sunshine: street guilt dunzo

know how every time you shop around the city you inevitably see some nice looking young person asking you to give a little bit of money to a dying child at sick kids and you smile or look down and feel bad because you need that money for smokes? well, today you get your revenge. blog t.o. alerted my to an article in the star that explains those people not only work for some third party organizations (ie. not sick kids), they're on commission.

didn't see h potts on the weekend. not becuase i'm not obsessed like everyone else, but because i love it enough to wait until the theater won't be crazy crowded. if you went, let me know what you thought (without spoilers). in the meantime, there's a new trailer online for daniel radders next movie, december boys.

the blogging loves of my life, josh and josh, have been updating like crazy. on this day of my birth they happen to have posted random devil wears prada quotes. meant to be? i think the answer is pretty obvious.

quarter centch

amy was awesome enough to have a birthday party for me on saturday and the best peeps in the world showed up to sip on some. with about 8 summer weekends a year in toronto, couldn't have been happier that everyone decided to bring their face melting dance moves to our place. if the quality of the photos isn't amazing it's only because the night was totally balls out.

lara


sasha and pete mac


dancehall


dan


sunday morning met up with amy sash and conor for the worst breakfast ever at brownstone on yonge


amy got a shirt

everything

this is some of the radest shit i've seen in a while. three minds alerted me to something called light graffiti. it uses small lights and slow exposure to create wicked pictures like this. if i ever figure out how to use my camera, expect to see a lot more of it.

this is the closest i've come to successfully experimenting with my camera. anyway, turns out amy isn't the only person you should avoid on the road. i agree that dying because you had to text while driving is a stupid way to bite it, but i think this study overlooks how dangerous it is trying to make an itrip work while you drive. those things suck

scary stuff. queerty has an update on the ex-gay/michael glatze news from last week. just me, or gays over 30 are critically different?

crocs-a-dile rock

went up to the cottage with les for a couple days. while we were there i heard a horrifying story about someone who died on a snowmobile, a machine i've avoided my whole life, and will now continue to do so. going to see chromeo tonight. will rave all about it tomorrow and if my computer doesn't suck will try to throw up some vids.

les


someone told me jackson pollock made this, apparently he made sculptues before he was a painter

you should've been there

amy and conor snagged my camera the other night and i just wanted to throw up a few pictures that i like.

failed jump pic


josh and vaders


conor

had me a blast

last night went to the drake with amy and dan. we met up with adam, conor and dylan for a night called summer lovin. it was comedy/music performed by real life couples and put on by holly and inessa. with a very little exception the whole night went really well. even technical problems kind of made me laugh

amy taking orange drink from holly and her man stu


inessa and monster drew


henry wrestling his girlfriend


it was rad night, but if you're pissed you missed out don't make the same mistake tomorrow. come see holly, inessa and other funny chicks at heartjobs, it's part of the fringe festival.

lost balls, found god

today i was shocked and horrified to learn that michael glatze is no longer gay. which is news to me because the mike i met at montreal pride a couple years ago was, indeed, very gay. he was a founding editor of now apparently defunct magazine young gay america (or YGA), creator of gayteensuicidedoc jim in bold, and boyfriend to the object of my affections in summer 2005.

mike's written some whacky "column" about breaking free from the shackles of homoness for some kind of news outlet called world net daily. it's full of stuff that sounds like this...

"driven to look for truth, because nothing felt right, I looked within. jesus christ repeatedly advises us not to trust anybody other than him. I did what he said, knowing that the kingdom of god does reside in the heart and mind of every man."

obviously, I think he's a fucking idiot, but these are clearly the words of someone with a very thin handle on his own identity. so I guess there's no real reason to hate, and everyone should feel kind of bad for him. be tee dubs, he's actually quite good looking, in a steve nash kind of way.