This year was much tamer than last year. Oe I should say I was much tamer. The Market Arcade venue was really great as we're the DJs. The venue was almost too big with all the floors. It seems like it might have been better to just have 1 floor and have the drink tickets closer to the drinks and the gambling tickets closer to the baskets. I also think the event could do with some salty/carb based drinking snacks like pretzels or chips.

Holy crap, we cleaned up the prize baskets. I think we won 7 of them. Not so much by luck but by sheer ticket volume and the fact that not a lot of other people were betting at the volume we were. It was almost embarrassing to win so many times. I now own a whip, some clothes, gift certificates to a lot of places, a asian manger, two womens dildos lol, some scarves, a purse, some earings, hydraulic hearth restaurant gift cert, some lesbians porn with nuns, some skin care supplies, dog bed and snacks, and a laser plastic surgery $250 gift cert.

We actually gave away a lot of the prizes. I collected some of the remaining ones into a picture.

I finally won the thing I actually wanted, the laser plastic surgery gift certificate I wanted so bad last year. I have this little capillary I hate on my lip. Discussing with everyone, no one else ever noticed. Now hopefully, I won't have to notice it either.

It's amazing how much people exaggerate on their LinkedIn.

I had them on in almost every picture in the album of my brothers early years.

It seems like they would kill him if they were real.

We went to Nocturnal Commission's Total Request Rave 9 at the Opera House in Toronto on Saturday Night.



(e:Terry)'s friend from High School was DJing as the super half of superjack at the party which made it extra exciting. Its been many years since I saw a truly happy hardcore event of that magnitude go off.

We dance until the early hours of the morning and then slept at the hotel until just before we had to leave.













In the morning we went to brunch on church street at Sambuscas , I love the eggs natasha at the place we went to. Their food is so good.

We attended a very intimate gathering of Sameer and Jessica's friends at Merge on Deleware for dinner to celebrate their wedding engagement.

The food was amazing and Jessica's friends were so great. The decorations were all hand made and in such beautiful detail.

I wish the lovely couple the best luck at their wedding in Vegas later this month.







We all got fortune cookies. This was my fortune, lol.

Is this product placement in this war photo? Please say it isn't.

I have to question, if this is really the capital of Islamic State territory, why is there a pepsi machine to begin with?

Voice Of America - US-Led Strikes Hit Islamic State 'Capital'

I totally just made this up but it was delicious.

INGREDIENTS:
Some small squids cleaned
sliced very ripe pear
cinnamon to sprinkle on top
8 cloves
1 cut up garlic clove in slices
olive oil like, maybe like 2 tsp
1 tbsp of fig jam stirred into a tsp of water, dump it on top
herb salt sprinkled on top

Put it all in a glass pan and broil on low in middle lf oven till cooked. Like 10 minutes max. at about 5 minutes you can move it up higher, flip the squid and sprinkle more cinnamon if you want.

Put the squid on toasted roll, eat with side of something like celery or cut up cucumber.

We hung out with Jeremy and decided to exercise a lot by walking around town to dance events. The night before thanksgiving is a huge party night because so many people don't have to work in the morning.

First we went to Skateland on East Ferry for a techno skate party. The ring was pretty cool but the wood track was much less upkept than rainbow rink. The layout was nice. They had an adult ring and a kids ring with a concession area in between.

Based on the thousands of pictures on the wall, spanning the last 4 decades, I think we may have been among some of the only white people to ever set foot inside this place. That is if I even count (e:paul,46788). I couldn't decide if that made it progressive or if it was some sort of gentrification issue because it didn't appear to be a blending of new people in an existing space with the existing crowd but more of a complete takeover.

Generally, I enjoyed it until the end when I saw some women go up to the door man to say what a great time they had.

He started to tell a story about how he was the bodyguard for Luther Vandross until Luther told him he wanted to become a woman and then he went onto this tirade about how god wanted him to be a man not a woman and how terrible queer people are.

It was definately the wrong crowd for that. The women started arguing with him about how love is love.

He said he doesn't understand why we can't just put them gays on an island somewhere so they wouldn't bother him and could keep to themselves. At that point I decided he was not worth my time to argue with him and how this idea of geographical boundaries for different groups of people would allow me to leave the metaphorical island I was on and cross main street river where I wouldn't even have to recognize that people like him exist.

The last thing I heard him say as I was leaving was how two gay men are like two dogs fighting but two lesbians are like two kittens fighting over a rose on a silk blanket. Whatever the fuck that means. Straight men's acceptance of lesbians as some sort of straight man sexual fantasy confuses me so much.

After that we walked home to wash our feet because the skates stank so bad, they don't even spray them. Then we walked to Milkies on elmwood and Utica for a dance party. Most of the music was great and the wooden dance floor is pretty cool, we danced till about 3am when the music turned into a combo of dubstep and death metal.

My only reservation with Milkies is that place makes me mega allergic. I think it's once people start dancing on the carpet it releases the dust and mold spores from all the spilled drinks. At least that is my theory. Maybe just a lot of cat hair people showed up. It got so bad I needed an inhaler by the next morning.

Afterwards we hit up Lloyd and I had the big Lloyds burrito. It tastes so damn good. At least it did at the moment. It's basically a beef burrito with pickles, onions and a sauce that tastes very much like whatever they put on a big mac.

The food was delicious as always. I wish I was not allergic to live animals.