Canada experienced history in the making this past weekend.
Saturday.- Jenna Talackova became the first transgender woman to compete in a major Canadian beauty pageant and she not only finished in the Top 12 but was voted Miss Congeniality.
Sunday: For the first time in history a horse nicknamed “The Duchess of Cornwall” touched Canadian soil on board a plane.
Tags: humor, Jenna Talackova, royal visit
Let’s go girls!
I’m going out tonight-I’m feelin’ alright
Gonna let it all hang out (pardon the pun!)
Wanna make some noise-really raise my voice
Yeah, I wanna scream and shout
No inhibitions-make no conditions
Get a little outta line
I ain’t gonna act politically correct
I only wanna have a good time
The best thing about being a woman
Is the prerogative to have a little fun and…
Oh, oh, oh, go totally crazy-forget I’m a lady (pardon the pun, again!)
Men’s shirts-short skirts
Oh, oh, oh, really go wild-yeah, doin’ it in style
Oh, oh, oh, get in the action-feel the attraction
Color my hair-do what I dare
Oh, oh, oh, I wanna be free-yeah, to feel the way I feel, way i feel
Man! I feel like a woman!
By the way. The “real winner” of the coveted title Miss Universe Canada 2012, was this lady below, Sahar Biniaz.
Unfortunately for you dear, nobody really gives a crap!
Tags: Jenna Talackova, Miss Universe Canada, news
Aisilin’s Cartoon from “The Gazette” could not be any more assertive.
Frankly my dear, “I don’t give a damn!”
Tags: Montreal, student unrest
You really do not know what you have until you loose it.
Believe it or not, yes, this is my opinion of yesterday’s incident at the Montreal Metro where we were held hostages at the mercy of “fucking punks”, yes, I said it, which caused the disruption of the subway system in the island at morning rush hour.
How much is the subway missed when we don’t have it. Specially during a chaotic Thursday rainy morning where it looks like the end of the world is coming:
“I ll take crappy, smelly, dirty, and overpriced underground public transportation system for $200dls, Alex!”
Anytime.
Yes the disruption of the metro system last morning made me realize how very little we take for granted the things we somewhat criticize the most specially on month’s end when we have to renew our monthly OPUS pass which bleds our wallet of $75dls.
But what hurt me the most was the fact that I had found FREE parking next to the Metro Station, FREE PARKING on a Thursday rainy morning! You don’t get to see that in Montreal very often.
For a moment I had the sudden stupid idea of driving downtown with hopes of saving myself the chaotic trouble of taking the alternative buses and leaving my blessed parking spot.
“I will take gullible ideas for $300 dls, Alex!”
But then again, though buses might be a little cleaner, safer, and the odds of sitting in front of a man jerking off are much less than in the metro…
“I will finish the category of crappy, smelly, dirty, and overpriced underground public transportation system for $800 dls, Alex”!
…I decided to keep my free parking space and jumped into the adventure of taking an STM bus. Nothing has changed in years, same smell, same old crowd, like a comradeship of users who will never move on to the world of $1.45 a liter.
Among the huge crowd inside the bus, my newly found compadres, North, South, West, and East of my axis were: a nurse, the kind which talks ’till she puts you to sleep no matter what; the student with the most pimples and ugliest teeth in the world; the talented chubby girl with amazing fingers who texted and twitted with one hand as she held herself to the pole with the other and the cutie right next to me who kept smiling and smiling *sigh*
“I’ll take cruising during the apocalypses for $1000, Alex!”
The most amazing thing I learned of this experience is that people really don’t give a rat’s ass if a meteor collides with Earth, or that they might never ride the subway again, it is imperative that their twitter and facebook statuses are updated by the second, just like the chubby girl proved it.
“The end of the world is coming and I’m stuck in a bus with strangers, by the way, OMG 
hot guy at ten ‘o clock, I think he’s a blogger cuz he doesn’t stop staring!!” #FREAK
(That would have been me)
Seriously?
The girl and the cutie must have completely brought down my defenses, I even think that I actually blew some air at the back of his neck without even realizing it, because I completely missed my stop without realizing it.
DING, DING!
“Sorry Alex, what is I am fed up with this frigging student unrest?”
Last weekend I treated myself to a delicious long weekend trip to my motherland’s capital city, Mexico City.
Snobby? not really,air miles points more so, (“who are you to judge me?”) but I had planned this quick visit for quite a while to celebrate my best buddy’s “Big 40th birthday bash.”
I had the chance to flee the hideous spring weather Montreal has been experiencing and traded hail,sleet, rain and rumors of snow up north for a delicious sunny 29 C weather for 3 days.
Aside from the “cervezas”, tequila, and mariachi music to be expected thanks to worldwide stereotyping, I was so pleased to re discover and fall in love again with this fantastic megalopolis that thrives with amazing “bistros” à la Plateau Mont-Royal de Montréal in the trendy “La Condesa” district
Sprawling new condos and high rises in Polanco, where we stayed with a “to die for” view from a fantastic roof garden, the impressive Soumaya museum, home of one of the largest Rodin’s, Dali’s, Siqueiros, and Miro’s, collections to name a few.
How’ bout some brunch in delicious Matisse best place for freshly made bread, coffee, and pastries for starters.
Then stuff yourself at MAQUE or at a street marketplace.
There is tastes, smells, art, senses, and fun for everyone. Sometimes I wonder whether I should trade back midnight poutine to cure my hangover over a big plate of spicy “tacos al pastor”, instead.
Don’t get me wrong I “heart” Montreal to the bone and though it is my home now, we will always have Mexico City.
Tags: humor
Smells fishy, round here!
In Mexico we have a saying when a man is really horny:
“Está como burro en primavera”; ”he is hard like a donkey in the spring.”
Go figure, without a pun intended, that is exactly how the Obama secret service agents behaved in Cartagena, Colombia last weekend when eleven of them, ELEVEN! were involved in a scandal with a few “putas.”
Well, nothing wrong tasting some colombian “sancocho” if you ask me. The problem is when you rather take a “señorita for a donkey ride” over a bullet for your boss.
Damn you Modern family, damn you Sofia Vergara, see what you’ve done!?
