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Feel GOOD Friday!
Sep 3rd, 2010 by Shaun Proulx

St. Marc Spa Is A Bathhouse In Toronto. This Clever Poster Campaign Always Gives Me A Laugh When I See It.

Well well well, it’s that time of week again.  Here’s what I’m loving on this Happy Friday:

:) A LONG WEEKEND! Enjoy, enjoy!

:) I’m walking in this year’s AIDS Walk September 19th, raising money for AIDS service organizations everywhere, including ACT, the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Please sponsor me – any amount helps! Thank you in advance :)

:) This time of year brings the Toronto International Film Festival.  Besides the buzz over films and stars, it’s vastly entertaining observe just how far people will go to elbow-in on the fame game.  This morning I got a gushy press release about a security company that works the fest.  That’s right, folks, security guards are the new celebrities – or at least wannabe.  Chuckle on …

:) Falling a little more in love with a certain red-headed Cocker Spaniel named Ella every day.  Girl, you know it’s true.

:) A new fall do.  John Taccone of Navigate Space has been eyeballed by Madonna for her locks, so you know that makes it good enough for Proulx here.  His hair blog is Get More Gorgeous, so … hello? Thanks Mr. T. for the great cut this week and a new look for fall.  Sometimes one change = big lift!

:) Law Of Attraction: Here in Toronto, the race for Mayor is on, voting is next month.  George Smitherman, who could make history by becoming the city’s first gay Mayor, has surprised many by continually being beaten in polls by an opponent named Rob Ford.  Ford is a colourful candidate to say the least, with an impressive track record of public statements and policies that leave many aghast.  So much so, that Smitherman’s camp retaliated by publishing a website that collects Ford-isms, the purpose obviously to tip the voter scales in Smitherman’s favour by letting Ford-speak spook Torontonians. Tremendous amount of media attention has also been given to Ford and the “dire straights” Toronto would be in under his reign.

It ain’t working. Ford remains in the lead.

I’ve known George since we were young men.  I’m so proud of his success in politics, particularly as a gay man (he resigned from a rank as high as Deputy Premier of the Province of Ontario to run for Toronto Mayor), and I know he’d be an excellent and well-intended mayor for Toronto.  Here’s the Law of Attraction take on things I posted on my Facebook this week:

Whoever does not want RF to be Toronto’s next mayor needs to stop focusing on RF and what he says and does and how awful he appears to be. ASAP.

Stop visiting RF websites, reading horrific articles about him, Facebooking and tweeting and blogging about him – the works.  Focus deliberately on George Smitherman, focus on the many positive aspects of his astounding political career thus far as evidence of how he has everything he needs to lead our city. Don’t compare him to you-know-who anymore, instead tell great Smitherman stories over the coming weeks to yourself, on Facebook and anywhere else you choose.

Any focus on anything else will only bring us all what we don’t want from the sheer force of all of us thinking, worrying, complaining, fearing and loathing  it.

What you focus on expands – whether it’s something you want, or don’t want.

Congratulations in advance, Mr. Smitherman.

Have a wonderful Labour Day weekend!  HIMBO! returns Tuesday!

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Homophobia and the Law Of Attraction
Sep 2nd, 2010 by Shaun Proulx

In conversation this week, I was reminded about an incident that happened to me this past winter outside Jarvis Collegiate, a school close to where I live.  Walking by during a lunch hour where the streets and school property were filled with students, I heard one call out loudly: “Faggot!”

I kept walking, and heard “Faggot!” called a couple more times.

Then a piece of wood went flying past my head.  A piece of broken tree branch, about a foot long.  Not a twig, a branch.

To cut the story short, I chose to keep walking.  But I also chose to share what had happened to me on my former radio show that afternoon, as example of how homophobia exists even in cities often praised for their “tolerance” like Toronto. It created some great dialogue, and I felt I’d turned something negative into a positive.

But something kept nagging me.  Here’s my commentary from the day that followed: Read the rest of this entry »

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Y&R Report Card
Aug 31st, 2010 by Shaun Proulx

Everybody Play ... The Little Nikker!

A day of meetings/meetings/meetings, but meanwhile, my latest Young & Restless Report Card is up on super soap site Soaps.com – check out who made the grade!

Summer may be dwindling, but it’s not too late to introduce you to my swell new drinking game! I call it “The Little Nikker,” and playing’s easy: When Nikki Newman doesn’t know she’s drinking, you drink too! (Caveat: Do keep a designated driver handy. Anyone but Sean “Meggie” Young.) Click here to read more!

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Doug Watch – 10:36 a.m.
Aug 30th, 2010 by Shaun Proulx

(Doug?)

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Mail + Maryjane
Aug 30th, 2010 by Shaun Proulx

Happy Monday!

Catching up with the mailbag, I came across this lovely note about an interview I did with the one-and-only Carol Channing on my former radio show:

Shaun – An endearing, utterly beguiling interview with a legend. You handled it with such aplomb and skill and it was obvious Carol adored chatting with you. I brought carol to NH in 2007 and again in 2008 to do a couple of AIDS benefits and her interactions with those infected and affected was amazing. Your interview style is delightful and you captured the Carol I have been privileged to know for many years. Bravo!!! Sincerely, Paul Brogan

Thanks Paul! If you never caught the kooky convo, check it out below – and keep scrolling down to find out which Y&R legend thinks pot should be legalized!



And which star of Y&R thinks marijuana should be legalized? Puffa-puffa!

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Doug Watch – 9:42 a.m.
Aug 27th, 2010 by Shaun Proulx

Double Doug ...

... To Celebrate The Weekend :)

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