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Yesterday, I went down to a butcher in Leslieville to buy some sausages for dinner. It was probably around 6:00, and although it was dark and rainy, it was mild out, which seemed to give the evening a hazy, street-lit softness. At this point in day the neighbourhood takes on a different texture. Some of…

  Heidi, our Miniature Dachshund, relates her dreams: ************************************* I play fetch with four-eye two-leg food giver, and as I chase ball it turn into hot dog and I eat it. Good fetch!! My legs grow long and I get tall tall tall and I stomp city. In dream I falling and falling in air…

For a variety of reasons, I have a large network of friends on Facebook, including some people that I’ve never actually met in person, and others I haven’t seen in years. Still, although we don’t always communicate directly, I feel like I know them all. Over time, through my random encounters with their status updates,…

Heidi (our Minature Dachschund) and I were walking through the school the other day when we came upon a kindly old man and a little dog named Dodger. I took Heidi off the leash, and let her run around with Dodger for a bit, but she lost interest after about two minutes, and so I…

  I’ve always had a way with birds, pigeons in particular. Whenever Rachelle sees me on video, she says that the nervous way I twitch my head and jerk my body around reminds her of a pigeon, and wonders if I might have been one in a previous life. Maybe, I don’t know. However, it…

  Well, Mr. Peanut is still missing. If we had any inkling of the darkness that lurks inside of Jillian, we never would have consented to let her incorporate him into her Halloween costume. She took our precious taxidermied squirrel, and has held him captive in her home for two weeks now, claiming that Mr.…

On Queen Street East, you see a lot of old men on bicycles. With the handlebars turned inside out, a man with a big, bushy biker beard wobbles down the street with a mysterious, half-full garbage bag slung over his shoulder. At the lights, he stops, picks something up off the street, stuffs it in…

As many of you know, Mr. Peanut, the taxidermied squirrel that I gave to Rachelle as a gift, has been missing since Halloween. We had VERY generously lent Mr. Peanut to our “friend” Jillian, so that she might incorporate him into her lame-o costume. Two days later, we heard from Jillian, telling us that Mr.…

Last weekend, Rachelle and I went to see the movie Paranormal Activity. Filmed on a budget of $15, 000 with a hand-held video camera, the film’s turned out to be an unqualified commercial hit. Presented in documentary style, a la Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity focuses on a young couple that are haunted by a…