Acts of Minor Treason
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A dude's thoughts and grumbles about Toronto, the world, and the future and also writing and photos. Updates daily.
Latest Blog Posts
- PDP #133: Up McCaul on Nov 20, 2009 in photo public domain photography toronto
McCaul Street isn't a particularly prominent road in Toronto. It may be most important now for providing access to the Ontario College of Art and Design - that weird structure that looks like a shoebox balanced on pencil crayons - and the Art Gallery...
- The Convenient Coincidence on Nov 19, 2009 in creative advice writing
I've heard it said that once is coincidence, twice is happenstance, and three times is enemy action. To say it another way, if in a work of fiction something happens often enough it's preferable for it to have been planned that way by an actor within...
- PDP #132: The Centre on Nov 18, 2009 in photo public domain photography
I am ill again today, regrettably, and so this will be short. Pictured today is Masaryk-Cowan Community Centre, one of the more historic structures of the former village and current neighborhood of Parkdale. It has particular meaning for me, as this...
- 2060: The Next Great Apocalypse? on Nov 17, 2009 in apocalypse ridiculous future science fiction
There's a long - not necessarily "proud" - tradition of apocalyptic predictions throughout history. Witness the Millerites, who believed the world would end first in 1843 and then in 1844, or turn the page back to 1999 and look at some of the more hy...
- PDP #131: L'éléphant blanc on Nov 16, 2009 in photo montreal public domain photography olympics
I first saw Montreal's Olympic Stadium from the air, while the plane was descending into Trudeau International. It was built as the centerpiece of the 1976 Summer Olympics, though it was not completed until 1987, and when taking repairs and cost over...
- Go For the Gold Line on Nov 15, 2009 in transit los angeles light rail rail
Until recently, when I thought of transit cities, Los Angeles was far from the top of the list. Much of that is due to it being the first great auto-centric metropolis, as well as constant reinforcement in popular media that Los Angeles is a city whe...
- PDP #130: The Edge of Etobicoke on Nov 14, 2009 in photo public domain photography toronto
The Humber Bay Arch Bridge is, in my opinion, one of the better unsung features of Toronto's architecture. Its position, spanning the Humber River just north of Lake Ontario, is such that the average person's only experience with it is seeing it in t...
