Month: November 2012

Sculptor Alastair Dickson first caught my eye with ingenious creations he called The Brutish Museum. Today, I was happy to see that one window of the 1847 Danforth Avenue studio is his stage once again.
Reflections on the window glass make these devilishly difficult to photograph, so I’ll just show you 3 of the 9 boxes that make up the current display. If you are in the neighbourhood, do drop by and see them all. They are marvellous.

Many of our city streets are rutted, potholed wagon trails here in Toronto, but other Canadian cities probably need some citizen input, too. Here’s your chance… click the picture and report a problem.
I am going to add the link to my list of favourites. Our street lights keep going dark.

The widget above uses TinEye to create its effects, but you can use it to make images search for images. Here’s what TinEye says about itself:

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. TinEye regularly crawls the web for new images, and we also accept contributions of complete online image collections. To date, there are 2,221,049,210 images in our image database.

Want to give it a whirl?

There’s a bit of green space trapped between a road and a parking lot near Kingston Road and Queen Street East. It’s full of blue posts and today my curiosity got the better of me. Dedicated to the memory of one Marco Muzzo, a developer of the residences and parklands that replaced the old Greenwood Racetrack,

How much good news can Torontonians handle?
The judge has removed Rob Ford from office. We have a chance to recover from the mistake of ever letting him into office. I’m not sure whether it will be necessary to get a replacement mayor, but I think we’d be better off with none than the one we had.
I hope Rob Ford will just go away and coach high school football. He likes that better than being mayor and he’s good at it, apparently. His stubborness may drive him to appeals that are costly and distracting for the city, though.

Most visits to this site come from Canada, as you might expect. When I noticed that this month’s table shows China listed as second, I was surprised.

Danica never saw this front page in her home town newspaper. She had hitch-hiked to Vancouver in time for the Gastown Riots… August, 1971. Click here to see the whole paper, want ads and all. Search for your old home town paper. too.
Can you spot Danica in Vancouver?…

This sensitive portrait by Emil Orlik is 100 years old… just one of hundreds of beautiful book illustrations available here.

Hard to beat this idea for a casual, very affordable and delicious lunch. Brian Hickey treated Donna and me to fresh-made grilled sandwiches from the Kitchen inside the 3 month old Longo’s Store on Laird Avenue. Brian and I had peameal bacon sandwiches smothered in mushrooms, mozzarella cheese, peppers (Brian) and onions (me). Donna was just as happy with her grilled panini with vegetables and goat cheese. Wonderful! And the grill cooks were cheerful and friendly.
We took our sandwiches upstairs