Minority Rules: Canadian Federal Election and Pride Weekend in Toronto

[nfotxn]

Oh baby, what a doozey of a weekend. It's Wednesday right? I will attempt to recall the weekend past as best I can. Merely for the sake of posterity. However chronology may be challenging.

Friday was minorly uneventful starting with dinner with old gays and new gays tonka_cub and ourson66 whom seem like fine fellows. I have yet to determine their Al Queda operative status. Then ending in a drunken stoned stupor at Malcom's as demonstrated by this random videoclip found on my camera.

Satuday goes up in bong hits, sitars and lots of gay, gay and gay. I decided to go to The Beef Ball/Le Bal de Bouef to do my first circuity sorta thing. It was pretty fun actually and I was totally wrong to harsh on the party so many years previous. The crowd was friendly, fun and I even brushed shoulders with some a-list muscle bear freaks! Good time had by all however the DJ needs to give up that anthemic tribal bullshit. I can't believe I am writing a rave cliché but: the DJ totally killed my energy with a set I didn't agree with. All my gays went home with other gays except me because I am a virgin and saving myself for marriage. I still had fun and will probably do it again next year.

Sunday... parade! I wore flowers on my head! I punk rocked the parade with D'arcy! I marched with the NDP and Gay Geeks! I slathered 2fruition with drunken compliments at the eagle for which I am so sorry!

Monday I woke up with a rather bad hangover, came home, voted and met my new kitten Lucy (whom I refer to as Lucifer). My Mom and brother had picked her up while I was away from the SPCA. She is 3 months old, tiny and has a "upper respiratory infection" which is akin to a kitty cold. Professional word is that she'll be ok in a few weeks. Until then I have to deal with a tiny sneezy kitten.

This was actually the first federal election I got to vote in. From which I was filled with a great deal of civic pride. I'm so glad that our election resulted as it did with 4 parties and one independent candidate being elected into office. To be able to contrast our federal situation to the dismal chocolate/vanilla system south of the border gives me a great sense of... smug Canadianess. It will be interesting to see how a minority government will function in the country and how long it will last. I have high soaring idelaistic hopes however it may prove to be an absolutely dismal situation. Only time will tell. Still, getting my pride on and participating politically made me feel fantastic. What I saw last weekend felt like what I feel should be the prototype for the future. The world functioning as a complex dis-aggregate socially, politically and economically. Rather than an us-and-them, with-or-against oppositional view of the world.

Feel free to browse the uncensored and unedited camera dump of the weekend here all Apache .htaccess styles. Warning: there is a picture of a muscular black man's bum.

Comments

[chrisglass.livejournal.com]

Oh no you don't!
.htaccess diggin?
my ass!
I do what I want.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

I am too lazy to make things pretty today.

[mathan.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with you regarding the DJ set. Tribal is good, just not for, uh, how many hours worth?

I miss the days when you would get a nice range of music.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

I don't mind sets in the style of a genre. Just anthemic tribal stuff bores me to tears even when I'm drunk.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_decibel_/]

cool pics, hot guys and even a set of twins! rockin....

sounds like it was good weekend...even with the cranial perennials.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

It really ruled as pride in Toronto always seems to. Ever been up for it?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_decibel_/]

Toronto was the first Pride event that I ever attended back in 1996 when I was dating Phil. i saw things that titally blew my naieve little mind.

I loved it.. and I need to go back. Not just for pride, but to visit.

[bearringsd.livejournal.com]

OK, two things I <3 right now:

Jgrizz

red bears basking in sun

Thank you for sharing. I can carry on with my day now. :-)

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Yes, Kevin is one sexy motherfucker.

red beeeaaarrssssssssssssssssssssss........

[http://users.livejournal.com/_decibel_/]

red bears are tasty.

Re: red beeeaaarrssssssssssssssssssssss........

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

You're making me hungry ^_-

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

Awww, jgrizz looks so damned cute when he's unconsious!

Damned fun pics, hun -- but what was so interesting about the car that passed by in that movie? :: chuckle ::

P.S. : I misread, "Until then I have to deal with a tiny sneezy kitten," as, "Until then I have to deal with a tiny squeezy kitten." I was gonna SAY ...

[clauditorium.livejournal.com]

I love that photo of Mark, Dave, Kevin, and Dave (plus two guys I don't know in the background). Every one of them looks really great in it.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was a total snapshop and turned out like it was posed! It looks like the photo for some band from the 90s with everyone looking a different direction. Ask jgrizz about that... he has rules. Like the drummer looks towards the camera, singer has his back turned and everyone else looks towards the camera but with looks of total dis-interest.

[clauditorium.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought of it, but it's true - that totally looks like a band shot!

[fredneckteddy.livejournal.com]

You look purdy with them flowers on yer head :)

[gadzukes.livejournal.com]

Damn, I was so ready to go to the beefball but didn't know enough about it... had I known all the gorgeous guys would be there, I'd have put on a paper bag and joined in!

[shawnsyms.livejournal.com]

I really appreciated the sweet things that you said. Thank you.