Big Fat Hairy Living

I need someone to teach me how to be a good top. I’ve fucked a few asses in my time, but to be perfectly honest, I’m not very good at it. Almost all my experience in assfucking involves taking dick up my ass. I know what feels good, but that doesn’t make it very easy to do it myself.

I tried fucking someone the other day. It didn’t go too well, probably because he was a top and his ass was so tight that it was like trying to push vermicelli through a pinhole. Now that I think about it, the previous time I tried to fuck someone, he also hadn’t taken dick up his ass before. I need an experienced bottom to practise assfucking with.

The City of Toronto is trying out new garbage and recyling bins. The Toronto Star reports:

The new bins are smaller than the controversial MegaBins, which stand taller than 2 metres high and have space for advertising. The EcoBins are 1.5 metres high, 1.3 metres long and about 60 centimetres wide.

The MegaBins, which critics say block pedestrians and allow marketers to buy public space, have six containers for various types of waste, including recycling and cigarettes. Several also have slots for used batteries and green bin organics.

One of these “EcoBins” is at Church and Alexander, but despite the fact that it’s smaller than the “MegaBins,” it’s not much less of an eyesore. It also stores so little actual garbage that it’s constantly overflowing.

Words cannot describe how horrible these things look, and the “MegaBins” are even worse. Imagine tall billboards that are almost seven feet high, placed not so that the garbage and recycling receptacles are easy to access but so that drivers can see the ads. One of the “MegaBins” is located at Pape and Danforth:

The City of Toronto is considering littering our sidewalks with 1500 of these things, all for a “benefit” to the city of a mere $2 million a year. Interestingly, the Toronto Star article says that the company that would install these containers won a bidding process. It didn’t; it made a proposal to the City of Toronto to install these things to replace its current garbage containers. There was no competitive bidding.

Is our public space worth a mere $2 million? Tell the city what you think.

Pictures of Finch Avenue collapsing as a result of last Friday’s flash flooding. For those not in the know, Finch Avenue is a major arterial road in the northern part of the City of Toronto.

David Wilkins, US Ambassador to Canada, opens his mouth and causes trouble:

U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins says Canadian politicians should stop their “emotional tirades” and order the country’s trade representatives back to the bargaining table to reach a final settlement on softwood lumber.

In a meeting with the [Ottawa] Citizen editorial board, Mr. Wilkins said Canadian officials should embrace negotiations, rather than trade litigation, to settle the softwood dispute. Otherwise, he suggested, they risk a trade war with multiple fronts.

The Canadian government has been negotiating for years to no effect, and tribunal after tribunal has ruled in Canada’s favour. Perhaps the US government could live up to its obligations under the treaties it signs.

There’s some news on Martha Stewart’s new shows. Life is a good thing for Stewart:

There are no rolling hills and hens laying pastel-coloured eggs here like on her old show, Martha Stewart Living. Instead, a faux New York skyline fills in the background and makes a pretty picture behind the small greenhouse, complete with real plants.

Stewart seems to be making a real effort to be a people person. Taped segments will take her out to various New York venues, like the Shake Shack, where she loads up a hot dog, slops a milk shake and jokes to a patron surprised to see her working the counter that it was part of her community service.

The producers have cooked up various theme days (it’s no surprise the co-executive producer spent four years on The Rosie O’Donnell Show), like one where the entire audience will be made up of women — and a dog or two — named Martha Stewart.

Days from freedom, Stewart pitches new shows:

The studio full of reporters and photographers on Thursday got to take stock of the set for Martha, her syndicated weekday lifestyles show that premieres Sept. 12. It’s a sprawling dream of a Manhattan loft done up in signature Stewart tones, complete with a fully functioning kitchen and a garden area for growing houseplants.

“It’s a how-to show with entertainment and a live audience,” Stewart said. “It’s not a talk show — I don’t see a couch anywhere.”

She’s free in less than a week, and her daily talk show debuts on September 12.

I decided to walk home from the hospital instead of taking the subway. The city looks different early in the morning.

The technician at the sleep lab was a chubby young woman named Maria. I’m not sure exactly why, but chubby women set me at ease and make me feel comfortable in a way skinny women just can’t.

What is it about government offices that makes people who go to them think they’re entitled to be complete assholes? This morning I went to the Ontario Ministry of Health to get a replacement health card. A grey-haired old man in front of me was yelling at the clerk behind the desk that Paul Martin and Jean Chretien were what’s wrong with this country and that the federal government is stupid.

I have a sleep study tonight. It sucks partly because sleep studies suck inherently but mostly because I’m going to miss out on going to a party with Mark to meet Jack Layton and Marilyn Churley.