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Tronna (Peektures of where I belong)

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Toronto: Dundas Subway, originally uploaded by Christian E. Peterson.

I miss you :(



End of an Era, originally uploaded by Rabblefish.

You, too.



Foggy Lake Devo, originally uploaded by sssteve.o.

This, big time.



Eaton Centre, originally uploaded by Ron Wilson.

Even this.

Sigh.

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Activity on All Levels, originally uploaded by Hazelbrae.

Randomly came across some pictures of Yonge & Dundas, Toronto today. Homesick! I only lived there (right fucking there — I was going to school at Ryerson) for a year, but I lived within an hour of the city my entire life, before moving to the states. I lived in the middle of nowhere from grade 2 onward, but my earliest years were spent in suburbs of the city, and sub-suburbs of the city. So I never did feel at home in the country. Toronto was always the place to be, and it’s the one place where I always felt like I belonged. I definitely didn’t feel at home after I met Sean and moved to Indiana, and while things are better in Chicago (at least it’s urban), it still doesn’t feel like a place where I belong. Not even after several years. I just don’t grok this city. It doesn’t make sense to me. The people just aren’t my kind of people. I couldn’t even say why, but for whatever reason, I just can’t meld. It’s disorganized. It’s ugly. It’s… freakin’ boring! For being the transportation hub of America, you’d think there’d be more damned culture convening here. But the art and music scenes seem pretty weak. All that being the center of the friggin’ nation seems to be doing for this city is attracting countless boring-ass business conferences. It saddens me. I can see myself in San Francisco. Maybe New York. Definitely back in Toronto. But this city is a wasteland. Somebody prove me wrong. Where is the life? All I see are Trixies and Chads in the loop, posers on Clark & Belmont, hipster douchebags in Wicker Park, tourists at every major intersection, junkies and gangbangers in my neighbourhood, and nobody worth mentioning anywhere else. Is there anyone around here who isn’t into fixed-gear bikes, vegan or raw food diets, yoga (or yoga pants), PBR, The North Face, New Balance, sushi, iPods, indie music, Whole Foods, alternative medicine, ridiculously large sunglasses, pompadour ponytails, or the Cubs around here? Please, give me hope. And why don’t any of you fucking Trixies have blogs that I can laugh at? Twats in every other city have figured out the internet. Chicago’s Blogerati (are there any I should bother caring about?) are light years behind.

End rantble.

Dear dumbshit cat owner

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Pfffttttt I don’t like carrots!, originally uploaded by Lindsay =).

Your cat is an obligate carnivore. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about that:

An obligate or true carnivore is an animal that must eat meat in order to thrive. Hypercarnivores present specialized dentition for a meat-only diet. They may consume other products presented to them, especially animal products like eggs and bone marrow or sweet sugary substances like honey and syrup, but, as these items are not essential, they do not consume these on a regular basis. True carnivores lack the physiology required for the efficient digestion of vegetable matter, and, in fact, some carnivorous mammals eat vegetation specifically as an emetic. The domestic cat is a prime example of an obligate carnivore, as are all of the other felids.

In light of this information, please tell me why you would purposefully select cat food containing ingredients such as “brown rice and garden greens” or anything featuring a large picture of carrots and other shit cats don’t eat on the front over other foods? And why are you willing to pay extra for something your cat is much more to redecorate your living room carpet with?

Nevermind. I’ll tell you why. It’s because you’re retarded, and you think your cat is people. Your cat is not people. Your cat does not give a damn about whether its chicken is served florentine. It eats bugs, for fucks sake. Purina et al. know that you’re an idiot, and there’s been hundreds of years of research put into working out just how to reel you it. So the crap comes in a green-colored (“natural”, “healthy”) can, and looks good enough in the photos that you’d almost eat it yourself. Which is just more evidence for how stupid you are. What kind of moron eats cat food? When your cat dreams, it is not dreaming of uprooting delicious beets. But here you are, drooling over poulty by-product.

The cat food companies know that you’re so stupid that you’ll won’t have a problem paying their premium sucker surcharge. You’ll do it willingly. You’ll go out of your way to pay it! Even though that food probably cost them less to make, what with all the extra filler they put in there. And, just to amuse themselves a little bit more with your stupidity, they went ahead advertised the fact that their “gourmet” food is full of extra non-nutritive filler in big fat letters right on the very front. Because if you’re weren’t a dumbshit, that’s what “with brown rice” would mean to you. But you are a dumbshit. You dumbshit.

Irresponsibility

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Broken, originally uploaded by Wallaceh.

Yeah, yeah. The environment. Whatever. I’d cut back on electricity and such, except that my landlord pays the electric bill. Since we pay him the same amount of rent every month, cutting back on electricity just means I’m not getting my money’s worth (he cited rising electric costs as one of the reasons our rent increased at the beginning of the year), and I’m putting extra money in his pocket. Which I will not have. Absolutely not.

Besides… I do pay my own gas bill. Turning off the lights or plugging in CFLs just means less wasted heat. I rely on that wasted heat to keep my furnace from running all day long in the winter. I don’t wanna pay for that crap. So hurray for inefficiency!