You know, Mississaugua usually gets a pretty bad rap, but… Actually, there is no “but”. Its bad rap is pretty-much deserved, awesome-boyfriend-being-from-there notwithstanding. Nice sunsets, though.

“I’ve been in this business 27 years in the public eye here. I don’t go around anywhere hitting on men, and by God, if I did, I wouldn’t do it in Boise, Idaho! Jiminy!”
– Idaho Republican Senator and Gay Rights Foe Larry Craig, taking god’s advice that Boise, Idaho is crappy cruising territory.
Full (and fascinating) [...]

So here’s the bed I covet:

It’s from Room & Board and it costs $899. Room & Board will be so kind as to ship it to me, too. For $1350. Yes, for 150% of the cost of the bed itself.
I have options, though. I can have it shipped to Buffalo or Niagara Falls, NY, for [...]

New York City, now located on the shore of Canada’s Hudson Bay:

(courtesy webmasteraccess.com)

Ten years ago you had many choices for your evening of downtown Toronto cinema-chain entertainment. Since then, the Sheraton Cinemas closed, the Hudson’s Bay Centre Cinemas closed, the Eaton Centre Cinemas closed (or got stabbed to death) and, saddest of all, the Uptown closed, with its trio of screens for mass-market blockbuster films with ear-splitting [...]

Ben Cohen:

I want to make a couple of things perfectly clear: One, I do not know anything about English rugby star Ben Cohen other than that he is, name notwithstanding, not Jewish (drat) and, Two, he is one of the most awesome specimens of manhood on this planet. His inclusion in this series is [...]

O, Hippie Girl
With your thrice-owned bicycle
You are Earth-Consciousness personified
With your carefree attitude
You are Free-Spiritedness incarnate
With your fearless approach
You are Self-Determination itself
O, Hippie Girl
From your unhelmeted head
Your raven or copper or sun-splashed tresses fly
Unencumbered by protection or common sense
Which tethers us mere mortals to reality
O, Hippie Girl
As you cross the busy thoroughfares
From sidewalk to sidewalk
Pedestrians part [...]

Long-time readers may recall last year’s entry for the Church Street Fetish Fair, in which I reneged on photos of that event’s community participants, feeling they’d entered into Nan Goldin territory and further felt gripped by a rare charity. Hah! Not so, this year…
How many goddamned times have I asked this question?
So The Toronto Star [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQlpFrm5iM

My god. I mean, if I believed in one. Thanks to Chas for the link. My god.

“Vlad”:

From Russia With Love