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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Tales of Television Centre — Telly Documentary

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Tales of Television Centre , a BBC Four documentary from 2012, gets one nostalgic for a place of work even if one did not work there. The...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Picturing: TTC Subway Train Rider in Black and Cap

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Any rider of the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) should be allowed to travel and chill in peace. This part-time "street photographer...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Athot for the Day: Stinky Human!

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Cats tolerate our kisses.

The Restoration of the "Mind the Gap"

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Mind the Gap (1985, Super-8, 5 minutes) The epic short documentary was more a tone poem than a conventional doc. Images and music to tell...
Monday, June 16, 2025

A Monday Morning Smile: Squeak Squeak Squeak

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I read that Donald Trump got his military parade, but that the crowd-size was underwhelming. I had heard a "squeak squeak squeak squea...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Father's Day 2025: H.W. St. Laurent, RCAF / CAF

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Friday, June 13, 2025

Athot for the Day: Witnessing a History Replay

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So! It looks like a once-great democratic nation is morphing into a fascist state before our very eyes: " die Sturmabteilung der Verein...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Athot for the Day: On Losers' Row

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The Toronto Maple Leafs and the Conservative Party of Canada have something in common.... They both need to be razed, and rebuilt from the g...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Sunday Fun: UAPs, UFOs, LOLs

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"Unidentified Aerial Phenomena." Perfect. UAP sounds an awful lot like an old film production and distribution company, but ma...
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Fight Forward Not Backward

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"Fight forward!" A talented and hard-working friend falls into the pit of self-doubt. He worked for years in film and television...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Film Design: Cosmonaut Costume Test Polaroid

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The Polaroid's blank space has nothing written on it, but it should read: " Cosmonaut flight-suit costume test-fitting, Marty ....
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Pencil Sketch: Sea Thing (On the Beach)

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Like many self-proclaimed artists, I can, with varying degrees of success, draw what Archie Bunker might call "normal tings": Huma...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Happy 36th Birthday, SkyDome Forever!

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The name " SkyDome " was not my first choice. A contest had been held in 1987, while the structure was under construction, to come...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Sunday Fun: Starship Invasions Movie Review 1977

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In the spring of 1977 — June to be exact — I visited Toronto with friend Chris. Our mission, which we did accept, was to tour OECA (Ontario ...

Canadian Armed Forces Day 2025

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I had not realized till minutes ago that here in Canada it's "Armed Forces Day". This was an embarrassing and unconscionable o...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

The Death Probe of Television

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Not long ago I saw a few pictures that someone had posted online of the old and short-lived science fiction television series Logan's Ru...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Athot for the Day: Duck! And Cover!

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Life's but a septic tank explosion.
Monday, May 26, 2025

The Dogs and Cats Difference

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While doing some work here at home, I realized something very important... something that ethologists may want to consider as being importan...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Sunday Fun: The Shulman and Medical Files & Titles

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The Shulman File "Look at you. You're a bunch of weirdos!" So explained Dr Morton Shulman to his crowd of guests as he rocked ...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Toronto Maple Leafs: Declassified!

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It's time "Toronto Maple Leafs" be made public domain. (Hey, maybe they'd even win a Stanley Cup under such ownership.)
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Simon St. Laurent
Welcome! RCAF Brat duty: St. Hubert, QC; CFB Greenwood, NS; CFB Baden–Soellingen, Germany; CFB Borden, ON. Now living in Toronto's beautiful "Annex" neighbourhood.
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