And don’t forget: the clocks get turned back this Saturday, which means that we get an extra hour’s worth of party!

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

I thought I’d give a quick bloggy salute to Paul Raven, who died from a heart attack on October 20th in Switzerland.
Raven played with Killing Joke during their most successful period, contributing low notes to the albums Fire Dances, Brighter than a Thousand Suns and Night Time, on which the classic 80’s alt-rock/goth anthem [...]

So whom does this guy work for? And did they get to the Toronto Star?
The Toronto Star has yanked both the pieces about the parking lot scheme I wrote about in this entry, replacing it with a cryptic correction that leaves only questions. More here.
The Star are either fools (for getting such a simple fact-check [...]

Chris Turner, my friend and fellow DJ from Crazy Go Nuts University, is doing a small tour of Canadian cities in support of his new book, The Geography of Hope. The first stop of his tour is good ol’ Accordion City and it happens tonight at C’est What (67 Front Street East, a short walk [...]

UPDATE (Monday October 22 @ 2:16 EDT): There’s been an interesting development in this story — see the end of this post for details.
An Impark employee places pylons along Commissioners St. before the Cirque du Soleil show, preventing motorists from parking free of cost. Photo taken from the Toronto Star — click to see the [...]

Omage courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Here’s what Chairman Mao would probably think of this:
In case you need it, here’s an explanation of the acronym “ROFLMAO”.

Well, that’s it for the last surviving member of the Rat Pack lineup that mattered: Joey Bishop (nee Joseph Abraham Gottlieb) died on Wednesday night. Rest in peace, son of a gun.