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  • Sult In The Park

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    My restaurant (Sult) was supposed to sell food at a park festival this weekend. Problems started when the food inspectors showed up. They shut us down because our ‘meat on ice’ system was not cool enough (literally, the meat was too hot). So I got the day off and we turned our area into a beer garden.

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  • Holmenkollen

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    Holmenkollen is the site of a massive ski jump that can be seen for miles. It has been rebuilt for ski championships and olympics again and again. Norway just got the World Ski Champs for 2011 and there is talk of doing it all again.

    You can go right up to the top and the view is incredible — you can see all of oslo. In the base is a ski museum with skis over 1000 years old. There is also a funny ski simulator that is kinda crap and this picture of a guy skiing at the olympics wearing a tie. So cool.

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    The Streets – Memento Mori

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  • Btiz Bar

    Pronounced “beh’tiz”. This is a nice spot for good music but it gets rammed after 12. They have this blue siren that goes off and signals cheap shots at the bar for the next moment.

    And — Keeping on the Nelly Furtado tip, here she covers Gnarls Barkley.

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  • Palace Grill

    That’s Kat’s friend Heidi and Me. And she thinks that she’s the one who looks bad in photos. I like how it looks like I have a little ‘stash or goatee or something going on.

    Also:

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    This song is all over Norway right now. Its great to see Canadians get huge on the international scale. Nelly Furtado – Maneater
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  • Nature in Norway

    IMPORTANT NEWS UPDATE:

    Baby ducks, horses and cats — also cute in Norway. Possibly cute in other regions aswell.

    Rainbows are also still considered “awesome” pretty much everywhere.

    Zach Slootsky, Oslo

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  • Barongsai

    Ohhhhh shit. We found it. Hip hop in Norway.

    This place is small and downstairs, but people who go here like hip hop, and I like people who like hip hop. They also play rap music here, which I enjoy aswell. There was also this old guy who was going crazy on the dancefloor before anyone else was dancing. You can see him behind me in one of these photos. (more…)

  • Oslo By Day

    Oslo is pretty great when it’s sunny out. Maybe not when you are sleeping (see above), but it is nice to see everyone come out and enjoy the weather when it permits. (more…)

  • Frognerparken

    As soon as you see the gate to the park, the scale of it is obvious. This park is massive and monumental. I took a walk through it the other day and I was blown away. If it were in Canada it would be pot smoking location #1. But, since pot here is practically heroin it was only full of asian tourists, Norwegians “enjoying the weather” and no pot smoking Canadians.
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  • Gloria Flames – Drinking in Oslo

    We went drinking at some friends place for another friends birthday and then went out with many friends to some bar where we stayed for half a beer (roughly the time it takes kat to drink a vodka sprite and a shot). (more…)

  • 17 Mai

    So Kat is a tad more Norwegian than any of us ever thought. (more…)

  • Flying To Norway

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    I had three planes. The first picture is from over Norway. The Second wing pic is over the UK and the third is over Finland.

  • Bye Bye Bistro

    So I appologize, because I have so many photos to upload and I am just such a lazy bastard that I havn’t posted any of them.

    Tonight was madness. I didn’t have a camera but I will just list the people I saw and you can imagine photos of them. Julia, Jocie, Amy, Brooker, Emma, Evan J. Aiden, Tom M., Lana A., Rhys, Maddy M-L, Nebu, Raymi, Devin, Noah C., Ummmmmmm and probably some other people.

    But without further aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa do… the photos from Bye Bye Bistro:

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  • Adicolor Party

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    Adicolor Toronto was pretty fun. The bartenders were a little sassy, but they were giving away free beer–so what-evs. They got one of the guys from Fighting and some other artist-guy to do up custom adicolor t-shirts. What else? Oh ya, those Keith Haring shoes are hot.
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  • The God Damned Maddy

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  • BBQ At Duncans

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    Yo, where’s the beef!?

  • Colbert At The White House

    YouTube took down the video of Colbert roasting Bush due to “copyright infringement” but you can still watch it over at Crooks and Liars here.

    And here is a link to a high quality version via BitTorrent.

  • Magic Drinks

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  • The Newspaper’s New Web Site

    I’ve been working on The Newspaper’s new website. It’s all up and running now. Check it out.

  • Mexican Fiesta

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    Apparently I was the only one who got the whole “this is a Mexican themed party” memo. I shaved special for the event and I even wore sandals–well I tried at least. I accidently brought two left feet. Who knew that taking two pairs of free Malibu branded flip-flops would ever have a downside? Up ’till now those sandals have been, pretty much, non-stop amazing. I know they blew my socks off.

  • Toronto Loves Kenny vs. Spenny

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    Kenny vs. Spenny is quite possibly the funniest Toronto-born comedy on TV since Kids In The Hall. Filmed here, KVS pits “best friends” Kenny Hotz and Spencer “Spenny” Rice against each other in a number of oddball competitions. The contests range from ‘Who Can Stay Naked The Longest’, to ‘Who Do Kids Like The Most’. The lloser gets humiliated on television in a manner of the winner’s choosing.

    As popularity for the show grows, the two stars are finding themselves recognized more and more. Kenny, for example, is at the awkward celebrity phase of not being able to skip the line at The Boat, while the entire line recognizes him and congratulates him on his fine show. “It’s getting crazy. But people are very nice,” says Spenny.

    The show originally aired on CBC but never really found its place there. Eventually the show was pulled and later adopted by Showcase. Spenny explains, “the show was too wild for CBC. Once they accidentally ran one of our promos in the toddler block and they received a lot of complaints.”

    Recently returning to Toronto to film the third season of KVS, Spenny and Kenny were kind enough to answer a few questions I had for them. I warn you, some of the answers they gave were quite offensive. (more…)

  • The Gamekillers

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    Me and Kat met the gamekillers last night. The new Axe campaign has this whole ‘bigger than just a commercial’ thing going on. They played a funny short film about one guy getting his game killed-on, over the course of five dates.

    But the real celebrities: Mr. Open Bar and Mrs. Artichoke Dip!

  • House-Sitting

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    I guess we were also kind of cat-sitting. That there in the orange is Watson.

  • Preloved

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    These pics are a few days late, but still worth posting. It was the same day that we drank in Trinity Bellwoods. Afterwards we hit a party at Preloved. Shit Le Merde DJ’d and some band played also. They served some sangria, two flavours of St. Ambroise, and some vegitarian snacks.

  • Luke Gets Medieval On Our Asses

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    me·di·e·val also me·di·ae·val – Pronunciation Key (md-vl, md-, m-dvl)
    adj. also Medieval

    1. Relating or belonging to the Middle Ages.
    2. Informal. Old-fashioned; unenlightened: parents with a medieval attitude toward dating.

  • Party Posse

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  • Holy Trinity

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    It seems that drinking in the park season is now on. Oh sweet sweet Trinity Bellwoods.

  • All the covers.

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    I’m finally done my year at the newspaper. Look at all the pretty covers.
    My two favs are of course, the most recent one, and the beer issue. The most recent one is the travel collage.

  • Happy Birthdays

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  • Zoe’s Art Show Was Rad

    Zoe paints by numbers

    Also: Water is wet and puppies are cute.

  • Did YOU Get The Memo?

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    It’s always a delight to see what art Toronto’s newest talent is producing. Student shows, while sometimes hit or miss, are often worth the time. Whether it’s the excitement of seeing their work on the wall for the first time, or that their spirits haven’t yet been crushed by the reality of the art world, artwork made by young people has a certain freshness that is often lacking from more mature artists. That’s why tonight I’m going to be attending the opening reception of the U of T Visual Studies thesis class’s end-of-year show, “Memoranda”.

    “For the last year, third and fourth year students enrolled in U of T’s Visual Studies program have been working collaboratively to organize an exhibition of their artwork, ” writes Elizabeth Underhill in her article for U of T’s student rag, The Newspaper.

    “Memoranda” is on display at 30 St Clair Ave. W. Suite 103, from 11am-5pm, and officially opens Saturday April 8 from 5pm-11pm with an introduction by Associate Chair of Visual Studies Lisa Steele. “Memoranda” continues from 11am-5pm, April 11th,12th and 13th, and closes on the 15th .

    Originally on blogTO

  • Bunny and Kitty

    In case anyone else wants me and my girlfriend as their desktop (which would be weird).

  • Incredible Machines!


  • Cam’s Birthday

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    Thursday night was spent celebrating another year of Cam, taking long exposure photographs, and crawling Queen. I think I ran into every single customer I’ve ever served. I guess they all eat on college and party on queen. Hip!

  • Omy, it’s Kenny

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    Saw Kenny on the roof of the drake talking to some rich looking people. He said he had just gotten back to Toronto to film the third season of Kenny vs. Spenny. I was downstairs at the Omy, Magazine launch party and had come up for a smoke.

  • More Images From The Elmo

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  • Mouse Gets Revenge On Centipede!

  • Breathing Class Brand Launches

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    Although their website is still being constructed, Breathing Class — the newest kids on the Toronto clothing design block — are selling a limited sample run of T-Shirts to anyone smart enough to ask.

    Here are some photos from their release party.

    Until their website jumps off, you can order the shirts via email. To see the available T’s check out their MySpace page. It looks as if they’ve sold out of their men’s sizes, so this might be a female-only affair until further notice.


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  • City Hall is Under Attack!

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    Actually it’s not under attack. It looks like Toronto’s City Hall is being used in yet another blockbuster movie. You may remember it being blown to pieces in Resident Evil 2.

    Read the rest of the post on blogTO.

  • Jet Fueled

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    It was as if they were afraid we wouldn’t be able to finish 14 kegs fast enough so they equiped us with these massive cups. They had to be two pints of awesome at the least. The party wasn’t quite as nuts as last year where the 13 kegs were done by 11. I think it might have been a younger scene this year and maybe younger people don’t know how to drink beer.

    Here are some more photos.

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  • Jet Fuel Kegger

    Tonight I’m going to the massive kegger at Jet Fuel with Kat and Janek and maybe some others. I’ll post pics of course. For now, here are pics from last year and the year before. It’s their 14th year which means 14 kegs. 12 and 13 were pretty out of hand.

  • Elmo Combo

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    We went to this private birthday party at the el macombo friday night. I didn’t know the birthday girl and I’m not sure I ever met her. The party was in this nice back room at the elmo on the second floor. There were these loverly drapes and couches and plastic martini cups. The DJ said he would do requests but couldn’t even show me his record collection.

    There were some odd people there, people from wayback at UFA. Jon Santos and Nick Piggot were there and that guy who Emily England dated for a while.

  • Happy Birthdays!

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    These three mofos just had birthdays and I didn’t see any of them. I am a bad friend. Happy birthday guys!

  • Heia Norge!

  • Back On BlogTO

    blogtoI’m writing for blogTO again because I need new fun ways to procrastinate now that this website is mostly done. You can always see a list of all my posts here or find of feed of them here.

    Each story also shows up on the News section on this site aswell.

  • Giant Centipede Eats Mouse


    This is the freakiest shit I have ever seen. I do not do giant insects.
    via Digg

  • Video From The Annie Concert

  • The Annie Crew

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  • Annie

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  • 2006-2003

    There have been various versions of this website over the years

    …and they have archives too

  • Some Images From Midtown

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    We went to Midtown the other night again. I dressed like a gangsta to blend in. Kat took this amazing shot of me at the peak of gangstaness.