Category Archives: Toronto

Berry foraging, and Peach-Mulberry Boy Bait

I love fruit. I also love fruit-picking, and I especially love it when both of these things are free. It’s my second year as a volunteer for Not Far From the Tree, a wonderful group that seeks to share the bounty of the many backyard fruit trees within downtown Toronto. My experience with them has [...]
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Next stop, thesartorialist.com

My e-friend sidneylo turned real-life friend Sidney Lo worked on a round-the-world photo project photographing members of a fashion message board last year, and during his stop in Toronto, we clambered up to one of my favourite hangouts in the entire city, the famed ballroom at the King Eddy, and took some photos. When we were [...]
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Another one to add to The Rob Ford Files…

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A Waste…

An absolute, total, fucking waste. I didn’t know Charlie Prinsep all that well, not even enough to know his last name, but Charlie, first known to me as the larger-than-life Shiznaz on the BFSSFG. I knew him peripherally, through mutual friends, sort of in the same sphere but never cementing anything I’d call a [...]
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A manifesto.

I never thought myself a fearful person, but once in a while, I am shaken. On Saturday night my good friend Jason was hit by a car edging out from a side street as he rode west on Queen St. He was on his way back from Toby’s Disco Inferno alleycat (though he [...]
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