Today's discovery: the best way to pass the time on a long bus ride with a small child, or possibly even without one for that matter, is to come up with entertaining story snippets for each stop they announce. Examples from this evening's ride on the Don Mills bus, all the way from Danforth up to Fairview Mall (to get the Lynxcub the belated main ( Read more... )

In keeping with my new resolution not to neglect LJ in favour of Facebook, and the fact that I only have one life at the moment and thus can't really generate two separate sets of life events for the two platforms, I am hereby recycling several of the bits and pieces I've posted there over the last couple of days. Actually, they'll probably be a ( Read more... )

This weekend, there's a "Pedestrian Celebration" happening on St. Clair from Vaughan to Winona, called Feet on the Street. They've closed that section of the street off to car traffic, kind of like the Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market, except that it included part of today as well as most of the day tomorrow ( Read more... )

With all due apologies to those who hate the whole idea of Valentine's Day, I had a pretty good one. This was mostly due to the fact that lgbtech came up for the weekend, which is always a good thing. :-)

1. Saturday we were intending to go to a 40s-themed party, so we spent the afternoon acquiring appropriate clothing at Kensington Market vintage shops.
   
   ( Clothing squee )

Not to mindlessly repeat the name of the blog I found it in, but this really, truly is an epic win:

Saw this in glamourbombing, had to share;

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There are a couple of other fun videos at the site it comes from, too: The Fun Theory. Apparently it's a project by Volkswagen, and based in Sweden. They're running a contest for creative ways to get people to change their behaviour for the better (be it environmentally, or in terms of health, or whatever) by making ( Read more... )

Due to a mega work crunch, I will not be going to as much Pride stuff as I'd hoped to, but two things I will be going to are Funkasia tonight and the Dyke March tomorrow ( Read more... )

OK, so who else wants to go to the Strawberries & Asparagus spring festival in Cedarvale Park tomorrow? I'll be going, as will kettunainen and optimystik, though I'm not sure what time yet. If there are other people who'd like to go, maybe we can make a group outing of it ( Read more... )