Danger Due to Domolition Work
1 Bloor Street East, Toronto, 23 July 2008
And you wonder why construction in downtown Toronto takes seven times longer than it should, is undertaken between three and eight times until it’s done properly and inconveniences citizens to a laughably ridiculous degree.

Snickers™ ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi4DEdUmA6A

Nike Hyperdunk™ ad:

There’s an enormous brouhaha over the ads above over at Joe.My.God. and, especially, Towleroad, and it’s not the kind of brouhaha I like to see. It’s allegedly socially- and politically-engaged gay men falling all over themselves telling us that we seriously need to get over it with this nervous-nelly, finding of homophobia [...]

I don’t want to appear unnecessarily petty — as opposed to necessarily petty — since there’s a war going on and people are dying ‘n’ stuff, and I really don’t want to sound all Jerry Seinfeld at this stage of my life, but I can’t, for the life of me, understand how it is that [...]

Two Blasphemies Concerning Aaron Eckhart and The Dark Knight:

As hot as Christian Bale is — and he is smokin’ — Aaron Eckhart is much, much hotter.
As kick-ass awesome as Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker is — and it’s a tour de force, to be sure — Aaron Eckhart’s performance as Harvey Dent kicks more [...]

I’ll admit it. I like The Wizard of Oz. The movie, I mean. And, no, not because I’m a fan of camp (I so am not). Not because I’m an old-school homo and love Judy Garland (I so am not and so do not). And not because I know all the dialog and love to [...]

There is something wrong
With the Republican mind
Something really wrong
…
From Huffington Post:
Republican Senator [Elizabeth] Dole introduced an amendment to name an HIV/AIDS relief bill after the recently deceased Jesse Helms. Helms, of course, was a strident foe of HIV/AIDS prevention, research and treatment. The blog Joe.My.God recalls some of Helms’ notable moments in AIDS relief:
Jesse Helms, [...]

So I saw Hellboy II: The Golden Army this afternoon, alone — which is often the best way to enjoy such fare — and I totally enjoyed the fuck out of it.
I mean, how can you not? The actors, now quite firmly established in their characters, can flex and grunt as they playfully massage the [...]

Little Britain Star Matt Lucas and Others Watch David Beckham in Action

Current weather in downtown Toronto, 6:15AM, 11 July 2008, according to www.foreca.com:

Current weather in downtown Toronto, 6:15AM, 11 July 2008, according to going outside and looking:

They’re trying to be funny, right? Fail.

It’s Batman, dammit!

A Batmobile, Eaton Centre, Toronto
10 July 2008
More photos after the jump…