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In spite of the intermittent showers and predicted thunderstorms, Lizbot is watching the Pride Parade in downtown Toronto. She sent us a few pictures by phone.
The bike for AIDS riders:
Parents of gays:
Jack Layton, our Member of Parliament:
That’s equivalent to a Congressman in the U.S.
Al Giordano sends a report on a concert in New York on May 3rd celebrating Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday. He looks damn good for 90. Go, Pete!
Hat tip to Michael Mussington, who sent me the link.
The kittycat is not amused by his Christmas costume.
more funny cats
Christmas lights are derived from candles meant to remind the sun to come back and stop making the days shorter. The bulbs represent fruits that pagans used to tie to tree branches so that the trees wouldn’t forget to bear fruit.
more funny cats
When was the last time you saw a presidential candidate – or any politician, for that matter, bringing in the traditional “co-worker’s cupcake” for someone’s birthday?
Yet here’s Barack Obama bringing Joe Biden a cupcake for his birthday on November 20.
Well, I slept through swimming practice last week but I started my walking program. I meant to start with 3 – 5 km walks, but on Hallowe’en night I stayed out late, walked visitors to their hotel, then strolled through downtown Toronto looking at people in their Hallowe’en costumes on College Street. When I got to the subway it was closed. So I went on to Church street and found an even denser concentration of Hallowe’en whimsy. By the time I was finished there it was only a couple more miles to home, so I kept going. The total was just over six miles or 10 km.
I mapped it on Gmap Pedometer.
This site has some unusually carved Hallowe’en pumpkins:
Some people attending the Burning Man celebration in Nevada left early in the wake of a dust storm. The storm began early Saturday afternoon and continued into the evening. More than 49,000 people attended the counter-culture festival in the Black Rock Desert.
<– Dust bunny
The annual Summerlicious festival is a chance for people to try new restaurants without spending a fortune. It’s been going since July 4 and it will be going on until July 20.
