Cream of condensed Toronto phone book

Circa 1993 – 1994 the following people were in the Toronto Phone Book.  Not all of these names are of real people, but the names were in the book.

BUSINESSES

Baloney Unlimited

Fuk Wai Motors

Holz-Her Machinery

Hustler Young Men’s Bible Class

Hyde-Whipp Interiors

Iona Presbyterian Church

Lolita Gardens Day Care

Mammon Diamonds

Mr. Wizzie’s Patties

Phuc-Thinh Jewellery

Showers of Blessing Evangelistic Ministry

St James-Bond United Church

The Lube Factory

Tita Lingerie

Tung Tai Bookstore

Wineknow

Wing On Funeral Home

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Robert Longo’s All You Zombies:Truth Before God

Jeff gave me a book many moons ago called “The Gendered Cyborg” which is a bunch of feminist art critique.  I found most of the book incomprehensible (use smaller words, in context, puhlease), some of it actively offensive (in the ‘inhaling your own exhaust’ sense), and the rest of it mildly disturbing/thought provoking.  But if you want REALLY disturbing, check out this piece of art, which I think is one of the best of the 20th century.  And I never would have known about it if Jeff hadn’t given me the book.

Robert Longo’s All You Zombies:Truth Before God

As you may have guessed, zombies are much on my mind these days.

Mike’s Utilikilt is on its way

As an act of compleat frickin insanity, I ordered Mike a Utilikilt for his birthday.  Yes, I ordered it too late, but on the other hand, it’s never too late.  Yes, a black one, is there any other kind?  A Chinese guy in a kilt?  Well, what else is he supposed to wear for occasions like this?  Not to mention fetish night, or any time he has to work outdoors.  It’ll be good for Wreck Beach, too.

Anyway, they just emailed me the tracking number, so I am assuming from this that I should see it in a couple of days – it’s only coming from Seattle.  And then, I get to see him model it.  A utilikilt has a thousand uses, and in this heat…. yeah.  Let the boys swing free!!!

I can think of at least eight guys I would love to see in a Utilikilt.  Mike McG (hell, he’s got the right last name); Robof9; LTGW; Keith; Tom L.; Tom U.; Paul (of course); and Battery.  The idea of a Maori in a kilt isn’t as strange as you might think.

Tarot reading

Re the next year:

  1. V swords
  2. IX Cups
  3. Death
  4. II Cups
  5. X Wands
  6. Page of Cups
  7. The High Priestess
  8. VIII Cups
  9. The Empress
  10. Ace of Cups

After winning a contest by trickery (or having won, gloat too hard and too long), and overcoming the inertia of self-satisfaction, I was smacked by Death into reconsidering all aspects of my life, including the notion that I have to be paired up with somebody in a romantic relationship.  I put down a large burden (my job) and am now contemplating a gift of wisdom and self-knowledge.  Filled with knowledge I may not reveal, I seem to be turning my back on ordinary life to take a lonely, moon-watched journey.  But the outcome will be fecundity, richness, and an outpouring of the gifts of the Spirit of Life.

An unbelievable layout.  I knew Death would be in the layout, and there it is, right at the top.