This. That. No Other.

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”

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 (26 September 2009)

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 [...]

Immunization Record (mouseover)
File under: Stuff My Mom Thinks I’ll Find Important, 40 Years After It Could Possibly Matter

So, what’s new, huh?
Well, the cause of the recent radio silence is that for the past two weeks I’ve been suffering from, firstly, one of the worst summer colds I can ever remember having and, secondly, following that summer cold, one of the nastiest sinus infections imaginable. It’s only looking backwards that I can really [...]

Vancouver Harbour from the Convention Centre
9:30AM, 25 July 2009
So Timber was in town this week for work and to say it was great seeing him again would be a massive understatement. Also, he got to meet Champ (and Champ him), after hearing about each other for so many years, so it was pretty terrific all-around. [...]

I Can Stop Any Time I Want, I Just Don’t Want To
(Granville Island, Vancouver, on the Occasion of My 53rd Birthday)

Yikes.

Thank Management
(Yonge & Bloor Subway Entrance, 9AM, 12 June 2009)
I’m in the last 23 hours of the 23 years I’ve spent in Toronto.
If I had a soul, I’d say the past few days have been good for it, and there are a couple of people about whom I’m specifically talking here. They know who they [...]

Packing completed at 8AM this morning, stuff-removal in progress. Only 1270 of the 3763 things which could go wrong have gone wrong so, hey, WIN.

A Move (10 June 2009)

Dear Toronto,
My (ridiculously attractive and articulate) blogbuddy Eric (sometimes known as “Sheepy”, and one of the many correspondents with whom I am criminally behind in my responses) wrote a few weeks ago:
I have no answers.  I only have questions.  Why is it wrong to cheat on someone, but fine to break up with them, when [...]

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(Intro: 12 September 1983)
Hey, did I ever tell you I was a DJ? Oh, not the glamorous kind of DJ that elicits a slavish devotion from crystal-addled partiers, the other kind of DJ: a radio DJ.
When I was coming of age in Calgary, Alberta, there was a small and [...]

So, hey, it’s International Day Against Homophobia 2009 today. IDAH’09!
I want to tell you a story about a teenager in Calgary, Alberta. A normal kid, smarter than most, bookish but enthusiastically into politics and culture in all its forms. Like most teenaged young men, he had a healthy (read: voracious) sexual appetite. He had an [...]

From Mercer’s 2009 Quality of Living Survey:
Top 5 Cities (Wordwide, Quality of Life)

Vienna, Austria (1st)
Zurich, Switzerland (2nd)
Geneva, Switzerland (3rd )
Vancouver, Canada (tied 4th)
Auckland, New Zealand (tied 4th)

Top 5 Cities (Worldwide, Infrastructure)

Singapore, Singapore (1st)
Munich, Germany (2nd)
Copenhagen, Denmark (3rd)
Tsukuba, Japan (4th)
Yokohama, Japan (5th)

Top 5 Cities (North America, Quality of Life)

Vancouver, Canada (tied [...]