TONY [during his birthday party at Gino’s on Tuesday evening]
“It’s nice meeting people like this. Most times when I meet ’em in on my birthday, it’s not very warm, if you know what I mean.”
Archive for February, 2008
Birthday wishes
February 29, 2008The cook, the beef, his life and recovery
February 27, 2008
TONY
“You remember the guy I told you I was coaching? Well, it turns out he’s a great cook, he’s amazing. He can cook anything. We got this nice piece of roasting meat the other night. By the time he’s finished cooking it, it was fit for a king. So now I’m a homeless guy with my own cook. Life is crazy sometimes.”
Back to 1949
February 26, 2008
Tony’s 59th birthday party – Tues, Feb 26 2008, 4:30-6pm – Gino’s: Howard Park and Dundas
February 23, 2008
On trial
February 20, 2008
As planned, Tony is in court today. Hopefully he’s not going back to into jail but you never know … you’ll know more when I do.
Philip
There’s something about JFK
February 13, 2008 
PHILIP
“Did you see the photo of JFK’s love-child who’s now living out in BC?”
TONY
“He’s a Kennedy, alright. You can see it in his eyes. Those Americans need a Kennedy again, I’m telling you. They need someone they can look up to.”
Home invasion
February 13, 2008
TONY
“I haven’t seen so much snow since that winter of 1999, you know when the army came in to dig us out. Also, that’s about the time when I got stuck being homeless.”
The gotcha that ends the night
February 11, 2008
TONY
“Damn it’s cold. It was -30 C with windchill last night they were saying — and I believe ’em. Hey, did you see my new guitar guy here?”
PHILIP
“Hard to miss him, actually.”
TONY
“You know that I spent 3 hours trying to fix him last night. Just wouldn’t work, even tried new batteries a couple of times. I tore the whole toy apart to find out what was wrong. Finally, I realized that I put the batteries in backwards. I just had put them in like the batteries go into Elmo. Boy, did that turn out to be a bad assumption.”
Left in the cold
February 8, 2008
PHILIP
“I got you some stuff. Here’s a bottle of ibuprofens, and here’s one of those cans of strawberry-flavoured Ensure drink. How about that, eh [!]?”
TONY
“Great. I appreciate it. I’ll be using that ibuprofen right away, thank you — and I’ll put that can in my refrigerator for dinner.”
Three shots for a dollar
February 5, 2008
Priceless
February 3, 2008
TONY
“I had a funny thing happen today with a customer.”
PHILIP
“A customer? What happened?”
TONY
“He wanted to give me some change but he didn’t have any money on him.”
PHILIP
“So what happened?”
TONY
“So he asked me if I would take a credit card.”
PHILIP
“What did you say?”
TONY
“Well I told him that I didn’t even have a debit card machine. He thought that was pretty funny.”
Homeless Man Speaks 