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I can’t comment much on the City Centre here, it’s a bit of an ugly complex out in Ottawa down the street from Xtina’s place. Man, that girl lives in a dump.
Puppy alert! I’m in Ottawa so bask in archive cuteness.
What the? Kingsway park has a shite backdrop; who put that apartment there? I think Glenda told me her ex boyfriend sold/bought drugs from someone here once, but the park isn’t even as big as my living room, so maybe I’d have a better chance of scoring down there…
Apartments offer affordable social housing, but at what price? In a way they’re more communal than the pop-up townhouse neighbourhoods you see growing out of your major urban areas, but they lack community. You don’t know the people who live at all 4 sides of you any more than I know the guy down the […]
I don’t understand why it’s called the Black Creek, it’s more of a viaduct or sewer channel now. Calling it a creek when it’s concrete reinforced and the basin for all the sludge coming out of our area is just naively optimistic.
You can often find a different perspective on the places you regularly travel when you go to them at irregular times. I shot this pre 6:00 am (which is *very* early for me) on my way to a physicians meeting. Am I a doctor? You bet I am.
Chalkfarm Drive isn’t the most “desirable” of Toronto locales, but my friends Raissa and Adam live up there so I decided it would be a nice safe night to walk around the neighbourhood eat some eats, then walk back flaunting my expensive Camera equipment. But nobody stepped to test my merit; if you don’t start […]
I am terrible at calling people. In fact, I hardly ever do it.I will have to be extremely compelled to raise my hand to even begin to start dialling; it’s apathy at it’s finest.
I am elated that I will be spending Easter weekend, in it’s entirety, in Ottawa. But I have to hope that the Easter bunny will be able to find me so he can bring me easter presents. I wonder if Jesus knew there was a rabbit laying eggs on *his weekend*.
I don’t understand why people bother to feed squirrels, they are rodents that live in our trees. If we saw someone with their gigantic pet New York rat, feeding it some bread crumbs, peanuts, and trying to get it to come closer, people would look at me like I was crazy.If *The Great Outdoors* taught […]
Boy, Macro photography sure is fun.I borrowed my mom’s man’s 60mm F2.8 EFS lens this week and I’m walking around taking close up shots of everything. Look a flower! Look a candle! Look a used condom! I tell you, everything is fascinating through the eyes of this lens.
Not George Clinton…Bill.
I could write at length about how I had a poor and depraved childhood, how I mixed with the wrong crowd, but truly I didn’t. However this little piggy did; nobody likes a fatty. JUMP!
I’ve got a pair of Green shoes that I’ve only worn once. They’re AF1 high tops and are pretty comfortable (except I’m not a big high-top fan); I wore them when I dressed up as Aquaman; no joke, they went with my green tights and black hot pants well. My bleached blonde hair could be […]
It’s uh, not like I have a theme going or anything, I just haven’t gotten around to processing anything else this weekend so you get more ice from the Humber.
I tell you, this behemoth reared it’s ugly spire back in the days of my mothers youth. It is a bane on the Weston skyline and creates winds that’ll blow your face off. It’s also home to perpetually vacant “retail” spaces and office spaces, though business in my neighbourhood really only consists of pot dealers […]
Wednesday night is basically Thai-TV night. Aaron, Kari, and myself order from the local Thai restaurant (Aaron and I will try and sneak some China Town Chinese food, but Kari’s vote over-rules us both) and watch our PVR’d shows for the week. Last night I decided to switch it up, and a delicious change it […]
Victory is mine! We curled last night and won; Huzzah!I still fell on my ass every time I pushed off, but I managed to save myself some shame by landing the stones within the lines *most* of the time.
If things went well, there was delicious beer available for my birthday last night.
This is to all the ladies, tomorrow’s my birthday, tempt me with whatever you feel necessary; but the only present I want isn’t coming for another week…
I’m no expert, but this looks like a wedgie waiting to happen. Granted, I was wading through half-melted snow in my Safari’s and I probably could have used some ski’s, but then I’d look like this dude and that’s far less rad.
Geometric shapes are fascinating and shit.I was personally so interested in this hole I crab walked my way down the passage. What was on the other end? That’s a tale for another time.
This is basically it, for those who haven’t been here it’s a bit of snow and a Tim Hortons.
