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Recently, one of my hobbies has been reading the stars. I would now like to share with you my astrological forecasts for all the signs for the upcoming week. Aries March 21-April 19 Dear goat, you can’t allow your stubborn streak to get the best of you this month. You must be gentle and receptive,…

Restless men roam the streets of this neighbourhood. Evasive and distrustful, they avoid eye contact, as if they don’t want you to remember their faces. Sometimes they’ll pause for an hour or so in the Laundromat, taking the warmth before continuing on in their journeys. On Wednesday, one such man was leaving the Laundromat just…

A friend of mine recently sent me an application to appear on the show Fearless in the Kitchen with Christine Cushing. I figured they were looking for charismatic and charming people, such as myself, to learn dangerous knife tricks in glamorous kitchens across the city, but no, that is not what the show is looking…

On Friday Rachelle and I got our monthly Hydro bill. This was a very unpleasant experience. Clearly, we’re using far too much electricity and must take some cost cutting measures so that I’m not overcome with waves of intense and debilitating nausea every time we get our monthly bill. 1. Our apartment has very few…

Last Friday we had a little party to help celebrate a friend’s birthday. One of the results of this is that we now have a bunch of balloons in the apartment. Like some alien tribe of jellyfish, they’re clustered together in the living room, as if feeding off of some nutrient on the ceiling. When…

Today the Blog has been given over to Heidi, Rachelle and Michael’s Miniature Daschund *************************************** Very confusing time for Heidi with all late night talk show controversy. No know what to think. Red Conan good dog who could run with Heidi pack any time. He make funny wag tail bark out loud joke! And Andy…

Over the course of his life, Pat Robertson has said an awful lot of things that have been very hurtful to people. One of the primary leaders of the Christian right, he’s taken mighty swings at all the usual suspects, including homosexuality, feminism, abortion, pornography and liberal professors. He advocates something called Christian Dominionism—that society…

Sunday was a beautifully grey spring day that was placed right in the middle of January. An old man in a Toronto Maple Leafs toque picks up a burning cigarette from Queen Street and places it in his mouth. Blinking his eyes, he crosses the sidewalk into Jimmy Simpson Park. His eyes trained on the…

As many of you know, I skipped grade three. I’ve been blessed in my life with an unusually large intellect, one that helped me achieve acceptance from one of the six universities I applied to, and to score a 103 in the CBC Test The Nation IQ test. I’m pretty smart, and everybody knows it.…