If you spend any time on YouTube, you’ve probably noticed the overlay ads that now appear at the bottom of the video. Annoying, sure. But great if you’re an advertiser. Thankfully, the video-sharing site is now empowering regular users with similar functionality. Instead of a banner ad, users can now direct viewers to a website [...]
If you’re in Toronto tonigh and looking for a cheap-yet-highly-entertaining evening, may I suggest the Bad Dog Theatre‘s neweset all-improvised parody show WEIRDOS? It’s a spoof of Heroes, and features some on Toronto’s finest improvisers. I’m also in it, but don’t worry- I mostly stand at the back. Best of all, it’s only $10. That’s [...]
So, the city just announced 19 temporary dumping sites across the city. I’m pleased to note one will be located in my neighbourhood, right in the middle of Sunnyside Park. After at least seven minutes of feverish brainstorming, I have come up wit the perfect name for what I can only assume will be a [...]
First: for the love of God, don’t panic. It has been three and a half days and people have gone bonkers. When the streets run thick with garbage and we bow before the gilded throne of a new Rat King, by all means go bat-shazbot insane. But in the meantime, perhaps we should just suck [...]
Garbage strikes are annoying. Striking city workers raise hackles. But there’s one sure-fire way to make all of this worse: by illegally dumping garbage all over the city. What, is the veneer of civilization so thin that the moment our precious amenities are removed, we begin to fling our trash gleefully into the street? It’s [...]
Well, it went and happened. CUPE Local 416 and 79 are on strike, stopping sanitation, city day care and a host of other services for our long-suffering metropolis. People are very angry, and perhaps justifiably so. But before everybody swarms into the streets out ofr union blood, it may be wise to put things into [...]
I’m breaking my self-imposed blogcation for this, because it made my morning. If you don’t already love Pixar for their groundbreaking animation and beautifully sweet-hearted films, then you should probably read this: Pixar Grants Girl’s Dying Wish to See ‘Up’ And if you did love Pixar prior to reading that article, then you’re probably now [...]