Pictures of the Year 2004

Some of my fondest memories, good or bad of the last year.

11. The first picture I ever took with my camera. Stack in the mix as usual, Joey Beltran or Marco Corolla my guess.


10. 2004 Detroit International Auto Show. Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. Sticker price: $450,000 US.


9. Yas Esco enjoying a little snooze on the couch at Rankin. I'm sure this has happened to him at least once since he moved out to California.


8. Jeff Clemens spotted near running water. Yes that's a sofa cushion slip cover. Yes he's washing it in on the side of the house. Yes he's cleaning the puke off it. Jeff is gone but definately not forgotten.


7. The Arcade Fire's electric reindeer humping a speaker. I need to go to more shows, I've said "This is the best show I've ever been to" 3 times this year at least, startig to get annoying.


6. Having a couple pops at the Loop. Always a source of inspiration, especially when drinking Newcastles or Stellas.


5. It came to this. Typical of the Rankin experience, use this technique if you're trying attract the maximum number of women over to your house. If only Coney had his Dawn power dish scrubber/vibrator earlier I'm sure he'd have been all over this situation.


4. The house that Jadavji built. Up in smoke. Askin under fire. Blame it on the flame. I still can't believe this happened, especially given the timing of it. At least Shaner and Darcy could talk about it. Apparently the fire started from a static electric shock, coming as a result of Vince taking his shirt off and his chest hair brushing in against it.


3. Nothing better than a little afternoon baseball. Except when you're using the cheapest, not even made of rubber tennis balls bought from A CONVENIENCE STORE. Except for using a)metal bars from a futon or b)metal/wooden (take your pick) broomstick handles for the bat. Except when you're drinking and playing at the same time. Except when you have to go retrieve the homerun balls from the roof of the bar down the street in order to keep the game going. This was where the drinking binges began, sadly the camera was rarely around by the time they ended.


2. Welcome to my new world. Have a pool full of garbage at your house? Don't bother cleaning it out and ridding the area of that Eau de Ninja Turtle smell. No, the obvious thing to do would be to fill in the entire thing with earth. You won't understand the reason now, but once you raise your own trashy kids in this neighbourhood they need a safe place to dig for buried treasure, and where better than the backyard. By treasure of course I mean cinder blocks, parts of cars, syringes, and of course the classic Windsor staple, shopping carts.


1. This is the epitome of the Windsor experience. Walking down the street in conversation with no shirt on, not a care in the world. My camera couldn't keep up with what my eyes got to see every single day