Nov 29
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olYjeFFnKFY&rel=1] Someone, apparently affiliated with the Ontario College of Art and Design, planted a fake bomb at the Royal Ontario Museum and interrupted an AIDS benefit of some kind. It’s totally inappropriate to interrupt a disease benefit with a fake bomb. Inappropriate but amusing. The fake video of the fake bombing is all right too. …
Nov 24
Last year, around this time, I bought a Star Trek calender. Then my life exploded. I’m not saying that it was the calender’s fault. But I will not be buying a Star Trek calender this year. You know; just in case it was the calender’s fault. But some people are less cautious than I. …
Sep 13
The Dubai Tower is now the world’s tallest freestanding building. It did not replace the CN Tower as the CBC and other sites that tend to get things wrong are reporting. It replaced Taiwan’s Taipei 101. But Canada is insane. We are constantly lied to about our achievements. In school, I learned about that great …
Jul 06
There is no such thing as a public washroom in Toronto. But in China they just built a four story, 32, 290 square foot washroom palace. It contains 1,000 toilets. These ambitious commies have said: “We are spreading toilet culture. People can listen to gentle music and watch TV. After they use the bathroom they …
May 02
Karim Rashid builds some pretty incredible shit. And he has the thing that every artist needs and too many lack: A manifesto. In this document he says that: “I believe that we could be living in an entirely different world – one that is full of real contemporary inspiring objects, spaces, places, worlds, spirits and …
Apr 10
We Toronto folk think people from B.C. are some pretty damn weird hippies who spend most of day wearing hemp sandals and smoking dope in the woods while praying to the Earth Mother and being eaten by bears. But it’s okay. They think we’re a bunch of self-absorbed, greedy, shallow, planet haters, who drive around …
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