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It's Tuesday June the 19 around 8:31PM and

Notes From Toronto Part Deux

24 hours until I return to the west coast. This is the 2nd of no doubt regular ventures to Toronto this year and you bet your ass I'll share my stupid thoughts.

1. Great breakfast was had at Rustic Cosmo Cafe. There seems to be some debate about it at various places, but the cowboy breakfast was good. The pancake was the highlight. Certainly the constant hotel breakfast for 10 days had something to do with my joy here.

2. Really have no idea why on a Saturday night the Midi Bistro was near empty. The food was great, the music sufficiently jazzy, and the place ad-or-able. One member of our party thought the Faux-Filet Grille was tofu. What a burn, 'cause it was tasty striploin with heeps of garlic butter and pesto. Serve with delicious Cotes du Rhone and Bob can certainly be your uncle.

3. Saw Toronto Blue Jays lose to Washington nationals. Enjoyed Frank Thomas hitting his 496 career homerun. Enjoyed that one player had Coolio's Gangstas Paradise as his intro music. Seriously, Coolio. That is amazing. Wish I was sitting in the action seats where two of the cutest girls ever serve you stuff in black cocktail dresses.

4. Learned that last Saturday might have been Goth Pirate Day on Queen Street West, with the amount of frilly shirts and stuff. No eye patches, but close enough. Freakshow. ARRRGGGHHH.

5. Much Music Video Awards are fairly lame.

6. Lake Ontario jokes. Although I can't think of any.

7. Not enough Starbucks. Seriously, there are so few per square mile that they tend to have lines out there door. This is madness. I'm a block from work here and there is only one.

8. The Royal Ontario Museum has a shiny new entrance. Other than that, most everything else is closed inside, well unless you need to see a bunch of greek sculptures of bearded men. Which is cool. Not $20 cool. On the plus side the girls working there were delightful. Who knew blue blazers were so cool. PS: Oh, and Daniel Libeskind, your $12,500 chairs, while funky and comforatable, are built for Dr. Evil and are completely smug. More at Torontoist.

9. At some point, missing Vancouver clearly, I watched an amazing episode of Beverly Hills 90210 called "Things to do on a rainy day." It featured the completely stomach churning 90's boy band Color Me Badd. Don't believe me? Watch this video. Wow.

10. Tie: That Wayne Gretsky should not be in the restuarant business just as surely as I should not play hockey. And the feelings I have about Gretsky's rival the feelings about this store in a small mall here that was pimping an amazing service. It's called Woven Moments, and if you can imagine the thrill of products "proudly woven in the Blue Ridge Mountaints of North Carolina" and photos of your dogs being made into tapestry wall hangings, then you can imagine the greatest tri-fold brochure in the known universe! Business in the front. And clearly Party in the back. Enjoy.