Party at Cusine of India

Chinese People and Their Road Signs

I saw this inside a Chinese Plaza the other day.
What da h'll?!?
-- Sammy Lao
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."
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Some friends I randomly met on TTC

This is what is so cool about the TTC.
I bumped into two friends on the Lakeshore streetcar.

Aren't they just adorable?

Guilt-Tripping at the Harbourfront Ctr

I was at the the Harbourfront International reading series the other day
and came in late.

This is what they reserved for me.

HR mantra at TTC

If you want to be successful at your job, you have to invest in your own
success.

The Canada Savings Bonds Ads

These are perhaps worse ads I have ever seen.
There are no impressionable features of this ad that would translate to
greater sales.

Stock photo-like, generic pretty models in various occupational garbs
are juxtaposed with a giant, utilitarian yellow block. The product being
sold is the mind-numbingly bureaucratic "Canada Savings Bond Payroll
Savings Program."

Look folks, Government Savings can be fun and exciting too. Look at
victory bonds. Look at the Israeli defense fund. Their posters are
slick.

This could be donw so so much better.

Democracy in Asia (Far East)

American triumphalism, the belief that the rest converge towards the
general direction of parlimentary democracy, liberal theory, and
captialism is a sham. Proponents of such a system often ignore the
historical circumstances and the resultant cultural attiudes that smooth
a nation to continuing a "People's Government."

Liberal Theory of the Rule of Law also begats, amongst those that study
politics an assumption that the study of governance must be purely in
legal terms.

What the hell is this?

Took this at a Chinese plaza today. I am haiving a serious comprehension
issue as to what I am suppose to even do here.

The Best is the Enemy of the Good.

I was thinking about this quotation today because it turned up in a
project management book I am reading.

It seems that it is equally applicable to men, that the Best are the
enemy of the Good. I have always assosciated myself with many of the
best and it has always been my observation that they aren't very good.

So maybe Periander is right both in tyranny and democracy. Or perhaps
the good should be uprooted.

3.2 Megapixel of Joy!

Roger finally puts out a decent camera phone for use.
That's okay, because we're in Canada.
We're used to getting the short stick in the mobile industry.

MEXICO!

This was an ad for vacationing in Mexico.
Good looking people.

Deep Fried Caplines

I fried some salted caplines for breakfast this morning and they was so
good.

They came straight from Newfoundland and were salted by a family friend
of ours. I dusted them lightly with corn starch and pan-fried them with
lard.

Oops!

This is my favoutie Anti-tobacco ad.
It's hilarious.

Orfus Road madness.

okay.

This place is insane.

This is where all the clothes in the mall goes if they are not sold, so
everything in all the stores are cheap.

Just look at this. $1 doesn't even cover the shipping cost from China.

Cheapest coffee around S@Y

Just inside the the Art building is the cheapest Coffee around TEL and
the Quinlan Buliding.

It's $1 (no tax) for a small and the cup holds around the same volumn as
a medium at Timmy's.

Yay!

Kensington Pedestrian Sundays

After Canzine, I went to Kensington Market's Pedestrian Sunday.

Much more interesting, especially with the Halloween theme.

Hotel CanZine

I went to the Hotel Canzine on Sunday for about an hour.
It was okay. Saw a few interesting things. But, ultimately, zines are
just not my thing. I got kind of bored and wigged out by some of the
fluorescent people there.

Spacing Magazine was there on another one of their Absurdist-Political projects. This one is for all user to map down where they work and where they live.

This guy is selling grilled cheese sandwiches to promote his film on grilled cheese sandwiches.

This workshop teaches people how to make puppets out of crap.

This guy wanted to reproduce his summer tree planting so he filled the hotel room with leaves, twigs, and a small, living tree.

I don't know what the hell this was... Well, I took the picture, so I do. What I meant is that it was some weird art thing that was just kind of loud and intentionally made on old film projector. Whatever.

She is a resident artist at the Gladestone. She has covered every inch of the room, including the floors, ceilings, walls, and windows, with an orange, shaggy rug.

These people burned stuff and filmed it. Smoked. Very neat.

For some reason, small 1" buttons were everywhere. People are either selling them, making them, or wearing them. I have some unflattering things to say about this, but I don't think it is suitable for public consumption.

A few cute girls in corsets though. The girl on the right makes them for a living. The girl on the left is just cute.