12 Jul Day nine, ten and eleven: Cabin in the woods
"If I get up to get this mouse, yet again, I have impunity to fart," says P. Fine, fart all you want, just get rid of it! At 3AM and unable to sleep, I wasn't about to...
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09 Jul Day Seven, I mean Eight: Little Malta
OK, my laundry was getting out of hand and I had a backlog of marking to do...
07 Jul Day Six: Touristy Tour revisited
My first memory of the CN Tower, or, I should say, my dad's first parental nightmare was me spread eagle face down on the tower's glass floor. I was about five: "It scared the crap out...
06 Jul Day Five: Wall of Death at Albion Hills
"And that Wall of Death climb was ...
05 Jul Day Four: Queen of Kensington
When I was a kid growing up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, I watched the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) show, The King of Kensington. Actor Al Waxman portrayed Larry, a working class all-round nice guy who...
04 Jul Day three: touring cemeteries, contemplating life
I don't think I've ever really given my burial much thought. I'm quite ambivalent with the whole death thing; I still think it won't happen. Somehow I will be the one that lives forever. But...
03 Jul Day Two: A good ole’ Russian Whisking
"If I pain you, you say, yes?" says the adorable Russian gymnast-looking banshyk, a Russian masseur. Face down on a hot wooden sauna bench, I look up: "OK." Wearing a borrowed one-piece bathing suit, something my grandma might wear, it's so...
02 Jul Day One: Little heads at The Royal Ontario Museum
"Look at its tiny head!" says Vieve, pointing at the dinosaur's skeleton that spans the entire length of the museums's foyer.
This is Genevieve Sebastian's interpretation of Little Head at the ROM.
Perched on top of its body, its head is almost smaller than mine.
That's the funny thing with evolution: big heads progress confirming that nerds will eventually take over the planet. Yahoo.
I'm at the Royal Ontario Museum that has been on Bloor and Avenue Road in Toronto since 1914; it's one of North America's largest museums of natural history, culture and art that pulls in over one million visitors a year. Here are a few of my favourites on my first ever visit. But, a bit of background.
The ROM. Some love it; some hate it, architecturally speaking, of course.
29 Jun The July Project – the countdown is on
For the last few weeks my head feels like a piñata full of bits and pieces of Toronto. And, in two days it's about to be cracked open! I will be traipsing around Toronto, biking through neighbourhoods like Little Malta, Little Jamaica, and sailing on Lake Ontario, strutting around the nude beach on the islands, and getting punished in a Russian bathhouse in the burbs, in search of a new Toronto adventure--just like I would on any other trip. The July Project (TJP) is the culmination of over four months of reading about Toronto, and constantly asking locals, 'If you had to recommend one place, or one thing to do or see in Toronto, what would you suggest?'13 Apr The Toronto Dancing Man
There was a man. Not just any man. This man danced. He danced salsa. He danced swing. He even danced tango. And, despite my inexperience, in this man's arms, I felt like I could dance....