Via Joey deVilla’s blog, a link to The Bloor, a documentary film about The Bloor Cinema.
The Bloor is a pretty special place for me. It’s where I met Jenna back in 2005, and it’s where I proposed a few years later. You can watch the whole doc in two parts on YouTube:
Sometime in 2007, I bought a pair of Blundstones from the Australian Boot Company. They were great boots, and they became very very comfortable over time. This morning, I noticed that the sole of the left boot was coming apart:
I sent a quick email to the Queen Street location, with a link to the photo, asking for suggestions. About ten minutes later, I received a response from an actual human being named Andria. She told me to bring the boots in to have them assessed for warranty.
I brought my boots to the shop after work this evening, and they replaced them with a brand new pair, under warranty, with no receipt (Andria found a record of my purchase in their database).
Colour me impressed.
Yup, the screeching is back, as of this morning:
The TTC has scheduled streetcar service to resume along the Queen Street East bridge across the Don River at 5 a.m. today. Construction at Church and Queen Streets continues to disrupt streetcar service.
Via Transit Toronto
We’ve been to Ed’s Real Scoop in Leslieville several times this summer, and I can’t believe I didn’t notice this visual gag sooner:
According to this week’s Now, Ed’s is one of Toronto’s top ten ice cream shops. Personally, I prefer the gelato.
The horrible streetcar screetching at Queen and Parliament that I wrote about? For the past week, we’ve been spared. It seems that the previous diversion has been diverted by more construction on the Queen East bridge. So until August 27, the 501 will take this convoluted route:
501 Queen Streetcars will divert eastbound, from Yonge St.; east on Queen St., south on Victoria St., east on Adelaide St., south on Church St., east on King St., north on Parliament St., east on Dundas St., south on Broadview Ave., east on Queen St. to route. Streetcars will divert westbound, from Coxwell Ave.; west on Queen St., north on Broadview Ave., west on Dundas St., south on Parliament St., west on King St., north on Church St., west on Richmond St., north on Victoria St., west on Queen St. to route.
Laura and I tried to get to the subway today via the 501, and boy, was it confusing.
Compliments of Mr. Tristan Homer, a new episode of Jim Dupree: Enthusiast. This time, Jim is enthusiastic about the city of Pickering, Ontario:
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m in a brand new rock and roll back band called The Sweat.
We play Spinal Tap-inspired tough-guy rock, with tongue planted firmly in cheek.
We’re playing our first ever full-length show this Thursday, July 9 at the El Mocambo with two other bands: Huron and Sandman Viper Command. We’d love to see you there.
There’s a Facebook event for the show, if you’re into that kind of thing.
I like the underlying tension of my new iPhone wallpaper. Steve Jobs’s smooth, shiny slider beckons me to head right, to unlock the phone and start fiddling around on the internet. But at the same time, crudely painted Bain Avenue graffiti suggests I should put the phone back in my pocket and continue to live in the real world.
In late December, Jenna and I finally received our Northbound Southbound vinyl wall decal from walloper.com. It’s awesome. We love it.
But though the decal itself is terrific, and looks great in our apartment, the shipping and customer service from Walloper was abysmal. We ordered the decal on November 20, and it didn’t arrive until more than a month later, on December 23rd. In the meantime, Jenna sent several emails, the first of which was ignored or lost (Derek at Walloper cited a “spot of trouble with our email provider”), and they misquoted delivery timelines twice. I understand that walloper is a small company with an overnight success on their hands, and I realize that it’s run by a small handful of people. But still, I can’t help but feel like they could have handled us a little better.
Still… the product is pretty cool:
The Popeyes Chicken at Queen and Sherbourne is now open for business:
To “celebrate,” I now present this 0:30 MP3 version of a fake ad produced by Tristan and I for our first live-to-air radio show in first year audio at Ryerson:
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