It is weird to go to see a giant gay pride festival in a futuristic city where most gay rights issues have been resolved. There was lots of crazy stuff to see and lots of tasty food.
That being said, I hate big cities. We almost killed each other on Saturday night as we were all so frustrated with crowds and what to do, etc. It is unreal crowded and overpopulated in Toronto. I could never live like that. The whole time I kept asking myself what would make it worth it to live in such a polluted, overpopulated place with personal space invading chinese women.
I can't believe how okay asian woman were with touching and pushing me to try and get around/ in front of me. I am tall and you can't see, I don't fucking care - I waited two hours for this spot, and I really don't want you to touch me. They would just nudge and push and elbow and wiggle. One woman just kept putting her elbow in my side and pushing constantly so she could cut me and get upfront.
Apparently, the chinese have a hard time understanding lines.
To establish the norm of waiting in line in public places, the Beijing government annunced on Thursday that the 11th day of every month will be the official "wait-in-line day." 
So back to the women, I just held my ground but eventually I was so sick of it I decided to up the battle. I ended up just turning towards woman so that in order to push wiggle around me, she would have to deal with my penis being all up on her - she was at about that height where it should have just freaked her the hell out. I thought, "This will definately stop her"
Nothing made this woman stop.
Finally, I was so sick of being pushed around that I elbowed her back in the side of the head and left the front row of watching the parade. It was mean but satisfying.
Living - They have like 7,000 of those new glass sky palaces they are trying to build all over Buffalo, it sees like everyone must live in a highrise.
Not having a camera with me was the most painful experience. I saw so much blogworthy stuff but none of it got recorded ;(
A land with most gay rights issues solved -
The focus of Gay Pride politics in Ontario now seems to be on transgender and adoptive rights.
Who am I to say what is acceptable or not but I am not in favor of tax payers paying for gender modification surgery. Then again I am not Canadian and we don't have socialized medicine.
Someone is going to blast me for this but it seems so unnecessary and that people should just learn to comfortable being what they are.
On one hand we, as gays, we fight so hard to get people to believe we should be able to be the way we are because we were born that way, but then transgendered people make being born a certain way a disposable, correctable situation.
Commercialism
I found this pic on Flickr when searching unde the tag "Toronto Pride 2007" I wanted to take a pic of it myself but I had no camera.
There was tons of commercial marketing. Look at how all the motorola boys looks the same. They are marketing the motorola red phone. They gave out tattoos so that other people could tattoo themselves with the motorola logo. At first I thought, who would do that, but a lot people did it. I a constantly amazed at people willingness to make themselves into advertising surfaces at no charge.
More: (i promise I'll stop soon)
The bigger problem is the AT&T network. In a Consumer Reports study, AT&T's signal ranked either last or second to last in 19 out of 20 major cities. My tests in five states bear this out. If Verizon's slogan is, "Can you hear me now?" AT&T's should be, "I'm losing you." [so what's this crap about 'fewest dropped calls'????]
Then there's the Internet problem. When you're in a Wi-Fi hot spot, going online is fast and satisfying.
But otherwise, you have to use AT&T's ancient EDGE cellular network, which is excruciatingly slow. The New York Times's home page takes 55 seconds to appear; Amazon.com, 100 seconds; Yahoo. two minutes. You almost ache for a dial-up modem. [ouch.]
well, the reviews i've seen are pretty glowing, but this is what kills me:
"Assuming Apple gets around to supporting 3G in the future, you'd ultimately have to buy a new 3G-capable iPhone for improved network performance, not that Apple is ready to announce one". I'm just afraid of shelling out $600 and then needing an upgrade in 6mo.
(then again, since when do I, of the 7 ipods, have a problem giving apple my money?)
then again, i doubt it's any slower than tmobile's internet, which is so cripplingly slow i just basically don't use it.
and the no-third-party-apps. i think the only thing my treo does that the iphone can't is my drug reference program. But I use that SO MUCH, that I will mean I have to go back to carrying two devices- phone and palm.
parallels rocks. I was on my work network the other day via VPN and it was just like being in the hospital.
I just went to an ATT store to ask my million-and-one iphone questions. Unfortunately the girl working there knew less than I did.
I read that there is no sim card, or if there is, you can't take it out, which is a bummer. b/c i was thinking if i switch, and i don't like it, i can just swap the sim into my collection of old phones. They didn't know anything about that . i asked if I could use the iphone plan (which is surprisingly cheap) on my treo... they didn't even know there WAS an iphone plan.
is it supposed to get that hot? i would think that kind of heat would not exactly be good for electronics...
that whole windows mac thing really freaks me out.