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neil

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About Me

Eternal Undergrad, former corporate whore, Brampton Refugee, Last of the Dilettante Saints, Beatified Paperboy, Dishevelled Prep,lover of pixies and pretentious indie rock - a good piano hook makes my soul smile, Lazy Leftist, wholehearted supporter of chain-smoking and binge drinking, devotee of crap tv and Ronco merchandise, wannabe member of the Glass clan, total and utter imposter, would-be utopian socialist and all around charlatan.
"I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy" -Seymour Glass

"What to do? Stay green. Never mind the machine, Who's fuel is human souls. Live large, man, and dream small." -R.S Thomas

My Blog

That's great it starts with a toothache.

So flipping through my four channels I get with my rabbit ears last night I caught a little snippet of one of those asinine celebrity culture shows on City. The story I caught was about Britney Spear...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:35:00 GMT

an old chestnut

I remember once as a child sitting in the pew at church minding my own business, playing with whatever little trinket mum let me take with me to keep me occupied.It was at a particularly solemn part o...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:33:00 GMT

In Honour of Newman (my own personal high school tragedy)

So in honour of newman posting his most embarassing high school crushing, I figured I'd follow suit: I was in OAC, and I decided to take night school classes at the public school as it was easier ...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:22:00 GMT

Christmas Memories pt i

So a few years back, well more than a few years to be frank, I was sitting in Future's smoking and pretending to write as I had just been kicked out of University so I figured I might as well try my ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:32:00 GMT

Further Adventures in Precedence

when i was a kid I thought ham was what boys eat and bologna was what girls were supposed to eat.     of course I also REFUSED to eat Grilled Cheese sandwiches because I thought they were ca...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:15:00 GMT

Father's Day

I was nineteen and it was summer.  Sitting on the lawn at the Amphitheatre with my girlfriend of five or six dates resting against my chest, feeling the warm lake breeze rolling in, watching...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:23:00 GMT

A Tale of Two Thursdays or Next Stop Buboes

   So this is a tale of two thursdays, the first is intrinsically related to the second (although not in an immediately recognizable way - bear with me).       Last...
Posted by on Fri, 05 May 2006 15:09:00 GMT

Stopping by Spadina on a Snowy Evening

There's a certain kind of snow that acts as an insulator; both of cold and sound. Tonight was that kind of snow. Walking along Harbord and up Spadina I had snow on my coat and a grin on my face. List...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 02:47:00 GMT

Eulogizing Neil

One day (God willing) someone will say this about me on that fateful day: "...A man of low condition, life, and reputation, a kidnapper of women, violator of virgins and widows, a panderer who persu...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:07:00 GMT

jesus, that's enough vs. private parts

core: what i wonder about..you know, i've never really had to see someone / interact with someone i've been intimate with after that context has changed. i dont know how you guys do it.neil: i dunno e...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:10:00 GMT