Sunday was a pretty lovely day in Toronto. My family was in town for Easter and we all took a slow stroll down Bloor street in the afternoon. I was positioned outside of Banana Republic with the dog, people watching, when I noticed Corner Gas star Brent Butt coming out of the store. He was wearing a blue Maple Leaf’s ball cap, and he looked just as ordinary as you’d expect him to look. It’s funny, but in the context of the unnaturally tanned, designer label wrapped people shopping in Yorkville, he looked less like a celebrity than just about anybody else on the street. I mean, he could have been working one of the hot dog carts.
Up on Cumberland, I saw Kenny Hotz, the sadistic and incorrigible star of Kenny Vs. Spenny. Unlike Brent Butt, he looked like he belonged, and as always, he had the smug look of somebody who had just been laid on his face.
We then stopped in at Whole Foods in order to pick-up a sandwich. While I waited at the counter, one of the employees shouted out “Jade Cloud!” Somewhat embarrassingly, this was the name of the tea I had just ordered, and I shouted back at her “That’s me!” A woman stood beside me, fiddling with the lid for her coffee. As I am charming and friendly and not at all creepy, I said to her, “That’s what all my friends call me.” She gave me a blank look, “what?” she asked. “Jade Cloud. That’s what all my friend’s call me,” I said. She nodded, “how very nice for you, ” and then walked away, sarcastic, entirely uninterested in my babbling.