Wee can be heroes

I was speaking to a spry young Nonno today while at Piccininni Park. I had spoken to him once before. He told me how he takes care of his granddaughter five days a week, 12 hours a day. He said it keeps him young.

Today when we spoke again he told me of how children and seniors are his heroes. He told me how he often visits a nearby nursing home and plays his accordion for the residents. He said seeing the smiles on the faces of the people who can no longer take care of themselves is the greatest reward. He thinks himself a very lucky man.

I like men like that.

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In other news, today on the Dufferin bus there was a curly haired man wearing a woolly sweater. He licked his finger just before pressing the 'Stop' button.

"We're experiencing a little fried eggulence..."

Everybody!! Forgot to post this sooner:

Webisode #2 of Spookey Ruben's Dizzy Playground.

(In the credits you will notice the name of a certain special someone under 'Additional Writing' [i.e. me].)

Please advise me of any and all feedback you may have!

Check 'er out... and LIKE IT!

Cousin married getting happening

I'm in charge of ye olde PowerPoint slide show to be presented while guests filter into the reception at my cousin's upcoming wedding.

[Aside: I love PowerPoint presentations, but won't get into them on this post. Remind me to do so on a rainy day at some point in time. Definitely blog-worthy information, anecdotes and PPT praises galore.]

The tunes I have thrown together to go with the corresponding photos of love, being in love, loving, are the shiiiiat; the cat's meow, if you will.

She wanted all, Michael Bublé this, Israel Kamakawio'ole that; cry me several rivers-type music. I told her frankly over e-mail, your song selections made me feel very, very sad. Aren't you getting married?

So, the stuff I have conjured up is it. People are 'a be impressed with mizzle. (Me).

Happy-Angry

Today while playing out snack time with the children we came into a little rough patch after I had spoken to S (2.5 years old) about her behaviour.

Even though I was the one who was unhappy with her, she responded,

"I'm happy to eat, but angry to talk."

Sometimes children are so concise. So concise that you almost don't know what they're talking about.

A-MAZZ-ing

So I said I was going to talk about restaurants on here, so let's talk about restaurants for a minute.

I just love Mazz sushi on the south side of Bloor, just west of Ossington. This place really has the best sushi I've ever had, outside of Japan. All those places in the Annex just don't cut it.

Two notables: try their spicy banana rolls (outta sight!) and anything white tuna just completely saves the day. The spicy lobster rolls are pretty a-mazz-ing too. (Ok, three notables.)

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In other news, I wanted to share a poster with you I found a while ago taped to a pole in my neighbourhood. It reads as follows:

FREE HEAD AND BRAINS!!!!

FREE HEAD AND BRAINS!!!!

FREE HEAD AND BRAINS!!!!

FREE HEAD AND BRAINS!!!!

FREE HEAD AND BRAINS!!!!

FREE HEAD AND BRAINS!!!!

I'M A BRAINER!

CHIRS SAMBA-AN
&
RYAN BERNARDO

CELL: 647-832-XXXX

Um, WHAT!???!!!!??

Driving school

There is a sign for a driving school in my neighbourhood which reads:

"DRIVING SCHOOL: WE CUT AT ALL COST"

God, I wouldn't want to learn to drive there.

Shad K: Doing the life thing

Check THIS vid out!

You know him, we love him, my old roomie, SHAD K.! I am so proud of this guy...

Catch him, Sept. 17 at the Mod Club. Be der!!

The battle(')s at home

My friend RM passed along this article to me. Great stuff. Congrats, you big Tool.

However, quite honestly, that's great that D. Tool, or whatever his name is now wants to hit it to China, but I've got enough of these things to deal with locally, not to mention in my own home. He's all 'acting globally,' but I'm suffering locally.

Exhibit A: I see my roommate has purchased a canister of veg. protein powder. There is an icon on the can that looks/reads as follows: There is a big circle and just inside it says "DO NOT" and then within the circle there is another circle, inside of which is printed "CARB" and this circle has a red slash through it. So, I get the impression that this powder is trying to tell me, 'Do not not carb.' No clue what is going on here. This thing was made in the YOU ESS (U.S.). I just don't understand.

In other news, today I saw a man wearing a jean jacket approach the shopkeeper of a discount clothing store. He said to the shopkeep,

"Do you have any jean jackets?"

And dood replied,

"No."

Jean jacket man appeared aghast at this announcement. And by this, I mean basically completely put out. He made a corresponding angry sound and everything.

Moral of the story: Have zero expectations when shopping at Million Dollar Discount Dollar.

Weekend of the stars

So this weekend I was kicking it "two person style" with JCmp at her cott. Great times were had by all (two of us).

I love how being out of town means that you can just drink alcohol constantly and consistently (and briskly) throughout a day.

On the way home when we were listening to a highway report on the radio, they told us "If you're on the bottle, stay off the throttle." ...right.

Just wanted to throw a few pics up here of the things I like at J's c:

Tiny ashtray


Tiny maybe boxer, slash, Boston terrier. A... Boxton?


Don't ask

Honestly Edward's

(By the way: Blog title copyright KZ 2007.)

So, I was waltzing out of the place today (Honestly Edward's, that is) and I saw that someone had rather carelessly discarded the packaging from their 'Mini Funny Iron' directly below - and in front of - the garbage receptacle.

Mini... funny? Iron...?

I'm not sure that I understand.

Children of the sick and famous

Two items (anyone into this bullet list thing as much as I am?):

1) Yesterday I was at the park pushing Satori on the swing. There were a whole bunch of camp kids there, as there always are, and there was a small one beside us, also being pushed on a swing by his counsellor. All of a sudden, the counsellor knelt down beside the kid and said,

"Do you feel like you're going to throw up again?"

Um, if this were the case, why was this kid even on a swing at all!? Some camp!

Two) Later in the day Satori and I saw a Smart car. She told me that her bro really likes them and I said, "Me too! Will you buy me one?", in a jokingly fashion. She then said that yes, she would buy me one some day:

"When I grow up, I'll buy a wallet... then I'll buy some money... then I'll buy you a Smart car!"

Precious... precious! If children ruled, my, how much easier and funner life would be.

Just wanna talk about magic for a minute here...

Two items on the subject of magic:

1) Today as I was strolling down Bloor, on the north side of the street, between Christie and Bathurst stations - to be exact - I spotted a Chinese restaurant called "The Taste of Magic." My god, if they've discovered how magic tastes, the chefs at that restaurant are really one step closer to figuring out what life's all about.

2) I now have a Magic Bullet in my home. Remember my post about seeing the infomercial for it about a hundred times? Yah, well now I own one. The blender, slash, juice extractor, and party cups, each with different coloured lids, are still hanging out at my parents', but I got the real deal here - the two different sized cups and the two different blades: chopping blade and whipping blade. Ok? So things are looking pretty rad.

Been sick of looking at that glass for a couple weeks now?

The title of my blog today is

"Jail Shmail"

Personally, I don't see a thing wrong with our legal system - or that of the USA's - after reading this article my friend MP passed along.

Oh, and congrats on your nuptials, Tremayne.