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My camera is bait. I missed so many good shots today for fear I’d give myself away. You lose everything candid about the moment and people scatter. After they stare, startled by the sound of my camera phone, wondering exactly how much was exposed or overheard. That photographer was so far away that I had […]
Posted in: (un)Employment
Belief Systems
May 7, 2014
I believe woodland fairy princesses are evergreens by day. Protecting the good people of Toronto having lunch in parks like it’s her job. Changing behind tree trunks because not unlike super men, phone booths are hard to find. After losing my cell here, I certainly do. Retracing my steps from Broadview and Danforth, down the […]
Posted in: Shout Outs
Apartments
May 6, 2014
I take the streetcar to High Park and see this: apartments for us all as shown here. After a monster drag winter, I do this a lot. It’s pretty lucky that I didn’t have to take the streetcar anywhere important during that ice storm. My preferred way of getting around intentionally above ground already has […]
Posted in: Lost Connections
Zoologist
May 5, 2014
This is the hand that feeds swans and a certain pigeon. That’s not rare in this sort of animal-friendly town. (You’ll recall that IKEA monkey from Toronto by way of Montreal before it was released into government-subsidized captivity.) The birdman says some people say it’s cruel to only feed one or two. If he doesn’t, […]
Posted in: Shout Outs, Writing But Like For A Living
Exes
April 30, 2014
There’s a slaughterhouse smell that used to remind me of an ex. It was his dream job. Like a pig in shit sat behind a mid-level desk at a pork factory that stunk up King and Bathurst, not far from the downtown harbourfront. He’d wear a lot of cologne, we’d walk down after work and […]
Posted in: Shout Outs
Very, very…
April 19, 2014
…tight. All of my pants are. Even though it’s fish escovitch this weekend with other national dishes you can Google. Jamaicans eat this for breakfast all the time, but especially now…it’s tough to swallow bloody, red meat after what Jesus did. You’ll want to walk it off and not wonder how long ’till Calvary with […]
Posted in: World News
Unbelievable
April 18, 2014
Some people stay the same. Mid-March and these jokers still had all this Christmas stuff up. It’s every year with them and half a dozen others sharing my postal code. I took this picture to remember an old friend the way I like her best. By accident I left the flash on is why it’s […]
Posted in: Lost Connections
Trust
April 16, 2014
Gardez un bon equilibre entre vos ambitions et votre douce nature. I don’t trust my French. Not in a Montreal hotel that cringing time a champagne toast wedding reception wasn’t the complimentary breakfast served daily. Or with a bilingual cookie fortune from a local Vietnamese restaurant, at least not anymore. And it’s all because of […]
Posted in: I'm Over It, Lexicon
Yellow (and Purple)
April 1, 2014
This is Toronto’s new streetcar pulling into Main Station. The business casual guy with a laptop sat far away from everyone else was the junior exec. Emailing his boss about test times, I imagine. Everyone else was in full uniform plus a subordinate glow-in-the-dark vest clearly for underlings not seen here. Those vests must feel […]
Posted in: I Just Like It A Lot, Shout Outs
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Hyperactive Inefficiency 
May 9, 2014
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