City for the weekend. It was only the second time I’d been to the city, and I was feeling a pretty typical combination of excitement and intimidation. We were staying at the Roosevelt Hotel at the corner of 45th and Madison, and although…