always the unofficial start to the summer, good ol may two four was actually quite sunny this year, a welcome change from the tornado warning of last year and the hail storm of the year before. i wouldnt say that we are good campers, in the sense that we’re big pussies and we have lots of luxuries, but i’d definitely say we are REAL GOOD at our style of camping. im talking plenty of hammock naps, inebriated ultimate frisbee*, toddler sized bags of cheesies, steadily throwing said cheesies at jonny for 8-10 minutes until he snapped, whistle dogs**, campfire sing-a-longs, early afternoon drunken bingo with 60 year olds with names like gladys and martha who were not at all fooled by our coffee mugs with rye and ginger, giving your good friend tab the new nickname ‘cunt scab’, tricking jonny*** to drink almost every round in ‘chase the ace’, being flabbergasted**** when the cell-phone-and-techno-music guys from across the road came over to sing along to wonderwall, my gimp friend dan fresh from seeing dubya speak at his graduation the day before show up at about 3 in the afternoon, drink somewhere in the neighbourhood of 12-14 coronas, sleep it off with a nap at the campfire, and then drive home at 3 am. what a trooper. oh and of course, no camping would be complete without unholy amounts of beer. i think 5 coolers full.
*which is pretty much SUPER ULTIMATE frisbee
** hot dogs with bacon and processed cheese if you didn’t get the memo
*** also given a new nickname: shitty
**** yes. flabbergasted.
the only downside was packing up at 7am in the rain this morning. oh, and being so drunk and rocking out to freebird SO HARD that there is now a chunk of my thumb missing. thats way beyond playing till your fingers bleed, suck it bryan adams. i dont know what it is about skynyrd and gettin back to my dirtball roots, but man i was givin her.
if i wasnt so slack with this blog i would have commented more in-depthly (?) on the whole belinda/budget vote shindig, but its all so last week now. however, i did go to a conference on homelessness (they were showing my documentary) in toronto on the day of the vote, and watching a movie about street nurses and squalid shelters and people freezing to death on the streets and then hearing the street nurse talk about how important it was that the budget pass since it has those ndp additions which include affordable housing funding, made me that much more happy that the budget passed. hopefully they follow thru. god bless the ndp. and glad to have you aboard belinda, too bad about your boyfriend though:
