~*...last weekend in the big smoke...happy birthday mom!!!...*~

randnorm saturday event in black rock city 2005

astropups: pupy heaven
2:00pm-4:00pm
open for travelers ready to dream away those dusty trails. scientists will be on hand to prescribe the right medicine to get you ready for the night. dream catchers will be returning with the dreams they caught and sharing their stories with everyone. hosted by: astropups psychedelicatessen @ 7:30 and catharsis


photo by dan coplan

randnorm mind grenade
i wish i had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both dracula AND superman away. - jack handey

randnorm pikcha


normdate 8.5.6

i met up with jaqui, christina and her friend at zelda's last night for dinner. i love zelda's. i love these girlz.



my brother randnormly gifted me his old canon powershot g3 digital camera (thanks dood, you rawk!) so now i have a new toy to capture the world with. tonight was the first night i got to play with my new toy, so bear with me as i'm gettin used to all of the new fandangled settings. goodbye point and shoot...hello manual adjusty thingies ;)



christina's friend eric showed up at zelda's. i was glad to say goodbye to him. he is so fabulous (and his bf's name is also norm).


i left zelda's and headed to the library, the upstairs patio of the imperial pub on dundas, for my going away party. i'm gonna miss zelda's.


i randnormly ran into my friend tim before hitting the library, and he accompanied me to the patio. he asked me if i had only invited women to my going away party as the only people there were radiant goddesses. teehee, i keep some beautiful people in my life.





as the evening progressed, more people showed up (including boyz), and we proceeded to get shmammered.



our krew included a good number of toronto burnerz too. t.o. burnerz are good shit, and i can't wait to celebrate with them again at home in black rock city.


amazon, i can't believe you aren't going to the burn this year. you will be missed!

by the time last call hit i was fukkin anihilated. goddam booze! next stop was a free randnorm jungle party underneath a bridge at bathurst and front street. gawd i love toronto.

i jumped into a cab with mark, baby g, and my friend jess and headed to the party. we had to cross yonge street, which was crazy busy thanks to caribana celebrations. yes, this weekend toronto turns into one big hip hop video.


the party was bumpin, and underneath a bridge...a bridge for gawd's sake! i was pretty annihilated, so i wasn't in the most dancing of moods. christina showed up right as the party was ending, so jess, christina and i jumped on the bathurst blue light special bus and headed north.

at bloor street we parted ways. thanks for celebrating my last friday night in toronto jess! then it was time to goodbye to christina. i have had the best summer of my life, and spending time with christina was one of the reasons why. i love you christina, and words cannot describe how much i'm going to miss you when i'm gone.

as i held christina in my arms, she whispered in my ear "i love you to death and beyond." we shared one last kiss and then parted ways.

i woke up this morning at my sister's place with the biggest hangover. holy shit alcohol is a fucked up drug. i sluggishly packed up my things and headed to the subway. thank you thalia for everything, for opening up your home to me, for feeding me, for putting up with my shit. i'm going to miss you when i'm gone.

i met up with some friend's of my mom at scarborough town center who drove me to whitby where my mom was holding her birthday celebrations and food fiesta. holy shit there were a lot of people there, and even more food! and here i thought i knew a lot of people.



music was provided by a talented steel drum player.


did i mention how much food there was?


when it comes to celebrations, my mom don't joke! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! i'm so glad i was able to celebrate your birthday with you.

thalia was heading back to toronto, so i said my goodbyes. i really do love my sister. we get along pretty well, despite our differences. we get silly together, understand each other's ridonculous nuances, and laugh a lot together. i'm going to miss you thalia. perhaps i'll see you in calgary when you're there for kevin's wedding.

the party ended around 7pm, so i helped my mom clean up the house and then passed out. daam this hangover kicked the shit out of me.

thanks to everyone who made it out last night for my going away party. i'm going to miss you guys somethin fierce when i'm gone.

lively up yours'elf

~*...normaste...*~

~*...saying goodbye to the people i love...*~

randnorm thursday event in black rock city 2005

recess!
3:00pm-4:00pm
time to run around, scream 'n' shout, and make as much noise as humanly possible. bring your loudest pots, pans, spoons, drums, cowbells, hammers, etc. red rover, capture the flag, and tag will revive your latent hyperactivity. hosted by: elation station @ 9:00 and amnesia

photo of twinkie henge by lady bee


randnorm mind grenade
"the secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - albert einstein

randnorm pikcha

photo by reuters

normdate 3.8.6

i spent last night with the most radiant of goddesses. of course i'm talking about christina. have i mentioned how much i love myself when i'm around this woman?



she makes me feel perfekt about myself, and that is one of the most valuable gifts anyone has ever given me. it means that if i am to ever entertain the possibility of being with someone, they have to make me feel as perfekt if not more than christina makes me feel for me to be with them.



we began our evening with drinks at the embassy in kensington. then we hit pho pasteur on spadina for dinner. we ended up at a bar called wide open where we ran into one of christina's friends and spent the rest of the evening enjoying libations and each other's company.



the bartender at wide open was also hawt. had to take a pik of the goddesses near me.


so if i love this girl so much, why am i leaving? good question, and a simple answer...i'm leaving because i choose to. there is a huge world out there that i am so excited to explore. i know that christina loves me, and she knows i love her. our paths will cross again in the future. until that happens, the world awaits the both of us.

i had dinner plans at darryl and isa's place tonight. isa's older brother daniele was there too. daam the good looks run in that family.



so it makes sense that daniele's partner remi is also beyond beautiful.


after eating an incredible meal of jerk salmon, and drinking goat roti (a red wine)...


i passed out at darryl and isa's place. i love you guys. i will miss you when i'm gone. you mean so much to me. keep on spreading light, and raising your little angel valentina.



love and blessings

~*...normaste...*~

~*...goodbye dredi knight staff...*~

randnorm tuesday event in black rock city 2005

grave
11:22pm-6:22am
grave is a goth rave. hosted by:igs village / kamp krotus @esplanade and 9:30

photo by julian cash

randnorm mind grenade
give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

randnorm pikcha


normdate 7.31.6

after a refreshing retreat away at my mom's place in whitby, i returned to the big smoke last night where i ran into john and sue. i helped john out with a home that he is renovating for the television show he's filming that airs in october.

i got to play with power tools too...hoorah!


got to play the fps prey on john's xbox 360. looks so goddam sweet on his 50" dell flat panel tv.


thanks for your hospitality john and sue. i love you guys.

i had plans to meet up with my friend kally today in the market. i woke up at john and sue's place and was about to head out when i realized that my staff was gone. it was in their kitchen by the front door last night, but it wasn't there. there was a lot of old furniture in the kitchen that was picked up this morning on its way to the dump. i hope they didn't take my staff. so i called and left a mesage on john's phone to see if they moved my staff.

holy fuck it was hot out today. i met up with kally at the korean grill house on queen and enjoyed an incredible meal of all you can eat meat. gawd i love that place.



after lunch we headed to kensington market to soak up the vibes of the most multiculturally diverse neighbourhood in the world. kensington rawks!



we ended up at the wading pool of kensington park. it was a hawt day so of course the pool was full of little kids...and two big kids ;)



the pool wasn't necessarily big enough to swim in, but we didn't care. it was fukkin hawt, and wading in a pool was an excellent way to beat the heat.





it was awesome seeing you again kally. i love hanging with you. send my love to maya ;)

after my wikkid afternoon with the goddess kally, i headed over to darryl and isa's place to chill out. out friend karen dropped by and i headed to allen gardens with her to hang out and throw around a frisbee. man, i haven't played enough frisbee this season. i haven't even played a single ultimate game :(

karen's motorcycle is hawt shit.


tell me what you eat and i'll tell you what u r.


hooray bacon!

hooray ciuppi!


hooray hawt chixxx on bikes...who are also veterinarians *drool*


after an awesome day with awesome goddesses (kally, isa, karen), i headed back to john and sue's place to face some bad news. my staff was mistaken for garbage, taken to the dump and is gone :( i guess it wasn't meant to be. that staff had become such a part of my personality, a part of me. i took it everywhere, walking with it, spinning it, encouraging others to ask about it. "hey, what's with the staff." it was gifted to me in winlaw almost three months ago, and now its gone. i miss you staff. i guess it wasn't meant to be *sob* i know, i'm all upset about a staff...but it was powerful and very special to me. the bark was taken off of it by a beaver for gawd's sake! i carved an om, the mayan symbol for warrior and the symbol for the wizard into it with a dremmel. yah, i know, i sound like a suck, but it was more than just a piece of wood to me. it was a part of me. i'm going to miss you dredi knight staff. we've been through so much together in such a short period of time.





































i got so used to walking with it, spinning it, wielding it, that it actually feels like i'm missing a limb. ok, maybe not that extreme, but it still fukkin sucks. perhaps an even more appropriate staff will make its way to me soon. if i knew where the dump was, and if it hadn't been dumped into a large 60ft hole in the ground, i'd be there searching for my staff tomorrow. but i've got to accept that its gone, and all that i have left are memories and pikchaz.

*sob*

~*...normaste...*~