... is post something short, sweet, non-dyspeptic and by someone else. But, goldarnnit, the someone else here is J Walter Thompson, the venerable ad agency, the original "Mad Men" blue-suited dinosaur that's updated its DNA and partnered with Tourism Toronto to create a soul-stirring 60-second promotional video (actually, an entire campaign) about my hometown that … Continue reading Something I don’t normally do…
Tag: Toronto
May I Call You Justin?
R-r-r-r-oll up and r-r-r-rim to win™! Well, come Monday the 19th, I donned my tiara with the great, big flashing "L-for-loser" and trotted off, unopened VISA bill in hand, to vote, non-strategically, for the Beard Party. Taut muscle + tousled hair + Winner of the Rim Job Thought Experiment = The Person Called Trudeau. Mainly … Continue reading May I Call You Justin?
Puttin’ the Moves on Pride
Here in Toronto, the City Without A Soul, where the terrible WAR ON CARS rages unabated - at least, according to the Neanderthals from the 905, who drink petroleum for breakfast and, although unable to cope with words greater than one syllable or concepts greater than one person, think nothing of simultaneously texting, reading the National … Continue reading Puttin’ the Moves on Pride
DIDJA KNOW? WELL, I NEVER!
FIRST PIC: College Park, our understated (and, this being Toronto, under-appreciated) Art Moderne gem, known to the geezer generation as "Eaton's College Street", looks like this in 2014. But inside, on the 7th floor, was the Eaton Auditorium, and the Round Room, designed by Jacques Carlu in 1930; designed down to the china pattern and … Continue reading DIDJA KNOW? WELL, I NEVER!