Month: February 2014

The car detects the swimming direction of the fish and steers in that direction. I just think it’s funny. I wonder if the goldfish enjoys getting out for a drive.

An inviting front gallery called Art Square leads to little café tables and great crepes for lunch. They’ll even make your crepes with gluten-free rice flour for an extra $1.50. Crepes ran from $5 to around $12. We ordered nice ones in the $7 – $9 dollar range. Delicious and satisfying. Large coffee (only $2.25) was fresh and good.

We went to the Art Gallery of Ontario today, to see The Great Upheaval show. The video gives a good outline, so I will score the day in another way.

With twisted logic worthy of a Rob Ford, the Conservatives are sticking it to Elections Canada because the Conservatives were caught cheating in the last election.
It’s shoot the messenger time again in Harperland.

Thank you for the opportunity to see the current Harold Town exhibition, especially the Enigma drawings that have fascinated me for decades. Until this afternoon, I’d only seen them in reproductions and much smaller than the originals.

I can never decide how I feel about Harold Town. Obviously, he was a good artist, a genuine craftsman and a productive, hard worker. His skill as a draughtsman sometimes fills me with awe. The Enigma drawings combine beautifully easy, free brushstrokes with painstaking detail. I can’t think of anything like them. They are very well made.

What could we have had for our nearly 15 million spent on self-serving Conservative advertising?
Those 8 Veterans Affairs offices could have been kept open, and that would only use up 6 million. Might have saved Harper from a fight with some feisty old soldiers.
There has never been a balanced Harper budget. Flaherty’s new budget will be the 7th deficit budget in a row.

It’s about time Don Straathof made an appearance on this blog. He first got in touch years ago, when he wrote for more information about a Helen Andersen lithograph that he had purchased. The colourful Dutchman has a good eye as well as a sense of humour.
The snapshots arrived in today’s email. Apparently Don has found someplace sandy and warm to spend the winter. His message about the coconut hazard:

“They tried to warn me. But I thought, what are the chances of them falling on me? Wooden shoes, wooden head, wouldn’t listen!”

After lunch at Occasions, Bill Byres and I went to see what’s up at GAS. Above, Bill prepares for a better look at one of his favourite finds; a painted wood wall sculpture by Cy Williams.

Compare with regular security in the post below.

Safely frozen into place, the bike awaits riding weather.
Why the conventional U-lock, too? It’s just there for the few transitional hours between Toronto Winter and Toronto Summer. That’s a way off, still.