well, since i'm back in the big smoke, i guess it's not much of a travelogue after all, is it? i went and became all busy actually walking around doing stuff rather than update this meagre space. central park, guggenheim, fao schwartz, united nations. bah! who has time? especially idiotman who walked the entire time.

i'll regale details and the damn photos later. needless to say, it's humid and hot in both cities, albeit there's more greenspace here, and no billboards on every possible vertically capable square centimetre of wallspace, but where are the buildings?

i'll get my head straightend at work tomorrow then. but, i may be going back shortly. i'll keep y'all informed. okay, whoever finds this message.

TOP FIVE things i missed about toronto

1. level roads and sidewalks with no craters or weird bumps on them (although, once i hit spadina, i'll find my share again).
2. multicoloured money and change people actually accept.
3. those fully grown tree things that grow everywhere and not just one big space.
4. good dairy products, and a few other raw ingredients, like [i like it when i leave my thoughts unfinished. --gak] vegetables and chicken (yeah, raw chicken just isn't the same between canada and the u.s., but it tastes fatter stateside).
5. my humble bicycle. or, maybe based on all the walking i did, my feet. whatever.

TOP FIVE things i miss already about new york city

1. pizza and bagels and the cornerstores with delis and beer at your disposal. eat like a king for cheap.
2. skyscrapers or other things that seem to stalk you wherever you go.
3. red bull. man, that's like 3 ginseng teas to the wakeup motor. beats caffeine as a stimulant, but then again, they're not allowed in canada for some reason. (must search, but later).
4. girls who find it rude when you don't approach them, rather than toronto's general "rude that you exist" modus operandi.
5. a sense of identity, that what you stand on has brought you to this level and now it's time for you to shape things. the compelling architecture, the quest for newness, those damn bums in the next neighbourhood over ...all this adds up to a feeling of understanding your elders and keeping real to do something good.

meanwhile ...in less horsepucky land,
WHY HAS JOHNNY FORSAKEN ME??
(or, why was johnny's original charbroiled hambrugers closed this sunday evening? sure, i didn't look past the padlocked grate fence, but wtf? i have to wander by again, or however wandering 10 km away from me goes.)