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Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Mysterion’s Victoria Weekend Burlesque Revue

Graphic: Part of Mysterion's poster for his Victoria Weekend Revue.

Click the picture to see the whole poster. MAY NOT BE SAFE FOR WORK or OLD SCHOOL MONARCHISTS (boobs, tassels, descration of Queen Victoria’s image).

My friend Mysterion the Mind Reader

(who really does look like Jon Stewart’s evil younger brother) is

hosting not just one, but three nights of burlesque, vaudeville and

magic/mentalist tricks this weekend at Mitzi’s Sister (1554 Queen Street West, three blocks eats of Roncessvalles). There’s no cover for this event — that’s right, these are three nights of shows, gratis!

  • Friday’s guests:
    • The Dirty Hearts
    • Scarlette Sylphide
    • Tanya Cheex
  • Saturday’s guests:
    • The Providers
    • Special surprise guests
  • Sunday’s guests:
    • The Whammies
    • Mitzy Cream

And of course, Mysterion and Penny Whistleton (she of the classic “One Girl, Four Tassels” act, will perform.

A pity I’m not in town. If you’re going to be in Accordion City this weekend, you might want to celebrate the long weekend by taking in a show!

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It Happened to Me Music

I’ll Let Sass Drive

Postmodern Sass, everyone’s favourite sprachspiel, has the lowdown on Monday’s Kickass Karaoke.

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In the News

In Which Our Hero Will Probably Annoy His Readers on the Right

Keith Olbermann summarizes Fox News astutely:

…it’s the newscast

perpetually running on the giant video screens in the movie “1984”.

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It Happened to Me

"This Party’s Over!"

In yesterday’s entry, titled I am Mace Windu, I gave away an important plot point about Revenge of the Sith

without providing the customary spoiler warning. A small number of fans

patiently awating the movie’s release have been on me like flies on a bantha, and rightfully so. The oversight has been corrected, and my apologies to the fans.

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It Happened to Me

I am Mace Windu [Updated]

[via Logan’s Dave] Here’s a cute little test that determines whether you’re drawn to the Light or Dark side of The Force. My result:

Screen capture: My result from the Force-O-Meter test, which says I am Mace Windu.

I am Mace Windu! The result also reads:

You are a Supreme bad-ass Jedi who resonates with the Force. Yoda is your best mate.

Update: There’s a punchline to this entry, but it’s a spoiler! It appears below…

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It Happened to Me

"Sitting on the Dock of the…Hey, Where’d It Go?"

I’m quite happy with the latest version of Mac OS X, code-named

“Tiger”, although I suspect that a lot of the hot new features such as

the new XCode, Core Data and Core Image

are aimed sqaurely at programmers and won’t even indirectly affect

end-users until developers start cranking out application that use

these features.

There is one glitch I’ve noticed: every time I boot up, the Dock seems to forget some

applications that I’ve either dragged to it or marked as “Keep in

Dock”. Has anyone else had this problem?

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Music Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Kickass Karaoke Tonight

Attention karaoke fiends of Accordion City: there’s a Kickass Karaoke tonight at Ciao Edie (489 College, just west of Bathrust) starting at 9 p.m.!

Here are some scene from the Kickass Karaoke on Sunday, May 8th at The Rivoli…