today was spectacular. I met up with my friend Richard, who writes the nationally syndicated queer column Three Dollar Bill, his lovely parents and a couple other friends. The best part were the Gay Line Dancers of Montreal, who line danced their way down the parade route to Shania Twain. The PFLAG groups got me choked up a bit, though everyone was very happy. I honestly don’t know what it would be like to be gay, but then I know what my relationships with my parents are like and how important they are to me. That many people (fewer, I hope?) lose the love of parents over something like this boggles my mind – at once making me quite indignantly angry and choking me up to know that there are reasonable adults out there who can really love their kids unconditionally. Anyhow.
Some experiences just
scream out to be written about. This afternoon was one of them. I needed a new washer and dryer, except that I don’t buy things like that new, I buy recycled, refurbished, or recovered versions. Whether it’s a latent anti-consumerism or just that I’m cheap I can’t say for sure. In any case – I checked a couple of places out in my neighbourhood before going to a store a friend had recommended: Ameublements Elvis. With a porcelain Elvis bust in the window, and posters everywhere – there was no question I was going to buy them there! So I got a completely refurbished set in excellent condition (it looks new) for $350. The cheapest models at the department stores here start at $1000. Economy and Elvis, with same-day delivery.
Of course, as
I tend to expect anymore, during the aforementioned sushi dinner (at a great place up on Bernard, West of du Parc) I met a woman and her partner, who are friends of Ed‘s. The world is quite simply too small.
I was out
for sushi the other night to celebrate my friend Suki’s birthday. I have known her a little bit for a long time, and last time we’d seen one another we talked for a while about her first novel, which she’d completed and was shopping around. Anyhow – the other night I asked and it seems things are going well, which is really cool news. At the previous dinner, Suki had given me her card, which of course I promptly lost. But I found it again last night, and through it I also found this, a little website for Go Through the Waves the first novel by Suki Lee.
There’s a new blog
in town. A friend of mine has put up his new site, for now (forever?) called jamessstreet.ottawa.on.ca. It’s still in need of some filling in, but I am really looking forward to the site.
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