| condo design |
[10 Jun 2007|10:11pm] |
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What is with the trend of random thin oft-coloured rectangles? M5V, Festival, Spire, Murano.
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| waterfront designs |
[16 Apr 2007|08:39pm] |
There are some good designs on display right now at the BCE Place galleria for the Lower Don Lands. I'd go back with someone if they were inclined. However you don't have to see it with me if you have no other choice. This one is by Weiss/Manfredi & du Toit Allsopp Hillier
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| citynotes |
[04 Apr 2007|06:23pm] |
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So, by now we've become very familiar with the countdown intersections. My question is, what's the longest countdown in the city? Front and Spadina has a 24 second countdown. Can anyone beat that?
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| i'm back |
[26 Mar 2007|11:37pm] |
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So I've been asked to come back to live journal. In return for this favour, I've decided to make most of my entries in line with the spirit of my username and express my unsolicited musings about the built environment in the city. To begin, let me say that Procom just placed their corporate logo on two faces of 2323 Yonge, destroying the modernist building's pleasant facade.
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| Family guy fans unite |
[05 Nov 2006|12:37pm] |
For a particularly incensing article go here:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1162642072493&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home
It angers me when Simpsons supporters try to discredit Family Guy because they are so wrong, as this article shows. In their present forms, Family Guy is beyond question, far superior to the Simpsons. It is fresh where the Simpsons is stale. It is true to its beginnings where the Simpsons has lost all of its wit and charm.
What upsets me most is when Simpsons proponents claim some sort of primacy, as if they invented cartoons, invented the dysfunctional family, invented the idiot dad, and now, according to this article, invented the flashback. Clearly, one needs only to think of the Flintstones to show that none of this is true. Not to mention that idiot fathers are a convention of American sitcoms, from Archie Bunker to Tim Taylor.
The article quotes an apparent animation expert Jerry Beck, but how can we take Beck seriously? No sooner has he finished saying that family guy is corporate board-room cartoon making with no heart, than he admits that family guy is mostly written and acted by Seth Macfarlane. What's worse, if there is anywhere a show that is more the definition of corporate cartoon making, it is The Simpsons. Through its 19 seasons, the writers, directors and runners have changed so often that these positions have become like caretaker roles for the network's income trust. And how can Beck suggest that Family Guy, more than the Simpsons, is a cash grab when The Simpsons has outlived its creativity but remains on the air after 19 years. For the last 10 years, the Simpsons has been recycling storylines, mocking itself and degenerating into ridiculousness that eats away at the legacy of its earlier superior episodes. In the beginning, the Simpsons was a smart, witty show that told actual stories. Despite their comic flaws, the characters had human emotions. Now, the plots follow no logic and the individuality of its characters has been lost. In a way, the show is now closer in tone and style to Family Guy but Family Guy does it better and Family Guy did not sell its soul to become that way.
Rayner contends that the Griffin family makeup is a copy of the Simpsons with the exception of a sociopathic infant and a talking dog. Well any Family Guy fan will tell you that apart from Peter, these are the defining characters of the show and responsible for most of its ingenuity and success. Family Guy did not become good by copying the Simpsons. Most of the plot revolves around these three and Lois, while Chris and Meg, (ostensibly Bart and Lisa), have minor roles.
In sum, Family Guy is the champion of current cartoon sitcoms. Like that time the Simpsons was good.
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| Stupid Ticketmaster |
[13 May 2006|10:12am] |
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There was an error processing my order. Unfortunately, it was already three minutes after tickets went on sale and they were sold out. This never happened with Philadelphia. There are too many people in Toronto. I want half of them eliminated.
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| I bought a Gillette Fusion |
[12 May 2006|10:49am] |
Having five blades really does reduce the pressure, though I foresee the need to add a sixth blade in a few years.
Last chance for Chili Peppers tix. Otherwise I'm going to buy just two expensive tickets.
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| Done diddily un |
[07 May 2006|03:36pm] |
Yay for being done.
So Red Hot Chili Pepper tickets are on sale Saturday. They play September 25th. Let me know if you are interested.
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| goo goo |
[25 Apr 2006|04:27pm] |
to all my Toronto bound friends this summer:
The Goo Goo Dolls are touring with the Counting Crows this summer and they stop in Toronto on Monday July 24th. Let me know soon if you are interested. No ticket info is available yet.
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| presented for your consideration |
[15 Apr 2006|09:17pm] |
Is it possible for a relationship to become legal non-conforming? That is, if you tried to build it today it wouldn't work, but because it's been around for so long, you can't get rid of it?
As my undergrad draws to a close, I'm wondering if one or more of my friendships isn't becoming like that.
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| for you toronto people |
[12 Apr 2006|10:22am] |
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There is an exhibit going on at the AGO until May 7th that chronicles the works of architect Frank Gehry. I highly recommend you all go on the logic that if I like it, everybody will. There will be scale models among other things. And if someone goes and takes pictures of the models, I would be much obliged.
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| coldplay et al |
[09 Apr 2006|11:42pm] |
Coldplay was great fun. Wished I was on the floor but what can you do.
Spring Fling also fun despite the inconsistent weather. This week it's back to reality, oops, here comes gravity etc.
That's all for now.
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| odd experience |
[05 Apr 2006|11:21pm] |
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maybe my reaction was atypical but i went to the library tonight and noticed that the new study area was open so i went in to look around and started reading the dedication plaque and noticed that the date on the plaque was today. it was kinda creepy. it's as if i'm living in the past or the plaque is staying in the present. anyhoo. i guess the area opened today which is why i haven't read about it in the paper yet. it's nice too. flat panels everywhere. well back to studying.
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| 7999 |
[02 Apr 2006|10:23pm] |
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Tomorrow is a special day. It will be my 8000th day alive. I few weeks ago I procrastinated myself into finding milestones like that. But I promise that will not be the most boring fact in this post.
The weather here has been really nice. In the 20s, and it makes one actually want to be in Philadelphia. Lifting everyone's spirits. Except Danielle, but that's another saga in itself.
I had so much fun this weekend. On Thursday, we went to a dance off fundraiser which was fun. On Friday I went to the better supermarket downtown and got really good unsweetened iced tea and other fun foods. I also worked every day this weekend and got paid for it because I finally worked off the hours that my boss credited me for in October that I didn't actually work. So yay for money. Friday night I went with a quizbowl friend to another quizbowl friend's a capella show. Afterwards, I went out with Eamon to a crappy party but I didn't stay long so it was cool. Saturday I worked again, and then I did my taxes in just a couple hours which is the shortest I've ever done them. Saturday night was Jeff's last PennJazz show which was nice and sentimental. There was an afterparty afterward which drew a friendlier crowd than Jeff's party's usually do, so I had a good time, (except for Danielle picking fights with me, which actually became so ridiculous that it was funny). After going to bed at 4am (lousy farmers) I got up at 9 today to play tennis with Katelyn. More work and then I went downtown to shop! I got 4 shirts for 45$! Great sales at Urban, HM and Express. I got a couple 60 dollar shirts for 15 dollars. No one was there to monitor me but I think I got good stuff. Very exciting but sad West Wing tonight. Can't wait for next week. And that brings my exciting weekend to a close. I've also been enjoying the killer home meals I've been making.
I think with only a handful of weeks left, I'm really valuing my time, which is good. But April will prove to be the cruelest month. I need to keep my grades up, get a real job and hook up with a Penn chick. Not easy tasks.
Thursday is Coldplay. Can't wait. Friday is OAR at the Fling Concert. Has anyone heard of them? I hadn't but I think I'll enjoy it.
I'm facing a dilemma wherein I have no clue where I'll be in September but the Toronto Orchestra is playing all the Beethoven symphonies and I want to buy tickets. I suppose I'll have to wait and see.
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| feelin better |
[24 Mar 2006|01:21pm] |
So I'm feeling better now. Still don't have a big appetite but no longer nauseous. Thanks for the words of comfort. And here's to another 9 years vomit free! See you at the victory party in 2015.
In other news, the internet is humanity's collective brain. I love those moments when you finally understand something that's been nagging you for years. See the RHCP wrote a song for Californication called Emit Remmus and I never knew what that meant. Being a Latin major at the time, I figured it meant "He/She/It buys Remmus." But what is Remmus? Well thanks to the internet, I realized today that it's Summer Time backwards. So there ends another streak of mine - 7 years of ineptitude.
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| well that's it folks |
[22 Mar 2006|04:34am] |
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8 and three quarters years right down the drain. my vomit streak is reset to about 4 minutes. i can't say i'm too upset because my stomach feels much better now than it did for the last hour and a half. honestly though, i only had two mudslides and a margarita. there must have been something bad in one of them, i'm guessing the mudslides. and i can report that vomiting is still as nasty as the last time i did, back in July 1997 when the popcorn i got seeing Men In Black did me in.
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