Wednesday, April 5th 2006

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drea: Great pictures once again. I like the shot with the CN Tower between the two buildings.

in response to Only in Toronto...

sine: host++

in response to American Fried Chicken

drea: No..lol..I did it the day after 12:05:45 on 04/06/06. (I don't think it's the exact time bt it's accurate)

in response to One Day Past Due

Tamara: It is true that Canada get snow, as do many countries. But I'd like to think that Canada is way more than cold weather and snow storms. Most Canadian would be unable to handle the weather we have up north, which is why the southern part of the country is...

in response to Spring Snow

Oscar: keep on doing the good job: no board, no bike, no ball, just your body and the concrete jungle... I'm too old for this, but I've done my share. It didn't have a name and we didn't have cameras filming us and no technique such as yours, just instinct,...

in response to Run City

Oscar: NYPD: new yucky polluting device?

in response to NYPD Segways

jack: is drea's room in there.

in response to romantic seaview...

drea: LOL I ABSOLUTELY LUV THE SIGN! I think I need one of those for my room. Although you all should be happy to know, that I have started cleaning my room today. (Valium for you? Tequila for me!)

in response to Exam Week (Havoc That Is My Room)

elaine: i like the actress whose dress caught fire best, but i am not surprised at the popularity of lunatic woman... ;-D i don't think i was being particularly selective, heroic domestic things could only really be about drowning or being on fire, pretty much. being run over by a train would...

in response to Postman\'s Park

Elicar: The sign says "CONDEMNED" This room is unfit for Human Habitation ;}

in response to Exam Week (Havoc That Is My Room)

Oscar: does it have wheels?

in response to Kitchen Thingy - A Long Way from Home

reece anderson: BRIDGETON LOYALISTS FLUTE BAND NO#1 MON THE WOMBLES FUCK THE POPE

in response to Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill

Oscar: it's definitely upside down as you can see from the larger curl in the S... so it's more of the ass... pretty.

in response to Los Angeles

GGP: these birds go through so much to survive; it's amazing they make it at all, esp. these days. on a chirpier note, I have reason to believe a mourning dove is nesting on the sill beneath my air conditioner. the cooing gets amplified in a really funny, wonderful way through the...

in response to Birdnoise (mostly)

Elicar: Just for the record Drea, my shambles is not the same as your shambles. I would need to take Valium to be able to relax, much more to sleep in your room! ;)

in response to Exam Week (Havoc That Is My Room)

kc: Thanks, and thanks for reminding me of this post. I just got my Certificate of Appreciation for calling in that bird last week. A very sad document, somehow. Indeed a common tern, banded on July 5, 2005, at a time when it was still "too young to fly." That was...

in response to Birdnoise (mostly)

GGP: we were on the same snowy wavelength today, jack. love that pink tree. is it a cherry? so delicate, hesitant.

in response to Spring Snow

Oscar: Go Banksy... I like the "at any time, at any time, xcept Sun" caption.

in response to Kissing Coppers

Oscar: Could be used in those NHS adverts against salt.

in response to romantic seaview...

Oscar: I've hear that part of my council taxes went on "art"... now I see.

in response to seaside rust

Oscar: People say that you can't walk in LA; you've got to drive. I lived there for about 4 months in 2001, without a car... I found it very enjoyable to walk around actually, especially at dusk or early morning. Nice pics.

in response to Los Feliz @ Night

Tyfoid Kid: Does that mean you were awake for 01:02:03 on 04/05/06 paying your bills?

in response to One Day Past Due

Peter: i lihe the photo, and even moreso, your calendar!

in response to One Day Past Due

drea: lol...well it's more like 5 minutes past due, but the title presently kinda goes with the picture.

in response to One Day Past Due

Peter: yep, id just come from the bridge...

in response to Shot from the Scoot

jack: were you just coming from the bridge? it looks like it. on the right on that street there was a funeral parlor my wife's cousin owned. i took my wife on a date once to the hamilton house down there for lobsters.

in response to Shot from the Scoot

drea: oh also jack...do you wanna clean up my room for me then? lol

in response to Exam Week (Havoc That Is My Room)

drea: hey man! on my defense: 4 exams, 5 days of work, 2 10page essays, 20 hours of sleep in total...the room could be worse! lol And your welcome Elicar, good to know there's someone out there who shares my shambles. It gives for good pictures though don't you think? Lol..yeah, i like...

in response to Exam Week (Havoc That Is My Room)

Elicar: Hmm..strange tile work..."Eat our American Fried Chicken and you'd be blessed...walking around with a visible halo over your head!"

in response to American Fried Chicken

Peter: jack: great shots! im so glad youre posting your photos here... i'm always excited to see your shots and hear your stories. the shot of the plane in midair is nice, too. i live right under that flight-path. my cellphone often gets disconnected when large jets fly over.

in response to For Peter

jack: and bugs, holy cow even in the army in the field i was cleaner than that.

in response to Exam Week (Havoc That Is My Room)

jack: boy oh boy if your mom ever saw this she would run over there and straighten out that mess, young person. i feel like i want to clean up your room. i'm almost as bad as that television character, 'monk'. cant handle clutter or anyone near me...

in response to Exam Week (Havoc That Is My Room)

Elicar: Gee...Thanks Drea! I was so stressed out for 5 weeks bedinning mid-Feb. as I was putting 60 hours (I got greedy!)at work before fiscal year end and my home was in shambles. I guess looking at someone else's room makes me think, "Naah! it was not too bad!"

in response to Exam Week (Havoc That Is My Room)

jack: peter i love that neighborhood. i miss all the stores within a few walking blocks. out here you have to drive to a mall. but i love anerican fried chicken, much better than french or british fried chicken. you see the chickens here in america speak...

in response to American Fried Chicken

Peter: i love the rusty stain on the ground below the rusty ventilation duct...

in response to American Fried Chicken

jack: great ghosts of brooklyn, i took some shots myself. nice to see different between cities and yet in the snow it looks the same, all white spots.

in response to April Sno!

Peter: heh. i like the next-to-last photo...

in response to Exam Week (Havoc That Is My Room)

drea: Wow...I luv this!!! I enjoyed each picture, especialy the one with the butterflies, great shots!

in response to Birdnoise (mostly)

Peter: i think it looks like popcorn, especially in that 5th photo...

in response to April Sno!

Peter: id need a MONSTER SCOOTER to pull that off!

in response to Shot from the Scoot

EvilGentleman: I wish I could say I give a crap, but it is prohibited here. ;-)

in response to Caution - Fish Driver

EvilGentleman: Ironically, the Great Lakes - Saint Lawrence Valley corridor in Canada, where 60% of Canada's population lives, including the cities of Windsor, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City, gets most of its cold wintry weather from the American midwest. The air masses in question would actually move from Alaska to...

in response to Spring Snow

jeeff: funny how snow looks kind of dirty when you freeze-frame it against the sky.

in response to April Sno!

GGP: I guess you could solve the problem by riding straight down the middle!

in response to Shot from the Scoot

GGP: that's what it is!! no wonder I loved it so! SQUEEK!

in response to Arch with Snow

Elicar: Before we get into fist fights, hair pulling and mud slinging in here, the 2004 Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Report for NY State states that they served 3,165 clients, 1636 men and 1529 women. www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/medi . . . IMI2004/PAIMI_2004_NY.pdf In Ontario, "##Men commit suicide at a rate four times higher...

in response to Postman\'s Park

yourniecejen: I like this one the best and it does remind me of a doorway to a mouse house.

in response to Arch with Snow

Peter: pretty much my exact thoughts, ggp :)

in response to Shot from the Scoot

GGP: maybe it's the weather, but this evokes Frost: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth. Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the...

in response to Shot from the Scoot

Elicar: Send it over Jack! We really did not have much of a snow in Toronto this winter. The last time I remember having really too much snow was when Mayor Mel Lastman called in the army (400 of them) in 1999. cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cg . . . ews/1999/01/14/snow990114. Of course he got a lot of flak...

in response to Spring Snow

Peter: i did indeeed notice it the first time... thus my noticing it straight-away the second :) definitely wins the "funniest signage" award!

in response to Caution - Fish Driver

drea: I'm luving the first and last shot, especially the last shot. Good call Tamara. We didn't have that much snow here (Toronto), thank goodness! lol

in response to April Sno!

EvilGentleman: My cousin Bradley Phillips died in the early 1980's while saving the lives of two men who drove their car into the Saint Lawrence Seaway. Even though Bradley was a not a strong swimmer, He managed to save the first one, but when he returned for the second, the man...

in response to Postman\'s Park

Tamara: I love the last shot.. it's beautiful. Looks like you had more snow in NY than we do here in TO...

in response to April Sno!

Tamara: LOL ... Jack~ I assure you we don't drive our dog sleds to and from work, snow and cold weather is simply not a canadian thing, though it cold at times. Infact it snows more in US snowbelt than it does in this city. We had a great sunny day...

in response to Spring Snow

EvilGentleman: Then you will like this post. I guess you must have missed it the first time around.

in response to Caution - Fish Driver

jack: great shot peter. beleive me when i say i took some shots from the brooklyn side and i will upload soon.

in response to Praying to the Verrazano

Jamie: heh, i love stuff like this. perhaps i'm autistic

in response to Lionel Richie Paste-Ups

Peter: the ever changing no parking sign:

in response to Lionel Richie Paste-Ups

GGP: i haven't seen any pet bird stickers around lately...perhaps with the advent of spring they'll reappear. I miss them!

in response to Pet Bird: Graffiti

no1def: nice posters shity tags

in response to Pet Bird: Graffiti

no1def: i just gotta say fuck kbt and i saw that epc has been going over normel and baler... and i did somthin about it... I-95 wall before ives dairy exit, trailer park, oh and any one want to go over erocs? put smok in front of it, get him...

in response to Miami Youth Faces \'Serious Jail Time\':

no1def: crazy ass style, makes my brain feel like scrambled eggs...

in response to graffiti trailer

GGP: whoa! this rocks. "saved a lunatic woman..." now THAT's something to be proud of.

in response to Postman\'s Park

Peter: yay bbg photos!

in response to First Post!

Peter: blame it on the grid-plan layout!

in response to Diet Rite Cola

crab killah 187: ya i herd ya dawg so u new set new brew young bloods were u say yus from well i aint give fubk bout dat just make sure when u bust dem crabs down leave no hesitation to take da niggas life im out peace c.p.t

in response to Knock, Knock

Peter: kc: yeah, i saw it from a boat, while going down the harlem river ;) also: what scam28 said... i forgot all about roller pieces!

in response to Olde Graf?

Peter: awesome post... the text as well as the photos! also: have you heard of bernd and hilla becher? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd_and_Hilla_Becher they did a series of water-tower portraits... images.google.com/images?hl=en&l . . . r&btnG=Search&sa=N&tab=wi

in response to Travelogue

Peter: ahh photo-taking walks. nice! these are some good views of toronto, especially... it helped me put lots of the more close-up shots ive seen on here into perspective...

in response to Only in Toronto...

Peter: i, for one, like the "no-pooping" sign in the second photo :)

in response to Caution - Fish Driver

Peter: wow, what a comprehensive entry, eg! it sure tells a story. i tried to take some similar shots of some very aggressive cops in front of newark penn station (issuing tickets to people parked in no-standing zones), and was stymied by one officer... i guess he didnt want me snapping photos of...

in response to Speed Trap!

Peter: wow, what a great find, elaine. seriosuly, something id never know about otherwise. its odd how matter-of-factly some of these obituaries were worded. i was checking out the above link, and found a rather deadpan one: ##"...Robert Wright, police constable of Croydon. Entered a burning house to save a woman knowing...

in response to Postman\'s Park

Jamie: perhaps. what i find most interesting is that most of these people caught fire in someway before dying. or perhaps elaine was being selective.

in response to Postman\'s Park

Tamara: I believe women could say the same thing about most men! But then again perhaps lunatic is too modest a word....

in response to Postman\'s Park

kc: Ha! Thanks for the tips, J, E.

in response to Olde Graf?

Jamie: i like that fact that Frederick Alfred Croft saved a lunatic woman before he snuffed it. Lunatic. A charge that could arguably be leveled at most women?

in response to Postman\'s Park

elaine: nice! i forgot about that one.

in response to Olde Graf?

Elicar: Obviously, I went with my girlfriend, duh!

in response to Only in Toronto...

Elicar: In 1998, I was working at Bay and Elm. A girlfriend of mine went for a walk and saw a man who appeared to be homeless picking the lock of a bike in front of a pub (the name escapes me right now). The gave away was a rolled up...

in response to Only in Toronto...

tecs: (kid with crayons) very good description of the style that aroe uses that i ever heard like it, living just down the road from aroe means i tend to see alot of his work and in the last few years have grown up trying his style of graffiti is not...

in response to Graf Trainz 2: South-East London: Aroe

Jamie: lol @ jeeff nice photos urbanghost

in response to Street Shots

Jamie: i might have said this before but i like how brooklyn looks like simcity

in response to Diet Rite Cola

EvilGentleman: My great-grandfather fell to his death while working on the construction of the Terminal tower in November of 1929. He actually lived for five minutes after falling, long enough for his son (my great uncle) to get down from the top (they were working together) and have a last conversation...

in response to Forest City Flats

Jamie: Lascaux

in response to Olde Graf?

EvilGentleman: I believe the itinerary of border crossings on my trip went something like this: By Airline: Nunavut, Manitoba By Greyhound: Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec By 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix from Avis: Quebec, Vermont, Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Staten Island (ha ha, I know it's not...

in response to Borders Part I

SCAM28: re: does graff require spraypaint.... I'm from Berlin, Germany and it's pretty normal here that people do large blockbuster bombings with paint and paint rolls and then usually use spraypaint for the outline, but not always...

in response to Olde Graf?

EvilGentleman: As far as homelessness among the wealth goes, I think I may have already mentioned in some other post my experience of seeing a homeless man sleeping in the glass and chrome entrance of a Beverly Hills Mercedes dealership. Quite the stark contrast, but reality cannot be escaped, no matter...

in response to Only in Toronto...

EvilGentleman: When I was 12, I lived in Cornwall, Ontario. I remember locking my bike up and going into the local Mac's Milk convenience store, and when I came out, my bike was still there, but some smartass had stolen my lock! I guess my bike was not worth stealing. And in...

in response to Only in Toronto...

EvilGentleman: Actually, I think the blackness of the snow depends on the quality of the pavement it was scraped off of, among other factors. This is the parking lot of the office building complex where my wife works. The road that this parking lot exits onto has a shortcut to the...

in response to Black Snow

elaine: i see your pompeii, and raise you cave painting, granted, not lettering, but still... www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/

in response to Olde Graf?

shawn.: i guess if you want to look at it that way...though the technical term for the Fremont is a "Tied Arch Bridge".

in response to Fremont Bridge

jeeff: i used to work at the beer store at markham & queen, near photo 1. ahh the memories.. of having beer bottles chucked at my head.

in response to Street Shots

GGP: what the? anyhow, arresting title.

in response to Caution - Fish Driver

jeeff: i've had 3 bicycles stolen in toronto. all were locked. maybe this is the key.

in response to Only in Toronto...

ea: thank you! more to come namely my first visit to nyc soon (recommendations appreciated)

in response to Travelogue

joey: i mean these guys www.wm.com

in response to Garbage Men Mayhem

joey: you could try hooking up with these guys. they usually leave a mess as well.

in response to Garbage Men Mayhem

joey: overthrow the dung lords of disgust!!

in response to Garbage Men Mayhem

S: I recognized the neighborhood as soon as I saw the pictures. You should have had your camera over at the McDonalds a few months ago when Ashley Simpson was putting on a show there (and I don't mean a concert). Apparently she was drunk and was acting quite...

in response to Panning Turned into Stalking

Biff: You were parked in front in Tim Hortons, no one is touching your pouch...

in response to Only in Toronto...

GGP: ea, i am happy to see you back here--and I love this post. a town with a dog mayor?! I am SO there!!

in response to Travelogue

No name: Vancouver has a better skyline than Seattle! It is modern and clean! Go Raps Go!

in response to The Top 15 Skylines in the World

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