Growing Old

I'm sitting on a train hung over, burned out and nauseous; listening to Tool and melting into the sunset.  If you feed the pollution and disintegrating ozone to the malnourished dog, the rest of the gourmet sky becomes beautiful and the suns rays can pierce through the earth - like my eggs ever-easy every morning.  And if I flush out the beer cans left behind by last night's froshers, Ottawa's canal can flood my eyes with tears of stevia.

tsunami jam 7 years ago!

Remember LiveJournal? I sure do! That site got me so many women... and got me in so much trouble.

I went through my old rants and found this... an impromptu jam session in 2004 to raise money for tsunami relief.

I'm on the bongo's and my friend is struggling to keep up on the djambé.

  Tsunami jam 2004 by pykmusic

things

Things that are disgusting:  massive death.  union busting.  total physical exhaustion.  sick beats:

catty baits

I met the real-life version of Kathy Bates yesterday. She was driving the TTC bus into York U. I thought she was going to run over pedestrians then run us off a cliff while screaming "STUPID YOUTH OF TODAY TAKE OFF YOUR HEADPHONES! STOP LISTENING TO NOISE! GET OFF THE ROAD DAMN YOU STUPID DRIVER BAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH"

But she didn't.

happy new years

Here's what I learned on this new years day:

• Australia: massive flooding with gigantic damage.
• Arkansas, Illinois and Missouri have all been hit with deadly tornado's. 
• The blizzards in the Northeast have left people stranded with major damage.
• The death toll in Africa rising exponentially 
• Ivory Coast is gathering to surround Ouattara's hotel for a rally. I'm sure the death toll will be tomorrow's news.  
• Pakistan: Missile attacks and bombers in Pakistan kill several more than last week's attack
• Argentina: 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit today.
• Haiti: Cholera death toll rises to more than 3,000.
• Russia: 1 person killed, 3 missing, 4 in hospital after an explosion and fire on Russian plane. 
• Egypt:  A bomb kills 21 and wounds 80 in New Years Mass outside of a Coptic Egyptian church.
• Italy: One person was killed, more than 70 injured after gunshots and fireworks rang in the new year.
• Iraq: opened the new year with bloodshed as two police officials were show dead.  
• Canada: 
• Calgary has it's first homicide of the year.
• shooting at Ontario place (non-fatal) 
• double stabbing on queen street (non-fatal) 

And that's the New Years news from 3am-8am.

May be the Mayan's are right?

BTW, New York prepared for a new years eve terrorist attack in Time Square.  They had undercover cops, radiation detectors and even snipers set up around the new years party - which attracted around 1M people. Thankfully the event ran smoothly.  

bloor street buddhist

i was stopped on the street today by a canvassing buddhist - he was a young white man in an orange robe with some paint on his forehead, talking to people and giving away books on buddhism (one of them was a book, he said, inspired gandhi, mandela and mlk).  he said that i look "at peace".  i smiled and nodded. he asked me what my secret is. i explained that it's not one big secret, but a bunch of little ones. he offered me a book and asked for a donation. i told him that his books look interesting, but i honestly was not going to read them.  I'm pretty happy and i'm not looking for enlightenment or spiritual growth right now.  I told him that there are many more torontonians that could benefit from these books. I wished him good luck and bid him farewell - and now i wish i stayed and talked a bit longer with him.  i wonder what his story is.

sometimes i like sharpe marker facial hair

i don't like halloween.

so much pressure to dress up/i hate dressing up

WE'RE SO EXCITED

weird psycho ttc driver

he looks friendly, doesn't he?

Yesterday, I took a bus route that I was unfamiliar with. At Bathurst station I asked if this “express to exhibition” bus would stop at Fleet street. It obviously didn’t, but I was in a rush. The bus driver put his arm around me and said “eh.. eh yea jew know, fo you, I’ll a work somethin out". So I was kinda like, uh, yea? You sure? Should I just wait for the Bathurst Southbound Streetcar? And he was all like "shhh just don’t tell anyone eh! You know, if you don’t say nothin, then no one will know. I’ll work somethin out fo you. Justa get on yea? Shhhh”

So I got on. And by King Street he turned on the automated voice of God that tells you what stops are next. 10 stops later, the voice says "fleet street is next". So, thinking may be he had forgotten, I ran the dingy bell thing, got up with a smile and said thank you. But no… then he yelled at me for ringing the bell and blowing his secret under-cover courteous bus driver scam.

Ugh, anyways, this story was much more interesting in my head.

virginia gold by people you know

skull shot

Justin Bieber got hit in the face by a water bottle.

the busker

There was an old man waiting out front of the concert tonight. He was a short with a yellow shirt, a fedora and mismatched shoes. He sat on the floor with his eyes shut singing out some Mccartney hits. I heard him wailing "let it be, let it be..." so I said hi. We talked for a long time. I guess he couldn't afford a ticket so he came to sit outside of the doors to take in what he could.


He reminded me that nostalgia is a great feeling.

Shaq's a 12-year-old-girl

In probably the greatest transition ever, Shaquille O’Neal goes from talking to Vanity Fair about his friendship with Justin Bieber to his secret career catching cyber-predators by pretending to be a 12-year-old girl. And, yes, I’m talking about the large black man up there:

As long as you stay on the right side, you’ll be fine. For the last seven years, I’ve been a detective for Internet crimes against children. So if you ever see me, you know we’ve got you. If we come to your house, it’s all over. You’re going to be arrested. You’ve been having Internet conversations with me, and we’ve got all the evidence we need to take you down.
What’s your arrest catchphrase?
My catchphrase? Like a motto?
What do you say when you’re roughing up a perp? “On the floor, dirtbag!” “Book ‘em, Danno!” That kind of thing.
Well, uh. (Long pause.) My job is to be a little girl.
Come again?
I play a little girl on the Internet. So whatever name I’m going by, that will probably be my catchphrase. If I’m Tanya, then it’ll be something like, “Tanya says hello.” And they’ll be like, “Tanya who?” And I’ll say, “You don’t know no Tanya, huh? I’m Tanya. Let’s go.” And that’s when the cuffs get slapped on you.
I’d be less concerned with the handcuffs than the fact that a seven foot bald man just introduced himself as Tanya.
(Laughs.) Yeah, they don’t like that very much.

I’m pretty sure the last thing I ever expected to find out was that Shaq secretly pretends to be a lit- wait, did he just say Tanya? *chucks laptop in the river*

Thanks to Darwin Police who’d like you to take a seat right over there, please.

Photos: Splash News
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I wish it was Justin

There's an intern that comes in before me. Beebz. An awkward-looking, overly confident 22-year-old who's made nothing but bad impressions since day one. I ran into him on his way out and he was bragging about how he comes in 3 days a week (as opposed to 2).
Yeah.
Dang.
He says the news room is quiet so he can sit back and watch Star Wars. So I asked him why he'd come all the way here so that he could watch TV when he can just do that at home. He said to me "you just don't get it do you? (*this is where i cringed*) You're out of sight, out of mind. The more I'm here, the more I'm noticed." I kinda just gave him that I-don't-know-what-to-say look, as I often do when I don't know what to say. He asked about my pink headband then walked away awkwardly.

Lohan Maddness

Mr. Papa Lohan is on Larry King Live tomorrow night...

Lindsay goes to jaaaaaaaail!