Gay Pride Week is on the horizon and the excitement is building in Toronto! And that’s not the only thing that’s building!
The Dyke March and Gay Pride Parade will be winding past the Yonge-Bloor intersection in just a week’s time, so Toronto’s hard-working and conscientious road crews are making sure the intersection is in typically-Toronto [...]

For your Friday enjoyment, the new BearForce1 song:
It’s impossible to adequately describe — or completely catalogue — the awfulness of this song and video. Unless y’all would like to try, of course, since I’m still trying to figure out why their style and iconography resembles a nursery. Or why only 37.5% of the group could [...]

So, let’s say you bought a Hollywood movie on DVD for, say, twenty bucks. And that twenty bucks went to the distributor and studio, as it should. You’re going to the cottage for the weekend and want to watch your movie there but your damned DVD player is busted so you rip the copy-protected DVD [...]

Q: What goes through the mind of a Toronto road worker when he’s installing traffic-diversion signs at the Yonge-Bloor intersection?
A:

Trick Question! He Has No Discernible Mind At All!

So, Tourism Toronto recently unveiled its latest bid to get more visitors to the city and… well, it doesn’t get high grades from blogTO commenters, the majority of whom voted that “at least it’s not Toronto Unlimited,” referring to a previous, inscrutable and Just Plain Bad ad campaign. Is it that the city can’t afford [...]

From EurekaAlert:
The scientists, from Europe and the USA, say that their research, published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, provides evidence that life’s raw materials came from sources beyond the Earth.
The materials they have found include the molecules uracil and xanthine, which are precursors to the molecules that make up DNA and RNA, [...]

Today was one of those days which remind Torontonians just how narrow our summer beaching window is. And, really, living in the Yonge-Bloor neighbourhood really does lend itself to Getting The Fuck Out Of The Yonge-Bloor Neighbourhood, especially when, the day before, you actually witnessed a 60something crazywoman hiking up her spandex miniskirt to slide [...]

Q: What happens when several dozen teenagers in Guy Fawkes masks, with tubs of chalk and a penchant for annoying cults descend on the Yonge-Bloor neighbourhood?
A:

Q: What happens after several dozen teenagers in Guy Fawkes masks, tubs of chalk and a penchant for annoying cults descend on the Yonge-Bloor neighbourhood?
A:

Q: Would you describe the number [...]

Stop Making βeta

Well, Federal Conservative Minister of Industry Jim “Fucknuts” Prentice tabled yesterday the bill I mentioned a few weeks ago. And it’s bad. Bad for ordinary Canadians. Bad for Canadian businesses. And, like most legislation crafted, essentially, by paid industry lobbyists, Bill C-61 is hugely one-sided in its “protections” for copyright holders and only superficially attractive [...]

“Citizen of the Planet”, Alanis Morissette, Flavors of Entanglement:
…her latest album doesn’t rage like ‘You Oughta Know” — it sounds more like grief.
– Ellen Carpenter, Rolling Stone
Flavors Of Entanglement is Alanis at her most upbeat and at her happiest.
– Amy Sciarretto, Artist Direct

Luminato Opening Night Preparations
Dundas Square, Toronto, 3PM, 6 June 2008
Man, it was hot in Toronto today. The kind of heat that makes you forget how fucking awful the past winter really was. The kind of humidity that makes walking a block as sweaty as if you’d just completed 30 minutes of rigorous cardio exercise.
And I [...]

Best. Breakup. Ever.:
While watching MuchMusic, lounging on the bed, 1998…
B: So, listen…
G: Yeah?
B: I was wondering… Are we still boyfriends?
G: I dunno. D’ya want to be?
B: Y’know… I don’t think so. Do you?
G: Not really.
B: Okay.
G: Cool.
B: So…
G: Yeah?
B: What do you want to watch now?

One of these signs is not like the other sign:

Date: Friday, 6 Juneth 2008
Time: 9:00AM
Place: 1 Bloor
Bloor & Yonge

Date: Friday, May 30th 2008
Time: 8:00AM
Place: 1 Bloor
Bloor & Yonge
Demolition is not starting, huh? This bodes well for the planned occupancy date, doesn’t it?
It’s The Toronto Way™, yo.

Obama Posters by Artist Shepard Fairey
Y’know, there’s considerable (and justifiable) controversy over the originality of artist Shepard Fairey’s work — like here and here — but these iconic Obama posters get a solid pass, resonating with the imagery of a time we feared had been forgotten. A time of hope. And equality. And [...]