Author: Michael Murray

  • The Manx and Chez Lucien

    I love both The Manx and Chez Lucien, and on the weekend, I visited both bars. Waiting for friends at the Manx on a Friday night, I realized that the place has always had a knack for making me feel either very included, or very excluded. Sometimes, I walk in and am swept up into…

  • On driving to Ottawa

    On Thursday, Rachelle and I made the drive from Toronto to Ottawa in order to visit my family. It was an ugly March day, feeling more like the end of autumn than the start of spring. It was overcast, and all I could see in the world were subtle variations of grey. It was kind…

  • Eet ees fixed by Russian Mafia and Megan will win eet all!

    I know I not supposed to be Blog chief today, but is Goran, spin master DJ super flash and bookie master, again!! You feel the heat, bitches?! I only here today because leetle Murray bug made real dumb bet last night and no can pay Goran the cash he owe, so I get another day…

  • Ees me in middle!

    Hello peoples! Eet is Goran here, and although I am still black belt first star DJ and bookie in GTA, I must say I not feel like myself today. On St. Patrick Day I went to go to little bug’s house so to eat his dog and collect rest of gambling debt he owe to…

  • Do you need most excellet Russian DJ in the GTA?

    ????????????!! I greet to you the citizens of the web globe! Eet is Goran here, top dog bookie and DJ master flash! Until leetle four-eyed Michael bug get money he owe me for gambling debts, I own his Blob. He tell me that Google Analytics says he has over one million unique hits per day…

  • My Blob now, Pigeon peoples!

    Eet is me, Goran! I am uppermost top dog DJ bookie in all of GTA, including Etobicocke region! I dress in diamonds, baby! I have taken over leetle writer man’s Blob because he can no pay his debt to me. If don’t pay soon, I eat his dog with mustard sauce and chives. No problem!…

  • Friday Afternoon

    Standing beside me at the corner of Yonge and Bloor was actor Elijah Wood. Frodo. As I was standing there staring at him, I had no idea who he was. I thought he looked like somebody, but I wasn’t sure whom, and so I just stared. Maybe that’s what star power is, a physical charisma…

  • Would you please pass the money to me

    I was at The Food Depot on Dupont earlier in the day picking up a few items: garlic bread, Kleenex and saran wrap. For whatever reason, these are the things that I decided I needed on a Thursday afternoon. I had a lot on my mind and was kind of distracted when I was paying…

  • Prison Correspondence, Part III

    Under the umbrella of Prison Fellowship Canada, I’ve been participating in a program in which I correspond with an inmate. For the last two months, I’ve been writing to  “MotherTrucker,” who has been incarcerated for some sort of vehicular violation. In my last letter to MotherTrucker, I asked him if he had any ideas on…