Author: Bill

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

My stupid autofocus blurred the sign I was trying to shoot. Here is the message the meat department wished to convey: (71 too many characters for Twitter)

ATTENTION Dear Valued Customers
PLEASE NOTE> NO LINES for the following items
REGULAR KEEMA & CHICKEN KEEMA
Any Meat Items AS IT IS i.e. No CUTS OR CLEAN
Past/Late numbers under 10 only will be Accepted

Wonderful Iqbal Foods is worth a visit.

While salvaging data from a Western Digital “My Passport” hard drive that had gone into click-of-death mode, I discovered this big icon for the Mac TextEdit app. I recognize the copy from one of Apple’s Think Different ad campaigns, but who’s Kate?
[Update: Turns out KATE is KDE Advanced Text Editor.]
Oh, yes, you might want to know how I got the files off the defunct portable hard drive…

The BIBLIO-MAT from Craig Small on Vimeo.

This posting is here primarily as a reminder to myself to pay a visit to this unusual Toronto business.
The Monkey’s Paw
Tuesday to Saturday:
11 to 6
Sunday:
12 to 5
1229 Dundas St. West, Toronto
(between Ossington & Dovercourt, directly across from the LCBO)
416.531.2123

Maybe the pizza is OK, never tried it, but forget the burger. It’s about as bland as cardboard and doesn’t even come with relish to help add some flavour. The coffee is so-so, too.
There’s a fairly new Boston Pizza at Leslie and Lakeshore and we went there for lunch today. We do like their salads and onion soup, so we thought we’d support their local presence. There are many more worthy choices in the area, so we’ll leave Boston Pizza to those who treasure easy parking.

My friend Brian has amassed a formidable collection of action figures by astute bidding on eBay. There is a huge community of avid collectors out there and they really know their stuff. Figures are valued for rarity, condition and uniqueness. Experts know about molds that were used, defects in particular production runs, colour anomalies, dates… all kinds of amazing details.

Brian with part of his collection

For all the hype, hair-pulling and hand-wringing by news media, none of us… not a single one… will plunge off any fiscal cliff.

People without Stephen Harper’s access to millions of tax dollars have political messages, too. On today’s walk, I noticed one of them.