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Month: December 2006
I’ve already got plans for this evening, but in case you haven’t got any and you like flash mob-ish events, local flash mob-esque event planners newmindspace are planning an event that takes place tonight at 9:09 p.m. on the upper floor of Union Station.
The event, in a nutshell:
- Bring some kind of personal music player or music-making instrument or device that can output to headphones
- Gather at Union Station’s upper floor
- At 9:09 p.m., press “play” on your device, and dance to your headphone music — no blasting music out loud, just on your headphones.
- The rules: Don’t disrupt the trains service and leave no trace!
If I were free, I’d bring my keytar and rock out.
[via Torontoist] Here’s another Google Map-based web application that you might find handy if you live in Accordion City: this interactive Toronto Transit Map, shown below:
This map takes a Google Map of Toronto and overlays it with the routes for the following transit systems:
- TTC
- Brampton Transit
- Go Transit
- Mississauga Transit
- Vaughan Transit
- VIVA
Just enter an address or intersection as you would into a Google Map, and you’ll see the routes around it.
I borrowed this image of the “Melnorah”, pictured above, from NPR’s holiday craft contest page and will be using it as the menorah image for the next eight nights in honour of Chanukah. As the folks at NPR wrote: “This menorah works on two levels: It symbolizes a willingness to accept Gibson’s apology for his anti-Semitic rant but also, for skeptics, offers the chance to watch hot wax drip down his punim (the Yiddish word for face).”
(By the way, if you spent money on The Passion of the Christ, now’s a good time to donate an equal amount to the Anti-Defamation League or any other group that works against anti-semitism. If you spent money on What Women Want, you should donate an equal amount to me, because clearly you have no business spending money.)
Anyways, since the Ginger Ninja and her family are Jewish, I take part in Chanukah now, which means that I get some presents and fried food tonight! It also means that there’ll be Chanukah and Jewish-related audio files for you to download for the next eight days (while continuing with the Audio Advent Calendar).
A Hoot and a Challah
Years ago, I was shopping at “My Market Bakery”, a place in Kensington Market that sold some very nice fresh-baked bread. As I was looking for some pumpernickel, two Jewish women were trying to figure out some of the labelling of the bread.
“It looks like challah,” one of them said, “but it’s not labelled ‘challah’.”
“I think ‘egg bread’ is what they call it,” the other said.
I decided to help out. “I’m a ‘they’,” I chimed in. “And yes, that’s challah.”
Needless to say, Wendy rolls her eyes every time I tell this story or refer to challah as “egg bread”.
To kick off Chanukah, here’s a track by a guy from Wendy’s home town — DJBC, who with Luke “Lenlow” Enlow, are Boston’s kings of mash-ups. This one’s called Challaback Girl and mashes up Hava Nagilah with Gwen Stefani’s Hollaback Girl. Enjoy!
(Don’t know what a hollaback is? The Urban Dictionary can help you!)
DJBC – Challaback Girl (3.5 MB MP3)
Postmodern Sass sent her friends — of whom I am part — an email announcing that today, December 15th is “Reveal Your Blog Crush” Day. The transformation of the internet into a giant world-wide high school is now complete.
“Reveal Your Blog Crush” Day is the creation of Sandra Hekkinen and “Ms. Sizzle”, and they say that you may have a “blog crush” on a blogger if…
- You can’t wait to read what they post next.
- You want to be friends with them.
- You think they are the cat’s meow. Meow!
- You might find them attractive- physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, whatever floats your boat.
- If you met them in person, blushing might occur.
“If you have to really think hard about who your blog crush is,” Ms. Sizzle writes, “you probably don’t have one.”
Once you’ve determined whether you have a blog crush, it’s time for the awkward step: declaring it. The rules, as stated in Ms. Sizzle’s blog, are pretty simple:
- You can have more than one crush (but please refrain from naming your entire blogroll in an effort to keep everyone happy).
- You must reveal it on December 15, 2006 on your own blog.>
- Boys can crush on boys. Girls can crush on girls. Boys can crush on girls. Girls can crush on boys. This has little to do with our sexuality and more to do with being bloggeriffic.
By the way, when did “crush” (in the sense of infatuation) become a verb? In the past few years, people have gone from “having a crush on” someone to “crushing on” someone.
I’ll sit this one out, but if you have a blog crush and want to announce it to the world but don’t have a blog yourself, feel free to use the comments for this entry.
There’s something not quite right about Santa Claus — he seems a little bit creepy what with the invitations to sit on his lap and his constant monitoring of children, and Shi-Sho sing about it in this track titled Get Behind Me Santa.
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Sassafraz, the Day After
Torontoist has posted Marc Lostracco’s photos of Sassafraz, the day after the fire, and you can find more photos on Flickr.
(For more on Sassafraz, see today’s earlier entry titled Sassafraz and Schadenfreude.)