Okay I was the only guy not in a tie at the Walrus lunch fundraiser I participated in yesterday. I probably should have guessed, given that it was held at the tony old school University Club in downtown Toronto. Anyway, that wasn’t the only surprise the event held: it was sold out and packed with famous Canadians including Pamela Wallin, Valerie Pringle, and others. Plus it was being moderated by Carol Off from As It Happens and taped so that a short bit of the talk could be aired on her show. (Was it? Did anyone hear it?)


I felt a touch nervous as I waited for this shindig to get going. But it all went well. I started off reading a list of books that Amazon.com recently suggested I might want to buy including The Sexual Revolution 2.0: Getting Connected, Upgrading Your Sex Life, and Finding True Love — or at Least a Dinner Date — in the Internet Age; Working Sex: Sex Workers Write About a Changing Industry; Start Your Own Adult Web Site Business; America Unzipped: In Search of Sex and Satisfaction. That set the tone and away we went. Science fiction writer Robert Sawyer was my foil (he launches a new book tomorrow) and the ensuing 40 minutes or so were a sprawling battle about the future of surveillance, privacy and transparency. Afterwards, Carol told us that we should take our show on the road, which I’m pretty sure was a compliment.


So that’s what I did yesterday. It’s been a frustrating week in terms of getting writing done. E. has been sick battling a flu cold so she’s been miserable. She’s only now recovering. I spent Monday with her, then spent all of Tuesday shooting a trailer for the peep movie, then half of wed. at a Broken Pencil meeting. Then yesterday the Walrus debate. Today I’m catching up on blogging, emails and general organization. Next week, I’m writing. Nothing but writing. And blogging. Of course blogging.