The title says it all...the dancing kid in the red sweater sells this for me. G'damn.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
20 odd things about Toronto
The Toronto Star's Adam Mayers lists 20 odd things about our city, in his Looking Back column.
Some odd facts about Toronto's history include:
Lord Stanley, of Cup fame, came to the Ex (CNE) in the summer of 1888 when he was Governor-General. The buzz that year was Thomas Edison's phonograph. Stanley recorded a short greeting to U.S. president Grover Cleveland, which was the first recording made in Canada.
The St. Lawrence market was the centre of town during the early part of the 19th century and market day was the highlight of the week, a place to buy, sell and trade and meet friends. For about 30 years, petty criminals were strung up there along with sides of beef. Some were put in stocks or pillories on market day, where being pelted with refuse and heckled by passersby was part of the humiliation of their sentence.
In the 1850s you didn't take the kids to the Island for a good time. It was home to a rough crowd who frequented the seedy bars, brothels and gambling joints. Toronto's first racetrack ran between Ward's and Centre Islands.
Read the whole story.
Some odd facts about Toronto's history include:
Lord Stanley, of Cup fame, came to the Ex (CNE) in the summer of 1888 when he was Governor-General. The buzz that year was Thomas Edison's phonograph. Stanley recorded a short greeting to U.S. president Grover Cleveland, which was the first recording made in Canada.
The St. Lawrence market was the centre of town during the early part of the 19th century and market day was the highlight of the week, a place to buy, sell and trade and meet friends. For about 30 years, petty criminals were strung up there along with sides of beef. Some were put in stocks or pillories on market day, where being pelted with refuse and heckled by passersby was part of the humiliation of their sentence.
In the 1850s you didn't take the kids to the Island for a good time. It was home to a rough crowd who frequented the seedy bars, brothels and gambling joints. Toronto's first racetrack ran between Ward's and Centre Islands.
Read the whole story.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
SCTV reunion!
SCTV alum and comedy legends Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Harold Ramis, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara and Martin Short will be reuniting for two days at the Second City Theatre on Mercer St. to perform together for the first time in 24 years.
100% of the proceeds from the event benefit The Alumni Fund – helping the people that helped us make you laugh. The Alumni Fund raises funds to help veteran artistic and support personnel from SCTV and The Second City that are facing health or financial hardship.
The reunion will be May 5 and 6.
Read the Toronto Star story.
100% of the proceeds from the event benefit The Alumni Fund – helping the people that helped us make you laugh. The Alumni Fund raises funds to help veteran artistic and support personnel from SCTV and The Second City that are facing health or financial hardship.
The reunion will be May 5 and 6.
Read the Toronto Star story.
Smile of the Week
Man arrested in Texas for trying to cash $360 billion check. That's fuckin' brilliant!
This image taken from video provided Thursday, May 1, 2008 by KXAS-TV in Fort Worth, Texas,
Read the Denver Post story
This image taken from video provided Thursday, May 1, 2008 by KXAS-TV in Fort Worth, Texas,
Read the Denver Post story
The Toronto Star's 10 Things We Learned This Week
Some of the things we learned this week, according to the Toronto Star's weekly feature "10 Things We Learned This Week" includes:
You can use cricket chirps to calculate the temperature (in Celsius): Count the number of chirps in 25 seconds. Divide by 3. Add 4
Ronald Reagan is the first and only presidential candidate to be endorsed by TV Guide.
China, which has the world's largest weather-modification program – with 30,000 employees and a yearly budget of about $100 million – hopes to provide sunshine for the August Olympics by "seeding" clouds with rain-inducing particles beforehand.
Read the story here.
You can use cricket chirps to calculate the temperature (in Celsius): Count the number of chirps in 25 seconds. Divide by 3. Add 4
Ronald Reagan is the first and only presidential candidate to be endorsed by TV Guide.
China, which has the world's largest weather-modification program – with 30,000 employees and a yearly budget of about $100 million – hopes to provide sunshine for the August Olympics by "seeding" clouds with rain-inducing particles beforehand.Read the story here.
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