My Cowboy Brother's daughter is in town ( Read more... )

i love summers... but at this time of year the streets become a hazard ( Read more... )

A Toronto-centric update.
Ed Mirvish died just 13 days short of his 93rd birthday, a day he celebrated for more than 30 years with a street party, giveaways and lots of balloons and loud music.

Kinda sad.  Sam the Record Man shop closed up.  Now Honest Ed has passed away.  Bits of Toronto's history fallen away.  The old characters are exiting the

Birthdays come but once a year
Marking time as Death draws near

RUST:
                                                                       
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Happy Summer Solstice!

Heh, firstly, I can't believe how that message board over at Azimov's is still rattling on.  Gorsh.  It's probably the best example of "Sexism and Science Fiction" around. LOL.  Like so much net it's gone down hill, despite a few interesting arguments and some attempts to get back on track.  sigh.  I find it interesting how much anger and bile is ( Read more... )

well, should i thank
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What a crazy few days we had...  I'm almost glad to get to work and relax.

The weekend started on Thursday with a trip to Toronto's islands.  We wanted to get some photos of the Luminato festival as seen from Toronto Island.  We ended up having dinner on a picnic table surrounded by Evil Looking Gulls.  Then we walked around taking photos until it ( Read more... )

There was a recent call for "Mundane SF", and somehow I got to reading "Survivor Stories" about Katrina.  There's an archive at City Pages that has just focused my attention.  It's so easy to forget this - now onward of 20 months later.  (It will be two years in Aug).  The stories on Citypages there are still though just as captivating as they were ( Read more... )

I resurrected my flickr account - mostly unused since:
1. can't be bothered too often to check it
2. was uploading photos elsewhere
3. couldn't remember which user / pass I needed for it.

number 3 got solved.

so anyways
zero's pho-toes.

i'm sure some of you got your flickrs* on so friend me (or whatever it is you do on flickr)
I won't be using it much but ( Read more... )