Defined and Undefined (8:45PM, 10 May 2009, Toronto)
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This is the entrance to the Bay at Yonge and Bloor Streets in downtown Toronto. It’s also the entrance to the most-visited subway stop covering the two most-traveled transit lines in the city. This is how we roll in Toronto:
It would be funny if it wasn’t so fucking shabby and inept and [...] May 10th, 2009 | Categories: Bad Ads, Bad Behaviour, Duh, News for Moms, Stupidity, Toronto, What Time Is It?, WTF? |
 One commentYou had to laugh. Springtime in Toronto is always… interesting when it comes to our roadways. No city is immune to potholes but every year, Toronto’s potholes are increasingly epidemic. Here’s why you had to laugh: City Councillor Karen Stintz has proposed corporate-sponsored road repair in the city: “People realize and they know that the potholes are [...] May 7th, 2009 | Categories: Bad Behaviour, Duh, Stupidity, Toronto, War on Science, WTF? |
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The sun sets on Toronto Freedom Festival at Queen’s Park May 3rd, 2009 | Categories: Bad Behaviour, IntoxiBlogging™, Toronto, What Time Is It? |
 Leave a commentFrom Mercer’s 2009 Quality of Living Survey: Top 5 Cities (Wordwide, Quality of Life) Vienna, Austria (1st) Top 5 Cities (Worldwide, Infrastructure) Singapore, Singapore (1st) Top 5 Cities (North America, Quality of Life) Vancouver, Canada (tied [...] April 29th, 2009 | Categories: Canada v. USA, Religion is Bad, Self-Pimping, Toronto, Vancouver, What Time Is It? |
10 commentsVideo: Philips Television Ad H/T: Gawker It’s with considerable relief that I return to semiregular posts here. I’ve hinted at a couple of the reasons but only now am feeling up to talking about it. Or, rather, them. So here’s the deal for those of you interested and who haven’t already collected a slice’s worth of the scant breadcrumbs dropped here and [...] Metric’s Fantasies Do me a favour and scroll to “Gold Guns Girls” in the above widget? Then press PLAY. Thanks. April 19th, 2009 | Categories: Bad Behaviour, Bliss, IntoxiBlogging™, This Hear, Toronto |
3 commentsSo I’m in Vanvouver for a couple of days with Champ, after spending a couple in Calgary with my Mom and Dad. It’s been 15 years since I’ve been in Vancouver and in that time it grew up, a lot. It reminds me of the way I felt about Toronto 23 years ago. This is [...] April 11th, 2009 | Categories: Bad Behaviour, Bliss, Self-Pimping, Toronto, Vancouver, What Time Is It? |
7 commentsManuLife Centre ValuMart, Toronto (6PM, 3 April 2009) So what do you do when you’re a broken city on the edge — like the rest of the world — of a giant economic depression? What do you do when you’re a city with a public transit system that doesn’t work, a traffic grid that doesn’t work, increasing unemployment, construction halted at several major [...] March 14th, 2009 | Categories: Bad Behaviour, IntoxiBlogging™, Sarcasm, Stupidity, This Hear, Toronto |
9 commentsI awoke this morning to a newscast featuring the latest in Ottawa, our nation’s capitol: Canada’s Humanist Association is holding a protest against the banning of the atheist bus ads of which I’ve spoken, endlessly, in these pages. Yes, in the seat of our egalitarian country, it is forbidden to suggest on public transit that [...] (from Oblique Strategies, “Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas”, by Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt — Third Edition) If I was to submit an Oblique Strategy to Acute Strategies (link above), this week’s would be: The ease and speed with which you discard The Present should give The Future pause Hey, you know what we haven’t done lately? We haven’t visited Toronto’s Yonge/Bloor district — aka the “Glittering Shithole of Toronto-the-Shabby” — lately! So, hey, let’s go!!! One block west of Toronto’s Yonge & Bloor intersection is some of the most expensive retail real estate in Canada. One block south of Yonge & Bloor is Charles [...] March 1st, 2009 | Categories: Bad Behaviour, Duh, IntoxiBlogging™, Sarcasm, Stupidity, Toronto, WTF? |
4 commentsKingdom (5:30PM, Toronto, 15 February 2009) Stop (5:30PM, Toronto, 15 February 2009) February 15th, 2009 | Categories: Awesome, Bliss, IntoxiBlogging™, Toronto, What Time Is It? |
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