Yesterday, a city block burned to the ground. The old historical buildings housed long established, family run stores, bars and the famous Duke’s cycle. It is all shocking and sad because of the lives forever changed and the street landscape now altered and smouldering.
Masur owned a bar, on that very block, in a space which was now on the news and on fire!
Holy fuck!
Masur and her business partner had the warehouse space way back in the olden days (during the early 1990s)and spent many years trying to make a profit, handle insane liquor laws, pacify crazy go-go dancers and deal with people fucking in bathrooms. It was an experience that made owning a bar look glamorous at first until the realisation that the long, long hours didn’t really pay off and you lived like a vampire (yet poor). The sex as a customer however, was noteworthy!!!
Great memories ...and all mostly tarty (you don't say). Good tarty though. The type of sexual free-for-all that you get away with when your nipples point upwards. One of the boys that really turned my head in those bricks and morter now on fire was Shakespeare.
I met Shakespeare when the bar space was a cocktail/grunge hang out called Mrs. Smith’s Cocktail Party. Shakespeare was one of those fateful encounters that opened my eyes (not just my legs) and sent me down a path of sexual enlightenment and with a new sexual dynamic. Sure he was over the top but then so was I…the folly of youth. Shakespeare was one of the very, very few men I have met or even seen in public that could pull off leather pants.(or at least I hope my memory is accurate and not just dreamy dreamy) As a RSC (yes that would be the Royal Shakespean alumni darling!) he was a natural luvvie could sashay with the best of them…Poser, you ask? honey he was the king of posing! He was a king-poser and I in my lamb-leather, biker kitten outfit...would be the Queen St W Queen of posing...so take that poser-boy!
And no poser sex would be complete without images of entwined limbs and those fucking engineering boots... footwear just retarded enough to get laid for implied coolness ....and since I lived both abroad and in Toronto, the luckiest and most internationally successful boots I ever owned!!!!!!!!!!!!
women...when watching news, reading the paper, doing the washing or just daydreaming about past loves somehow, it is always about the shoes...
And then when no longer thinking footwear (see, I can't help being girlie) I was bombarded with other memories including various back alley naughty shenanigans, compounded with morally questionable evenings (finally, back to the sex)..especially with someone who was at the time - a bit of an international pop star...who shall remain nameless...and then once with ... oh god...what a drunken idiot...stop typing bitch...etc,etc,etc...
So it was interactive wake-up-to-past-sluttery evening news.
I may seem a bit trivial to refer to my past escapades in light of circumstances of people losing all they possess. No insult is intended. Just that those bricks and mortar represented so much of my youth, my memories and some of the best moments of my drunken idioticy. And now without the physical evidence...
I donated at Scotiabank and I urge all of you to donate to your own favourite charity.(I regret nothing mon chere)
May they have the imagination to rebuild something with character and not a Home Depot monstrosity.