Weekend update

Babe du jour. My friend Malvina, on the left, is not only hot enough to melt ice cream, she's also one of the city's fastest-rising lawyers, as you know one of my favourite professions. She's from Park Ex, moved to Greece but has returned and had a drink a while with me at the W Bar terrace a while back. The equally charming babe on the right, whose name temporarily escapes me, is of East Indian extraction and works in travel, I believe.




Found this rare old fashioned wood cabin style phone booth in the lobby of that City of Montreal building on St. Antoine just West of Berri. Like the ones in the lobby of city hall, the phones have been ripped out. I'd like to see them somehow protected as heritage items, but it seems unlikely.








Many a Montreal beggar has a customized routine. I guess they practice in the mirror and stuff. This one flames up a lighter at the end of a tube, as if playfully shooting a gun at you while concealing his face. I don't give to beggars so I don't care about his act but it's not a very good one. If you care to see this guy he's usually not far from one of the several beggar hotspots not far from the Old Brewery Mission, the first light after the eastbound St. Lawrence Street exit if highway 20 being the most likely.





The facade of this dump behind the parking lot on Drummond South of St. Catherine, features the traces of an old entrance, it was a horse stables. I lived at this dump for 5 years, paying $300 a month, loving every minute of it. I battled the all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet which would leave its dumpster below my window, something which I put a permanent end to by convincing now-deceased city councillor Georgina Coutu to put in some permanent planters. Bums would dumpster dive for General Tao chicken amid Chez Pares talent who would who park their cars, telltale gym bags in tow, to work at one of the three adjacent peeler joints.

This massively popular and crowded shoe shop on Wellington has the most amazing deals on shoes in town. That's all I'm saying. Up to you to find out the rest.