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Having done the Becel ride for heart numerous times, including riding as a team captain I have some tips which new riders may find helpful. And will help to ensure their day is a success. The subway does not run that early. I lived at Yonge and Finch and had …
Zuimei launches his new career as the owner of a gay bar tonight! Touhenboku is located in Ueno, a part of Tokyo Japan. The name, Touhenboku, literally translates to “block head” in English which is odd, but if you look at other English/Japanese translations there is a certain amount of …
It has been a year since I wrote the blog post on my top 5 restaurants in Toronto and my, how things have changed. With Zuimei away in Japan I tend to eat at restaurants a little closer to home. This has happily exposed me to some new and excellent …
I was asked by the lovely and talented May if I would participate in CBC’s “It gets better” video. Of course I said “yes”. The opportunity to tell younger versions of me to hang on wasn’t something I could pass up. Of course after the fact you think of even …
The Star posted an op-ed piece by Joe Fiorito about how cyclists are doing good for the city. I thought I would calculate my own contribution just for fun. Using Runkeeper I recorded my commute to work. This is from my house to the CBC downtown. Just to make the …
Often I look at the restaurants in my neighbourhood and think “How the hell can you survive?” With the Bistro Camino I think “Why the hell are you here?” The area is low income, sort of down and out with subsidized housing around it. More the sort of neighbourhood that …
First lets take a look at what we were dealing with. The kitchen wasn’t bad per se, it just didn’t really have a good energy to it. the first issue is that it was a rental property, so everything was of lower quality. The walls were painted gray. almost the …
So you decided that you want to renovate your kitchen. First off, give your head a shake. Do you really need to do this? If, for whatever reason, you still feel it is something you wish to do there are a few things I would recommend doing. Contractors & Contracts Choosing …
I am a huge fan of Banksy. I think his work is thought provoking and relevant to modern times. I am a little unsure of his recent works however. He is releasing a new movie called exit through the gift shop. What concerns me is the recent spat of work …