1500 prisoners in the philippines learned the choreography to thriller in the video above. of course it's cool to watch because 1500 people doing anything choreographed usually is. but what really impresses me about this is what a creative idea it is as an activity for inmates. i'd never been impressed with dancers until i took some hip-hop classes for fun last winter with some friends. not only was it a fun way to spend an hour moving, but it left me in as good a headspace as any of the few physical things i actually love to do. does anyone know if canadian prisons have similar programs?
my friend chet just posted a really freaky story about an explosion that happened outside his work today in new york. turns it was just a steam pipe, but he (and probably everyone else in hearing distance) understandably assumed it was a terrorist attack. there a lot of reasons why i'm jealous of his life in nyc, but fear of dying in a politically motivated bombing isn't one of them. i don't think i'm naive about how dangerous the world can be, but i think we all feel relatively safe in toronto and i'm totally grateful for that.
i was lucky enough to get a ticket to see hairspray last night from dan and am happy to report it kicks exactly as much ass as you want it to. it never tries to be something it isn't (ahem, dreamgirls), and works perfectly. the highlight for me is nikki blonsky who manages to play tracy with equal parts of wicked confidence and hilarious teenage passion. her infatuation with the movie's local dance show is dead on, reminded me of sjp and helen hunt watching dance tv. 
my only problem with the movie are my conflicted feelings about zac efron. a 19 year old should not be able to melt my heart like that.
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.
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.
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?
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 
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. 
