A few thoughts about Massive Change

So a few more things about Massive Change that didn't make it into my Torontoist piece:

In note form:

All this stuff was in Wired Magazine last year....

This feels like EPCOT, where's the monorail? And where's the overpriced food at the Japan Pavillion? (Sarah L. my editor felt like this too)

Why is the rubber chicken the defining souvenir from Massive Change? Is this a joke?

The room of photos is pretty cool!

Not being able to touch the cool textiles isn't, they're textiles damnit.

What?! No flying cars?

eye on blogs

Ooh, eye Weekly writes about blogs. I don't really agree with their picks for Toronto city blogs, but hey, no such thing as bad coverage.

Also, I'm scared of Bruce Mau (pictured here on the left). Here's why.

Bowling for Immigrants

No, it's not the new Michael Moore film. It's my friend's event.

Bowlers of the World Unite!
a fundraiser for immigrant rights

5-pins and a glowing disco ball!
Live music set from The Pick-Ups!
Rockin' tunes courtesy of Rose B. and Kristine K.!
Raffle Prizes from Cheese Magic, Images Festival,
I Deal Coffee,
Public,
Uprising Books, and more!
and... a LUNGE CONTEST!
with MC Maggie M. stirring up trouble!

@ Danforth Bowl
(1554 Danforth Ave., just steps west from Coxwell
subway station)
Friday March 18th, 7:30pm - midnight

$10-$20 sliding scale for a full night of bowling fun.
All proceeds from the event will benefit No One is
Illegal (Toronto).

Just in case you were wondering here are the pickups, aren't they just adorable.




Also raffle prizes from where I buy my cheese and my coffee! Bowling, alt country, and a good cause! How can you lose?!

Meanwhile, in another part of Boy Reporter's Brain

Boy Reporter is also Boy PR person. Here's an event I'm helping organize. Come on down if you're in Toronto and interested in policy (and who isn't!)

Title: POLICY FROM THE GROUND UP

Date: Tuesday, March 22

Time: Reception, 6:30pm; speeches begin 7:15pm

Place: International Living Learning Centre, Ryerson University.
International Room.

Confirmed Speakers:

BOB RAE, Author of the Rae Report on Post-Secondary Education;

KEN OGILVIE, Executive Director of Pollution Probe;

DAVID MESLIN Coordinator of the Toronto Public Space Committee and

GUY GIORNO, lawyer – Fasken and Martineau and former Mike Harris Chief of Staff.

Jens? Jens!

Go see my post on Torontoist about this man. After you read the post, go buy his album.

Swoon...

Sheila Heti (known as Mrs. Zoilus in some circles), quite possibly one of the first people I met in Toronto, all around great person and great writer has a new site and a new book (pictured here). I'm trying to wrangle her for an interview on Torontoist.

Crazy for Comics!

I picked up Men of Tommorow at the library today. A book about the early early days of comic books. Coincidentally this is the historical setting for one of my favourite books EVER Michael Chabon's Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay. I read comic books when I was a kid, and heck I read comic books now too. I find it interesting how the genre has become quite normalized and almost no longer has a stigma attached to it.

This is all old news of course, Art Spiegelman won a Pulitzer for Maus, Adrian Tomine does covers for the New Yorker and a book about a boy and his comics (the very same Kavalier and Klay also won a Pulitzer!)

I was also reminded by Guy Leshinski over at the Cultural Gutter that I should make my way up to the Toronto Reference Library to catch the comics exhibit before it closes.

Boy Reporter on Mixed Media Watch

It's official.... I'm contributing to yet another blog! You can find my writing on the Bloggie nominated site Mixed Media Watch. The boys and girls at MMC look at representations of mixed race peoples in the media, race relations and more. Always a good read.

T-Shirt Watch continues

What's not to like about these shirts.... the tag line is awesome, "putting the racy back in conspiracy." Thanks boing boing.