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While visiting Ottawa, Rachelle and I went skating on the Rideau Canal on Saturday. Due to a variety of unanticipated events, I fell 16 times in a row. Thankfully, I was very drunk so the pain was minimal, but one of the results of my falls was that I lost the left lens out of…

Chris O’Brien brought Hobo’s to my attention today. After doing a little bit of research on the Internet, I discovered this: “Hobos have been traveling the US and riding the rails since the Civil War. The romanticized image of the hobo peaked during the depression of the 1930’s, when many took to the rails in…

Anachronistic as they are, newspapers have their place. In public, people use them as shields, a protection against the vulnerability of solitary moments on buses, in bars or in waiting rooms. At the Toronto East General Hospital, people look nervous, scared even, each person buried deep within their own interior. But still, they shuffle and…

On Sunday, Mark Bourrie posted this as his Facebook Status update: “It is cold enough in Ottawa today to toss boiling water into the air and see it turn to ice fog and disappear before it hits the ground. Big hit here among the under 12 set.” I thought this very interesting. As I have…

Today I have given the Blog over to Heidi, our Miniature Dachshund ******************************* Heidi completely forgot. When Heidi 2 she wrote letter to herself that she was to read when 4 1/2. Big age for a girl dog, 4 1/2. Maybe not quite so pretty then. Should be in full swing of life by 4…

This is a list of some of the excuses people gave us for not attending our last party, which was entirely awesome. And our responses to those excuses. Jessica Angerson—“ I will just be sooooo jet lagged from my flight in from B.A. that I am sure I will be nothing but a frightful bore…

On Queen East a blind man slowly walks the street. I see him everyday. Like a specter, he slowly ticks his way back and forth, his white can sweeping the sidewalk in search of danger. He’s probably about 70 and there’s a consumptive elegance to him. Thin– like William S. Burroughs– he wears a suit…

As many of you now know, it turns out that the zodiac signs and astrological forecasts that have guided so many lives over the centuries, has been the product of flawed astronomy. For instance, if you’ve always thought you were a Capricorn, well, it might just be that you were actually a Virgo. This, obviously,…

On Friday I went to Queen West and ended up at a store called Boomer, where I was looking at some suits. Coldplay was on the speakers and two impeccably and unkindly dressed gay men stood at the cash trying to impress the handsome young Asian who worked there. “ Soujan, I’m sorry I freaked…