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That flannel was the best purchase idea. 69 vintage the week I moved into Adventurehouse. Keep it styling and layered in the cold. Also check our dope smiles.

I am owning the bucket list right now.

This poster Sean made is brilliant now I’ll tell ya more about HARTH FEST (OCT 26-99 SUDBURY 7PM) a little later (or you could just investigate on your own). Turns out I am “doing too much” and confusing friends and the universe. Sorry I don’t do just one thing, eventually you’ll all catch up and know that I am always doing something and you’ll figure it out. Oh I just remembered last night a guy beneath the Dufferin bridge said RAYMI THE MINX! at me and YOU’RE AWESOME! Thanks buddy! I think I am turning into that little british accent guy you see at shows all the time with the pube ‘stach, he’s hilarious. I am spacing on what his name is though but anyway, today I dressed like a freak again and it was a success. Again.

I was late for my nirvana tribute and totally bo jangles nervous about it and rob backtracked me to dufferin cos that drum band was pounding away (awesomely so might I add) at gladstone. My little moment with the film crew felt like Mr. Dressup AFTERDARK. Heehee.

I don’t have a voice anymore today. Well I do and it’s a cross between Lindsay Lohan and ScarJo. I tried to make Lilo my friend (she actually stared at me once IRL) but now that she has gotten a dose of humble pie realness maybe she is ready to be on team Raymi. She can teach us how to strip?

And before we move on here’s a better official Casby’s recap, Britt did a very good job as did my Camera crew. Look out for more RTM TV soon. alex-at-raymitheminx.com for brand placement/sponsorship.

And now without further ado, a brief history of rebellion.

It was such a classic high school teen angsty setting. Pure brilliance that.

Dying to see footage from the front row perspective. Hook it up media peeps please.

Chicks came up to me and were like wow. WOW! You’re like a Courtney Kurt BAM! I said yeah and the cheerleaders too. A modern twist. These are stills from the second performance. I didn’t wear the bear suit for it.

The band didn’t know what hit ‘em. Or did. Whatever right.

Reading my notes with my bear paw gloves on. Mind blanked. Was shaking. What is the capacity of that theatre? teacher is saying 3-400 people in attendance for my set, maybe 2, either way it was nerve-rackingly blissful to look out to all those people. I just say yes to everything these days and do it. I face my fears, I think haters don’t do that so it’s like a double diss to see me do? The thing is, I want joiners, I’m NOT alienating anybody here, there must be a disconnect. I should have filmed a monthly hello how are you vlog years ago.

I look hilarious.

Packaging is everything. I can be pretty on the inside all I want but I don’t sing like Susan Boyle so I gotta shine it up a tad. Think of your looks to talent ratio like a seesaw, react/act accordingly. Im not a rocket scientist or anything but it seems pretty straight forward.

How could I say no to this?

Check the smile on that guy’s face. they had their little Kurt happening. I’m glad I could do that for them. Blaha.

I was pretty smooth on the head banging moments and air drumming.

And the other Kurt guy waiting in the wings there. I felt sorry for everyone who had to follow my “performance” “art”.

Lots of punk kicking like so. I pulled out the punk show 101 arsenal. Bit-a skunking too.

OK you get the point. Here’s 15 pictures of the same scene with me jumping around.

On my way in to the Toronto Underground Cinema.

Not everyone is as good with mystery camera as I am.

I yelled out to a crowd of hipsters GOOD NEWS EVERYONE I JUST FOUND THE TREASURE MAP OF NUIT BLANCHE IT’S OK NOW EVERYONE CAN RELAX. Every time I said something ridiculous I’d beat it out of there before the punchline sunk in then several yards away, raucous laughter. Practising comedy at every juncture.

The weirdest thing about Nuit Blanche is all the people doing normal things, what weirdos! That guy is eating in a restaurant, look. How bizarre. You know?

Speed art critique. Funny. Only in that it is a negativity set-up. Pompous.

That guy was playing a flute with a helmet on and weird rainbow hair. I danced into this street dance circle BUT first accidentally stepped on an empty plastic cup which made a LOUD crackling scrape so my bear suit entrance was enhanced in the most stupid of ways. UGH.

Neat cars everywhere. Elite eccentrics too. Love that.

it’s really annoying that someone was shot and killed here last night in Bellwoods. There was so much joy and fun and creativity. Come on people knock it off. Having to be afraid when out on an art crawl, the point being carefree abandon and then having a fear in the back of your mind that some idiot might lose their cool, sigh.

Hey oh noes is that my brother you are wearing?

I teddy bear danced myself on in. Everyone went I love your hat then realized it was a full outfit and then wanted to squeeze me haha. Interesting social experiment. People think you’re a super human and let their guard down, they open up, it’s wonderful really. I am a total hippie.

See anyone you know?

Swedes trying to figure out the art. It was a statement about how much water waste soft drink manufacturing facilities create. Then the hot dog guy got in to a discussion with me about how meat eaters waste more water cos the animals we eat drink water BAHAHHAHAHA. I was like dude really? Some of the resources on our planet are there to be used for what they’re meant to be used for ie. DRINKING. You’d think meat eaters were saving water by eating all the animals THAT ARE ALLEGEDLY DRINKING ALL THE WATER. All in all at Nuit Blanche no one cares about your statement (according to all the friends I ran in to whom all said the same thing about this installation) they just want to mosh in to it. Me? I care. Soft drinks bad now lets go get one!

I thought it was a secret hidden advertisement for Pepsi cos obvi that is how my mind works and now look, it is. I once DREAMED about one of those mini chubby cans of pepsi, it worked, I bought one the second I woke up.

That part was cool. The girl seemed a bit pissed her installation was kind of destroyed. We later bumped into a couple guys I know who said they were throwing each other in to it, taking a ladder away and leaning it against a tree haha pretty funny. What do you expect, it’s Nuit Blanche, once you put rules in art you destroy it and expose that it’s not about art at all it’s about control and being right.

He’s holding my card. Do you think he’ll remember any of this?

HUNGRY BEAR. I told all girls who came near that I wound eat them.

That’s a nice one. Wonder if she was in attendance.

Nice lashes night. See that mark on my arm, it’s a burn from the oven. There’ll be a MINX tat there soon to cover it up.

A note to self shot that I want to go and buy this.

Loved this. Toronto should go South Beach on the regular.

This was fun. OK NIGHT!

NUiT BLANCHE TONiGHT Let me crowd surf into your heart

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get up on the mic if you want!

This is an amazing song I found on Stew’s hypem channel, it’s a remix of my favourite song on the list of songs. amazing. My earring drops out halfway through this, it’s funny. Not wearing that pair tonight! and then when I put the bullets on i yell EWOK. After zipping up costume and saying FULL BEAR. HA. ha.

Watch history go down TONIGHT. NUIT BLANCHE 186 SPADINA AVE. I think about 11 or so I’ll head over. It’s going to be redonkulous. F- UP and tokyo police club. Penny lane is out on the scenes again. It already made pitchfork and I heard it was sent to RollingStone too. WOW! TEEN SPIRIT! Come mosh with me. I’m wearing docs.

My new know it all bestie Kat wrote some stuff about brands and blogging and she lost this stare down big time.

Uploading an adorably stupid dancing bear video. Gettin’ pumped! So nervous. Don’t know any words. BARF!

BARFINGTON BLOGGER!

My last insane rock performance in front of a packed film fest crowd at wrong bar. only one who sang. Gave’r with terry of fubar ya ya. I solved a crime too with my photo skills. I do it all, really, I do. Then I saw F-d up at wrong bar for nxne, it was crayzay. They are on the same bill tonight with me so I am scared. This is a punk show PREPARE THYSELF ACCORDINGLY.

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as usual we got up to no good last night

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Found this article and decided to comment. I’ve decided to “play the game”, rather, play pretend like I know what the f- the game even is, or care. I have mad traffic, some bloggers make more money than me, the gloves are off and it’s time to dance. This is my arena, I’ve been coat-tailed to the top and as a friend recently said it was painful silently watching me hand the keys over to the kingdom over the past year I was like awww no WAY!

Here’s my comment:

Eleven years this November is how long I’ve been blogging.

“Bloggers are not typically trained journalists that understand the company/PR firm/reporter news continuum.” Wrong. Fully understand, it’s called shutting up in business and not burning a bridge. Bloggers sound off for no reason at all times for attention and it’s time to grow up.

You do not need 90 days to make an incredible event, it takes 30, choose your top 5 (or 3) influencers who then extend their network force, pay them, mash networks together, treat that project (event/product campaign) like a pyramid scheme until it is completed.

I am actually speaking on a panel in two hours on what a blogger is worth, this article is timely. Thanks!

What is a blogger worth? I have so much to say, I have trimmed it down to bullet points and Katrina said yesterday it’s not like people are going to give their trade secrets away. Oh yeah, why not? You can’t imitate this originator, or can you?

FIND OUT SOON!

Mom got me these in Vegas. Mom and Lois spoil me, I’ll show you her (lois) tickle trunk treats when I have time. I haven’t seen them since our Rob Ford Dan Aykroyd tag team brap brap!

I love Katrina! She found a hotspot in kitchener called RAYMITHEMINX! That’s a super fan. Hi friend! Kat and I have been yammering away on twitter or my blog I forget (Do you follow me? You should I am psycho on it it’s fun @raymitheminx) the last little bit and it was a pleasure to run into her and learn of her hilarity in person, what a gem. I nicked her a triangle of brie for the road, there were 20 leftovers and all going to charity. She has kids and blabbity blah I am Robin Hood go melt it on some garlic and jam and toast mmmmm.

Snooki glasses.

When I ordered my drink I requested less tart more booze.

Cammi said everyone at her table said I was beautiful so I floated over like an angel and said hi. I liked stalking Cammi’s tweets on the ticker screen and then seeing her three seconds later. Girl got mad style and twitter following get me some-a that! We sashayed down the catwalk together in May. Fierce.

Made Rosana’s night “Thursday night dinner and celeb-spotting @raymitheminx made the night” awww. Also that fine cat is Mark, #SCCTO uhhh this guy: co-founder & Chairman of Social Media Marketing Agency; ShesConnected Multimedia Corp. He just wandered in to the keg where mom lois and I were holding court and we hung out, he taught me a zen speech master trick I am going to implement today. Utterly top secret though. I was in the bathroom washing my hands and Rosana’s gf says, hey, do you, blog? I’m like HELL YES I DO WHERE IS SHE!? Ha then I snuck up to Rosana in a corner and tapped her on the shoulder like something out of Punk’d. It was a good moment. She, like many other little raymis in time of guidance often asks herself, WHAT WOULD RAYMI DO? She also said her and her friends try and decode my tweets when I’m up to mischief. I have sentence dyslexia and a big mouth.

We never stayed at the keg so late but I was bagged, it was nice once the sea of suits mellow out and head back to their homes. Seeing CEOs smashed and smash wine glasses one after another is also totally hilarious, plus the dudes lining up to try out their pick-up lines. I had SCCTO non-partying guilt but I wanted to work on my notes and visit with the girls.

My mom has 200 photos and is taking her sweet princessy ass time in uploading them so you will have to wait. I’d have had them up already if it were my camera, which I didn’t take cos I assumed colleague blabbity blahhhhh.

Argentinian chicks.

One for me and one for me it would be awesome if molson could sponsor raymitheminx tv. I feel like every ridiculous publicity stunt i’ve engaged in the past has been an insane waste of time for not filming it, and i am not saying that in a phoney delusions of grandeur everything I say is comedy type way (even though it is and i am a professional entertainer) but, it’s just more fun, that tv thing. I want a video blog. The options agreement to my life rights is expired so I’m a free agent now.

OK SHOW TIME.

I always fly Harth Air

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We have roller girls on the bill now too. Check out Jazmin’s Solo from our last gig at The Bovine.

EARLY BIRD NERD SPECIAL!

AND WE HAVE A THIRD GIRL: BUNNY ANGORA!

We do weddings. You’d be surprised how many receptions request live entertainment now, and in front of the kids too, so exotic and progressive.

Bunny and I danced together with the Harlettes. yes that is similar to Harth Airlettes. The Harth boys are to blame, coincidentalish name, so we’re called harth air (air is sharper than airway) and I had to add something dancey to it so you’d know we were flight attendants. If you had a better idea than “lettes” you should have spoken up.

Maybe I can fly Harth to Germany cos I’m big in Düsseldorf! look!

Hello,

I’m Robin from Germany.

A few friends of mine and me are running a Hardcore music print fanzine. The main content is hardcore related but we even have metal, emo(core), a bit rock and other stuff. Besides this we are reporting about environmental topics and lifestyle.

We even have a huge online community and seperated mens only and girls only.
In the girls only area your blog has been linked from time to time.

So I thought, why not to do an Interview with you.
I don’t really have a script right now, but I think it might be interesting for some of the people down here about how your blog went that big and especially the person behind all this.

if you like that Idea. please hit me back

greetings

Robin Outspoken

Düsseldorf in Germany

RAYMI THE MINX VISITS GERMANY?

I Have been dying of curiosity about what they are all saying about me over on that forum, getting traffic to tumblr and raymitheminx.com like bananas. Guten Tag! Can’t wait!

Wonder if my Gulag had anything to do with it too. I’ll blog a video of Jasmine Valentine’s burlesque performance from SO LONG SUMMER up here in a moment along with more photos of the HARTH HIVE. Sean said they spoke to ANDY MILONAKIS for twenty minutes yesterday and I can’t spoil anything else. I can’t believe this is happening. I am going to take the boys to yuk yuk’s next week for a night out VIP RAYMI style. I must convince Alkarim to allow me to groom/exploit him more, he’s our Jeff Goldblum! The entire Harth cast of characters are a dream. What’s next, toadstool hallucinogens with Joe Rogan? PROBABLY!

This was the day I taught them all the meaning of respect.

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That’s something our Uncle John used to say to us as kids and hold us upside down at our grandparents. He’s a genius, can write symphonies, writes symphonies, right?

EARLY BIRD HARTH FEST TICKET SPECIAL 1. You will have to pay extra at the door 2. That will suck for you 3. email Raymi@raymitheminx.com for MEDIA* GUEST LIST ONLY. *influencers too.

Speaking of androidTO I have been full on functioning like a robot the past two weeks, one massive project attention after another, after another, I feel like my brain is being rewired from workload expansion to the large variety in the types of projects ranging from music, tech, burlesque, blog, tv, charity, green conscious, foodie, blogvertorial, public speaking, pitch writing, parties BOOM. A hater said recently that I just flounce around and say that is work. HA I wish. From sun-up to well past sun down I am go go go, not to mention documenting it all then blogging it, covering, sharing. It gets exhausting.

Someone said I should be an Iron Fist model. He’s a BMX bike guy so he would know. I told him to write to them and say any lie necessary.

Wanted to eat at nunu yesterday but they were closed so we went to the beac. that place is such a cave, like the raven, my earrings, and poem.

Prosecco is too sweet for me.

While I blogged in Burnoutington, Teacher picked up candles from JYSK. He said it’s like ikea and home outfitters. He bought cushions and tea towels too. YAY NEW STUFF HOUSE PRESENTS!

Hat head day.

Bye for real now!

PS. WE’VE GOT A NAME FOR OUR BURLESQUE TROUPE FOR THE SHOW AT THE BOVINE SATURDAY OCTOBER 29:

HAUNTED HOUSE HAREM.

Boo!

Anyway brb after Stella and I go on a thinking cruise together.

Froyo Love Froyo Love i would give the stars above

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Yesterday She Does the City Maven Jen and I had a trip to fantasy treat world to catch up on life and plough through buckets of Yogurty’s while posing as inconspicuous celebrities in the Froyo Cafeteria and I wanted to check out the newest location at Bathurst and Eglinton. These places are multiplying :) hot diggity.

Now lemme show ya how it’s done I’m a regular and, you may recall I’ve treated myself to some Yogurty’s before. I am a Yogurtease through and through.

I left half my makeup at my dad’s so Jen and I had to share. I don’t think she was clued in that this would be an invasive Rodeo Drive-by paparazzi yogurt spree.

I love their branding. Ha ha in my emails to Jen about Yogurty’s as I was selling them to her I was like, Heck, their website design is miles better than RTM.com come along and see for yourself.

Heheh nice and candid, she’s like, where am I? Heaven, Jen.

I like this futuristic Hello Kitty Jetson’s Cafeteria. Kids these days sure are lucky and luckily I am never planning on growing up. Also I look like a banshee ghost sleep walking in a nightgown or a crazy eccentric lady from the annex. Plus a wizard. Did you get all of that?

I got espresso and wafer flavoured yogurt, topped with cookie dough cubes and cheesecake cubes, some crazy white blobules, strawberries, white chocolate shavings, caramel sauce. Last time I tried to be as healthy as possible. This time? Not a chance.

And for dessert I had Burger King.

Red velvet, ooh. Also the name of one of our new dancers.

This time we filled 3 tubs for the same weight/price as TWO during the last visit. Coming out to about $20. Decent.

Our paparazzi joiner’s meal cooked by cheflette Raymbo Bright. You will eat it and you will like it and you won’t die cos I made sure not to put anything peanut-related and it’s all kosher too in case you have cultural allergies ;).

Appears as though I transferred all the topping’s weight over to my tub. I was going for aesthetics and building a princess sugar mountain.

Jen and I were competing for the best looking Yogurty’s design. She just didn’t know she was in a secret challenge.

This made my day. Happy place indeed.

Classy stylish Willy Wonka of the future, right meow!

No two cups will ever be identical, like snowflakes, full of white chocolate. Quite the indulgence. Looking forward to taking my niece and Mary Lynne to the Burlington location, future Little Raymis that they are.

Didja know that Jen has like 5 sisters, 4? Millions of girl cousins too, they’re all kooky, hip, sweet and endearing then add all the SDTC cult crew of girls and that’s one strong urban female force yeah? Jen and I have been buddies for almost a decade. She’ll be sitting at the head table for my last supper portrait someday hahaa. How funny and fast is that idea going to be ripped off, not like everyone has ripped it off tons already. (Just remember that I said it here first).

I had just pumped chocolate fudge onto paparazzi’s Mt. Froyo.

Ok I don’t feel so bad now, Jen added gummy worms to her dinner. What is this Elf? That’s not food ahaha remember the smarties in the spaghetti? That movie just gets more hilarious with age.

I passed through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, through the sea of swirly twirly gum drops, and then I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel.

First we’ll make snow angels for two hours, then we’ll go ice skating, then we’ll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse Cookie-dough as fast as we can, and then we’ll snuggle.

And of course I notoriously love when he yells out I PAINTED A PICTURE OF A BUTTERFLY! on the phone. Ok back to reality now, Raymiality.

Dear Diary, I have found a new replacement for men today and it is called Yogurty’s. Love, ALL WOMEN.

I was just going to take back my previous silly joke but then I looked at a picture of the following.

And then we prepared to tuck in.

I performed a holy feminist voodoo food courtesy sparkle blog princess prayer of thanks and we were off. Heaven on BB UK is totally out to lunch and gives thanks to the stars and egyptian god of the sun and other ridiculous stuff, Teacher says she is saying AMON-RA which no one has chanted in over 4000 years. THE SUN KING! I LOVE REALITY TV. I think Raymiality TV is just as niche/neat sounding as Raymitheminx TV, yeah?

Wizard humour. LOVE MY BLINGY Butterfly. That’s two butterfly references now.

The paparazzi said Jen had an aristocratic thing going on. She has a nice smile too.

We gossiped up a storm, talked shop, and toasted cups to our excellence. We are lifers.

I guess blogs are a kind of sentence in a way, I am sentenced to life. Could write sentences for life, omg I tricked myself into this. Do you like my earrings? I wanted to match Yogurty’s. I’m a fan girl. Ps. @yogurtys on twitter. They’re ramping up a sweepstakes Ipad contest this Saturday all you gotta do is LIKE them on Facebook and you’re entered but I don’t want you to do that because I want to win it ;).

The quality of toppings are top-notch. Shavings of chocolate, actual shavings not splinters of chintzy stuff. Oodles of flavour in everything also it’s neat how the strawberries turn frozen throughout your eating experience from contact with the yogurt. I notice everything because I am obsessive like that I am like a Hello Kitty Woody Allen. WILL SOMEONE PLEASE LOVE ME.

Blaha I forgot to ask Jen what she thought about this yogurt, I think the empty tub was enough plus I was too conceited about how I had decorated mine with the utmost of deliciousness. Yes my competitiveness is exhausting, no there is no off button. Maybe for Ten thousand dollars I would go away for a month.

Next time I am hiring a hair and makeup team and not forgetting where I am. It’s hard though cos you are lulled into a dessert reverie and it feels like bubblegum therapy.

I liked that kid’s ride. Refrained from sitting in it.

I obsessed about these I passed on buying in Miami but then the same jewelry store was in San Diego so I got a chance of redemption. I blew $100 there and got a lot of stuff.

Cool attracts cool.

It’s easy to pretend to be listening to your girlfriend with diva shades on and a spoon in your mouth. Perf Girl’s night out Homebase.

Or a setting for a hilarious heist chick flick.

On your way out don’t forget to pose by their built-in red carpet back-drop.

I propose a contest for facebook for best customer catwalk. Win a Yogurty’s party.

Actually, no contest. We win.

I was copying Veruca Salt from Charlie and the Chocolate factory licking the snozzberry wallpaper. (Please don’t lick the walls of any Yogurty’s establishments, thank you).

Was just searching for blueberry properties (I know that schisandra berries are a super fruit according to my cleanse coach jeannette) on the internet then got seriously bored (buzzkilled) by wikipedia and still didn’t figure it out BUT I learned this interesting tidbit: Canadian exports of blueberries in 2007 were C$323 million, the largest fruit crop produced nationally, occupying more than half of all Canadian fruit acreage.

Um how much do you want to eat an Oreo cookie with fluorescent yellow icing the size of my head right now?

Just let me pick you up it will be a good idea I swear!

Next time, ball gowns and a new location. XOXO

ps. blog title is a play on FOR YOUR LOVE By the Yardbirds. I was a mod back in the mod club days in Toronto, but I was too cool to admit it. We’d dance to Mark Holmes’ (platinum blonde) spinning for your love (It’s just nice that the yardbirds post-humously endorse froyo, thanks guys!), and she’s a rainbow, taxman, all the good classic moddy tracks.

FROYO LOVE FROYO LOVE I WOULD GIVE THE STARS ABOVE!