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Cory Doctorow visits Radio Shack, Robot Johnny gets served

Monday, June 5, 2006 · 4 Comments

Via MetaFilter: A blogger with his hate-on (or love-on?) for BoingBoinger Cory Doctorow envisions a scene in which Cory waxes ecstatic over culture jamming and open source this-and-that.  This excerpt takes a swing at my remixed TTC map:

CORY DOCTOROW: And I have a background wallpaper skin of the Ontario subway system with all the stop names cleverly rearranged to spell out the names of the characters from “Harry Potter”.

First off, Ontario subway system?  That would be awesome. 

Next stop Sudbury. Sudbury.

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Haiku Review: Art School Confidential

Monday, June 5, 2006 · 5 Comments

Saw despite bad press.
Dan Clowes should stick to comics.
Malkovich, though? Great.

As an aside: I primarily went to see this because it was screening at The Royal (Toronto’s oldest standing active movie theatre), which along with its sister theatres, will be closed at the end of the month.

I have lived in Toronto for 6 years and have witnessed the closing (and in some cases, destruction) of far too many old theatres.  I have a lot of memories of the Royal—the first movie I saw there was a print of the first Friday the 13th.  I saw ResFest screenings each year.  When you’re early for a movie, there’s nothing better than hopping across the street to Balfour Books for a quick browse.  And most importantly, where else in the city could I go to see old 3D movies (complete with paper glasses): Jaws 3, Flesh for Frankenstein, and Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder.

You win again, Multiplexes!

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