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Andrew

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About Me

I'm Canadian. I live in the capital city, Ottawa. I am gay. I am a Capricorn. I am thrilled to be alive (most of the time) and I am in love. I have two wonderful parents, a younger brother and a fairly large family. I live in a small apartment with a beautiful view. I have a small fuel-efficient automobile. I am not obsessed with consumerism and find commercial culture kind of...ferocious. I have to shop but it's not a favourite passtime. I like to cook good food. I despise idiots, intolerance and impotence. I loathe crappy, generic music. I crave information. I have little patience for pretense. I have a hard time mingling at parties (shy as a breeze) but dance like a maniac in a bubble world of euphoria if the song kidnaps me. I am happiest in small groups or all alone. I read design books and magazines, architecture periodicals and lavish garden books with impossible photography. I have a slight Martha Stewart fetish. I react strongly to injustice. I make ridiculously amazing scrapbooks, usually sitting up at night by lamplight while the stars count the hairs on my head.

My Interests

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I'm interested in meeting anyone, really. I don't have any agenda.

My Blog

House of Me t-shirt

A package arrived at my door this afternoon containing a box with Annie Lennox's signature on it. It was the House of Me t-shirt I ordered from her website. I had no idea I was one of the first 100 pe...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:20:00 GMT

Annie Lennox fantasy album

With the Annie Lennox Collection now out in North America, my brain is wired to Britain's leading lady of song. And I can't help but imagine what's next for the cunning little bird. Greatest Hits albu...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:41:00 GMT

Obama coming to Canada

For his first official state visit outside the US, Obama will be coming to Canada - the largest trading partner and closest ally of the United States - keeping with the tradition of most US presidents...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:15:00 GMT

Obama on gay rights

Directly from the White House webpage, we see how Obama plans to expand civil rights for the LGBT community in the United States. Most of these kinds of provisions were enacted here in Canada in 2004 ...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:08:00 GMT

America returns

For most of 2007 I listened to David Bowie and Pat Metheny's song "This Is Not America" just about every day. Well, not every day, but very, very often. The song laments the loss of American values an...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:50:00 GMT

The Road

I read this book in an afternoon. It was so gripping in its visual and thematic scope that I literally could not put it down. "The Road" by author Cormac McCarthy (author of No Country for Old Men and...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:54:00 GMT

Merry Christmas!

Every December 10th, the National Capital Commission in Ottawa flips a switch and over a million little Christmas lights come on. Parliament Hill and all of the federal parks in the city are lit up at...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:53:00 GMT

Man murdered by consumerism

Worker dies in Black Friday rushby Bob Monek, Eyewitness NewsVALLEY STREAM, NEW YORK-- Police are reviewing video from surveillance cameras Saturday in an attempt to identify the customers who trample...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:18:00 GMT

The case against religion

Religion does untold damage to our politics. An atheist's lament. By Sam Harris Newsweek Nov. 13, 2006 issue - Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of life and the ...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:15:00 GMT

Borderline by Joni Mitchell

Everybody looks so ill at easeSo distrustful so displeasedRunning down the tableI see a borderlineLike a barbed wire fenceStrung tight, strung tensePrickling with pretenseA borderlineWhy are you smirk...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:19:00 GMT