Today was awesome! Went shopping in Toronto proper again, with buddies Graydon and Ian, who informed me that the two-to-four inches of snow sifting gently down on our heads was hardly worthy of notice, let alone comment. And so, with this in mind, we hiked from bookstore (Awesome!) to comic shop (overwhelming!) to sex boutique […]
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Graydon continues his mad documentation of things, and he managed to get some really good shots of some weird beasties at the zoo, including the dreaded Pink Ninja. So, for your viewing pleasure… I observe ducks. Yes, that’s me, looking like a Russian peasant. I include this because A) they were cool mandarin ducks (although […]
Went to the Toronoto zoo today! Many cool beasties. Many more were, of course, off exhibit owing to it being bloody cold, but it was still awesome. Tentacled snakes! An adorable beaver! Lynxes looking like hoary shamanic housecats! Gaur! Bison! Sloths! (Oh god, the sloths. I wanted to cuddle and wuggle them. They curled up […]
So here I am in Toronto! I was hoping for some birdwatching, but the weather always conspires against me, so I arrived during a cold snap…might possibly catch some waterfowl if lucky. Tomorrow we’re supposed to hit the zoo, which is often a good spot for birding. I have been promised strange ungulates. (Who doesn’t […]
I had a dream last night that I was trying to come up with an RPG character concept. (Yes. This is how geeky my dreams are.) Somehow I hit upon the notion that I wanted to play a hyper-intelligent goldfish. His little bowl would be set into a gigantic cyber death-machine (sort of like Nixon’s […]
This one was for fatfred who, I was informed, needed an otter and a egg painting about now. Always happy to oblige! Saint Otter and the Egg I’ll be donating proceeds from the sale of prints to breast cancer research–if anybody can suggest any particularly good charities in that line, please let me know, as […]
Whew! Busy, busy, busy. Heading off tomorrow for an actual honest-to-god vacation–visiting a buddy in the Great White North–for birdwatching and gallery hopping (okay, MOSTLY a vacation.) So today is spent frantically doing all the things that need to be done so that jobs get done/art gets shipped/the cats don’t explode while I’m gone, etc. […]
You know, hockey is a much more interesting sport when you’re ten feet off the ice. I’m not a big sports fan by nature, but that was nasty, brutish and short, which is generally how I like my bloodsports. (Hockey was explained to me as “soccer, on ice, with pain.”) When people are slamming into […]
If there is a recurring theme to conversations I have had with men this last week, it is this bit of wisdom from my dear friend Linda. I pass it along, O Readers, because when we speak of relationships, this is the one bit of advice that comes up over and over again. It is […]
Today I was a Responsible Adult for most of the day. I got my car emissions checked. I got an oil change. I scheduled a pap smear. (Hey, both the car and I have some mileage on us these days…) I paid bills. I did laundry. This sort of behavior is sufficiently stifling that I […]