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Small Moments of Ecstasy

There’s a moment, on the dancefloor, when everything falls into place — the lights, the sound, the beat, the vibe, the crowd, the lyrics, the energy, the… intangible tribal quality of moving your body in time with the universe — where you consciously toy (for a microsecond) with the idea that if that moment of [...]

Machines of Loving Grace

The title of this post is cheerfully ripped off from the Richard Brautigan poem “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” — a typically-whimsical, typically-Brautigan meditation on a future devoid of labour and filled with connectedness, via technology, to all of the natural world — but it’s really just the title I’m stealing.

I want [...]

The End

I’ve been uncluttering my life lately, tossing stuff into piles labeled “Need”, “Want” and “Discard” — alternately: “Love”, “Like” and “Lose” — and nothing escapes scrutiny.

Nothing.

Including This. That. No Other.

A lot has happened since my last posts and I suppose an apology is in order for the broken promises to update here. I’m sorry. Stuff [...]

Two Months Off

Pretty quiet around here, huh?

That’ll change. The past two months have been introspective, busy, fun, scary, sexy, stressy, wonderful and, ultimately, totally necessary.

See you early in 2010. Promise.

Underworld, “Two Months Off”

Terrorizing Y’All’s Neighbourhood

So we went to Thrill the World Vancouver 2009 at Yaletown’s Roundhouse this evening:

And scariest of all…

Parting Shot (YYZ)

I’ve never been fond of Toronto’s Pearson International Airport. It’s cold, bereft of useful traveler connection-time-wasters and, for airlines, one of the most expensive airports in the world to set up shop. (Although, for the record, landing fees and terminal charges have been reduced from stratospheric levels). It’s always a giggle to pass through YYZ, [...]

Have I Mentioned How Much I Love Sarah Silverman? Because I Totally Do. Love Sarah Silverman, I Mean.

After witnessing dozens of people wiping handkerchiefs, staggeringly cheesy dimestore trinkets and, I do believe, their panties on The Stone of Unction in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, I can’t help but totally love the latest from the Hebrew Badgirl:

Video: Sarah Silverman, “Sell the Vatican, Feed the World”

Green on Thursday #94: Dropping the Soap

Oh, bygone eras of sublimated male eroticism! Before there was Xtube there was newsgroup photo-sharing and before those there were dirty videos (βeta!) and magazines. And before those there were International Male catalogs and “fitness” magazines and before those there were the swimsuit and underwear sections of Sears and Eaton’s catalogs.

And before those there were [...]

Dreaming

I should totally be packing for our trip while waiting for the next round of tests to come down the pipe from Toronto but find my mind wandering south, not east or even Middle East. Hunh.

Dreaming (30 September 2009)

Soup Vampire

Soup Vampire (26 September 2009)

That Other Birthday

Oh, hey. I turned “30″ this week.

Three days ago, to be exact, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention it (at least in passing). We all mark significant milestones in our lives, and 22 September 1979 was one of the most critical in my development. Not unlike a majority of gay men of my [...]

Green on Thursday #93: Ben, the Two of Us Need Look No More

Rugby star — and TTNO fan-fave — Ben Cohen strips for Attitude mag and says this about his physique:

I don’t think I’ve got a good body. And that’s not cause I want you to say I have. I don’t look in the mirror and go: ‘Fucking hell Benny, good body.’ I look at it and [...]

“And I’m Not Being Sarcastic (Not At All)”

Brilliant work from Funny or Die:

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

Courtesy Sheepy.

Friending

What a great week. Got a shitload of work done, kicked cardio ass at the gym and, best of all, met up with and hung out with MikeP, one of my oldest and dearest friends (and, if memory serves, the first person to whom I came out), here in YVR on business. I can’t wait [...]

I Wanna Be Trash

You have no. Idea.

Video: The Whip, “Trash”

Thanx to MikeP…