it’s just me or what, but I seem to hear of or be in the midst of a ton of “small world” situations. But there was one just now that’s pretty weird. Every morning I listen to Daybreak on CBC radio. The regular host is on vacation this week, so a guy named Peter Downey is sitting in. The top story this morning is about a Montreal journalist named Katya who was injured in Lebanon earlier today. So Peter Downey intros the story – they called her for an interview – and it turns out he was her instructor at J-School last year at Concordia University.
BTW, the parade
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.
Today is a big
day! It’s the end of Montreal’s huge Divers/Cite festival, aka the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Pride celebration. It all wraps up with a parade which half a million people will watch (at least). In Montreal, things have turned a corner compared to some other cities though. It’s a big event in the mainstream. I won’t be surprised to see a group of nuns watching and cheering the floats as they go by – just to illustrate the real diversity of the audience.
Cool things about
Montreal on the web, exhibit A: an exhaustive study of Sushi in Montreal by Luc Devroye. I’ve been to several of the places mentioned, including Maiko last week, and he’s right on in his comments.
Shout out to former
Montrealers! Hey – Eaton’s has been closed for a while, but today I drove by and the old Eaton sign running down the corner on de Maisonneuve has been covered, letter by letter – it now reads “Ailes.” Hundreds of dead Westmount matrons are rolling in their graves. That’s right – Les Ailes de la mode has taken over the first 4 floors of the building. In an interesting bit of irony (well, irony for like 3 people), Les ailes is owned by the San Francisco Clothing Group, a company based… here in Montreal. Pictures to come this weekend.
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