I Am Here.

In Vancouver to continue shooting the ‘Summer Of Pride’ series for OUTtv (Happy Pride, Vancouver!), as well as interviews for the show, including a chat with Bif Naked.  I love her energy – any woman who tweets that she is grateful for her ears so she can hear her beloved dog snore is A+ by me.

Speaking of dogs and gratitude, I love that I have friends I know and trust who will watch over my home and beasts while Eddie and I are away

This has been a Blast From The Past Week: Tuesday I saw the Soulpepper production of David French’s comedy Jitters with my bff Amanda; we met 20+ years ago when I co-starred in it with her father.  Tomorrow I’m day-tripping to Victoria to rendezvous with Andrea, an old high school friend.  I haven’t seen her in 21 years – I sat behind her in math class and used to pass her crude notes when I was bored out of my skull. Memory Lane!

Law of Attraction: Yesterday I chatted with my pal Brandon, who blogs (‘Step:2‘) over on HIMBO’s sister site, GayGuideToronto.com.  He’s working on a post that looks at the difference between ‘attraction’ and ‘effort’ and we discussed our ideas on this.  Brandon noted a lot of people say to him that the Law of Attraction requires a lot of effort, but to me, it’s the opposite, it’s about eliminating ‘effort’.  The concept of ‘effort’ for most people has built into it ‘pushing against’, ‘trying’, ‘resisting’, ‘have to’, and ‘work’, when really, the key to attracting what you want is to loosen all that up.  All day every day we put out requests for what we want, whether we verbalize, write it down, or simply put it out there with little thought attached.  IE: If someone is rude to you, you want people to be nicer.  If you open your wallet and you have no cash, you want more money.  If you see a hot pair of boots in a shop window, you might  (as I do) say aloud to no one in particular: “Must. Have. Those.”  Since you’re asking asking asking constantly, the trick becomes NOT then worrying about the ‘how’, NOT controlling what everyone is doing around you that may or may not prevent you from getting to what you desire, NOT putting in long hours working thinking it’s the only way to achieve what you want.  Instead it’s about focusing on what’s pleasurable around you, thinking thoughts that feel good, putting in time at the beach, taking the dogs for a hike rush-free.  This puts you in the positive alignment that you’d be in if you had the things you wanted, so the things you want can then come.  Trust me, it’s taken me a trip to get this.  I’ll be interested to see what Brandon has to say!

This week here on HIMBO! saw the most unique visitors I’ve ever had – a very healthy number that even surpasses (by 50%) what we normally see daily on GayGuideToronto.com, which has been online for 8.5 years compared to just 1.5 for HIMBO! Translation: THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING MY WORK!

Have a great weekend (long weekend to Ontario readers!), Happy Caribana, peace and love!

And The Last Word goes to … Abraham! “In the same way you cannot set your radio tuner to 98.6 and receive the songs playing on 101 FM, you must set your own vibrational tuner to one of Well-being … feelings of love, joy, passion, exhilaration, fun, interest … are indications of your match to that …”

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Last night I hosted a small get-together for the Shaun Proulx Media team, including bloggers from GayGuideToronto.com, The Shaun Proulx Show peeps, associates, and a few mandatory BFFs.  Just to appreciate, to take a breath, and chillax as the Toronto Pride wind up winds up.  My friend Buck Angel was in town, so he was guest of honour, and we played the premiere episode of my show in which he was featured.

Thanks to Lola’s Commissary for their wonderful space, and for whipping up deliciousness for us the likes of which you can’t find anywhere else.  Thanks also to Flatrock Cellars and Premium Peeler Light Cider for the hangover this morning!

And suddenly there was a magician, screwing with our heads.

P.S.  On a side note, thanks to Shinan Govani for the mention in his scene column in today’s National Post!

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This morning has offered up some hits and misses:

Hit: The new single by Kelis, ‘Acapella’. Sweet, and produced by David Guetta.
Miss: ‘Fresh Out The Oven’. Jennifer Lopez as ‘Lola’ (oy) feat. Pitbull. Awful. Put it back in and keep baking, woman. Read the rest of this entry »

What a sign of the times.  Decades into a world where a virus called HIV and a disease called AIDS still exists, the issue and those involved have taken to the Internet – something surely inconceivable to those who were first infected or affected thirty years ago.

Today, World AIDS Day, two notable initiatives launch online.  The first is the relaunch of InterACTion, the popular project between the AIDS Committee of Toronto and GayGuideToronto.com.  Read the rest of this entry »

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Doesn’t it seem all of a sudden the world has gone social media mad, leaving you wondering WTF? You kinda-sorta get it, you kinda-sorta feel it could improve your business and your life, but you kinda-sorta have a lot of questions?

My publication, GayGuideToronto.com and GGT blogger / personal coach Brandon Williams (he writes the wonderful Step 2: on GGT) are pleased to present Social Media Q&A – a special tele-class with Staci J. Shelton November 5th. Read the rest of this entry »

Happy Friday! Here’s what I’m loving as we head into a long (deeeep breath) weekend here in Canada:

- The insanity that was interviewing Carol Channing for the show yesterday. A lot of the funny craziness was while we were off-air with her, but the good news is the OutTV cameras were rolling the whole while, so watch for a visual take on this hot mess of a chat coming to a Thursday night soon!

- Leslie Jordan the day before.  Like the big gay sister I never had.  Giggly, vivacious, Southern, naughty … I couldn’t stop laughing. Read the rest of this entry »