Author: Joey deVilla

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At the HoHoTO charity club event in December 2010, I ran into designer extraordinaire Alistair J. Morton, who was handing out little gift packages to friends. He handed me one, and it turned out to be a tubby little voodoo doll, complete with a set of pins, called “The Portly Politician”. Rob Ford had been elected several weeks earlier, so it was quite obvious whom the intended target of all the bad voodoo juju was. I tucked the doll in the pocket of the overcoat I was wearing and forgot about it.

Nearly three years and who knows how many outrageous headlines later, I found the Portly Politician in that overcoat, which had been in storage since that winter, still in the original plastic wrap. I wonder what I should do with it…

The blacked-out bits of the police report on Toronto’s crack-smoking mayor have been removed, and the news orgs are going nuts digesting the new info as quickly as they can, with publications like Toronto Life posting updates to the story as they do so. The latest goodies as of this writing:

• There’s supposed to be a recording of an alleged gang member saying he has “so much pictures” of the mayor “doing the hezza”. It turns out that hezza is an Australian slang term for heroin. Clearly I have not been playing enough Grand Theft Auto: Facking Melbourne because I didn’t recognize it. The report says he did some smack (see, there’s a term for heroin I recognize!) hours before a community event he attended.
• “$5,000 and a car”: This is supposedly what Ford offered to buy the now-infamous, if still unseen, crack video. Let’s see if we can make this a local catchphrase for “this is what I think is a reasonable offer”.
• Ford may have tried to buy back his stolen phone…with weed. Apparently the people who had the phone in their possession weren’t too worried about Ford calling the cops because, they had photos of him, and I quote, “On the pipe”.

Keep an eye on Toronto Life’s report (and the rest of the internet) as more details unfold.

Whether by way of suppressed man-love in a homophobic society or lax safety standards in a “Flintstones army, Jetsons weapons” society, sooner or later, one of these guys is going to get something hot and fast up the gunga.

Saw a bunch of stressed-looking university students earlier today and thought to myself:

Chris from Toronto is working on an interesting little stress-relieving project called Squeeze Ford — a Rob Ford-shaped stress toy! He’d like to make this come true, but manufacturing costs money, and unlike the mayor, he doesn’t have thug friends who live with their parents who can extort people. So instead, he’s set up an Indiegogo campaign with a modest $3,000 goal. If you’d like to have a Rob Ford that you can crush in your hand any time, you should get behind this project!

Here’s the video explaining the project:

I think we’re about to find out.

Some Christmas-themed photos, now that Christmas Eve’s three weeks away…

Santa, I wanted an iPad Air, not a Mini!

“My lucky sweater always brings in the ladies.”

“I’ll have you know that all the bronies love my sweater!”

Keepin’ it festive, even in the mosh pit.

Every nurses’ station needs to do this.

I am so making this my tree next year.