I'd like to vote for the person who says that staff driving across the parks in a truck is no longer acceptable.

A moderate person could understand things like once in a decade weather. But then the Mayor's response was less than a shoulder shrug and offered no path forward in accountability. Anyone I talk to that I wouldn't consider active in the political circle still talks about it if I bring up Chow.

I doubt it, but my first thought would be Chow pivoting more to the left. Bradford can play the moderate because people aren't seeing visible changes to the city. The vibe is critical this spring and summer after the disastrous snow clearing. Said to my husband she lost that winter weekend.

And by Amphitheatre, I mean Bandshell.

How did we go from Biidaasige Park planning to this? The people (me), yearn for a Millennium Park.

The amphitheatre should have programming year round, but a great opportunity to create outdoor music programming in the summer with anchor tenants.

Good Morning little Percy 🥰
Yes, his full name is Parsifal because my husband is a saint.

Would love a Mayor with a vision!

Young person with braided hair gently touching foreheads with a large red horse puppet, holding its muzzle, in warm golden light.

Big congratulations to the @torontosymphony.bsky.social and Red Sky Performance for the premiere of She Holds Up the Stars! Puppetry was created by the same team as Rocky from Project Hail Mary #AmazeAmazeAmaze

Ok but has RDJ ever sung the Liebestod after an intense 5 hour performance of Tristan und Isolde?

Insane for any organization to say "it's a hard thing to manage" while also not being able to account for $10 billion in funding.

The teachers should be getting in touch with their pension plan to tell them to change the CF stance.

a man wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses is riding a motorcycle in the desert ALT: a man wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses is riding a motorcycle in the desert

Watching Easy Rider (359 of 1000) this morning, introducing me to another member of the Fonda dynasty.

Stephen Sondheim level shit.

Toronto, sometimes you give me hope. Watched a grandma in a cargo bike, peddled by her son, with her grandchildren. A man with an 8ft long package on a smaller cargo bike.

Then my husband took Line 5 and I forced him to be an influencer.

Last night I watched Midnight Cowboy. I was not prepared. The decay of New York: it's a maze of broken concrete and obtuse people grinding along the gears of capitalism.

Fascinating watching the breakdown of masculinity across 40 years of classic Westerns.

In my great-grandpa era of Western Weekends, but as I hit the 1970s of my film journey, the genre is slowly disappearing.

This morning's watch: The Wild Bunch

The host really can't wrap his head around the concept of not doing whatever big energy companies want.

Incredible how Avi just runs circles around his corporate talking points

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The only local politician I see around the city is Dianne Saxe riding her bike with her safety vest. Makes me irrationally angry every time I see her riding through all the construction on Queens Park and doing nothing about it.

There's a song I'm learning with the lyrics "Evelyn our relationship is simply platonic" and I say "shrimply platonic" every damn time.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Mystery 9am Ford and Chow transit announcement?

One of the busiest parks in Toronto and as usual, it looks like trash. Staff destroying the landscapes they’re supposed to care for by driving full-size pickups through them. Incoherent design. Poor construction. Ugly fixtures. Somebody should lose their job over this.

Kermit Unpigged Revival?

She actually prefers "plastic bag"

At this point, put the Leafs at Coca-Cola Coliseum and let the fans fill up Scotia every night

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Something happening on Prince Arthur. More cop cars keep coming but no one is closing down Prince Arthur. There's 5 or 6 cars all trying to reverse out 🤣

Perhaps my favourite local history find at an estate sale this morning. Poster for the original Mirvish run of The Lord of The Rings musical

That whole neighborhood has been brainwashed. What that area could be without street parking!

My SIL loves to have this "access for all" argument and brings up grandparents who can't watch their kids play in the park.

When you ask them who they specifically know whose lost access, they can't and then pivot to recreational cyclists.