So this is family day!
My family mainly doesn't live in Toronto anymore. So today was just a regular day for me where I needed to make a severe dent in a lot of work that actually relied on a few stores. I'd much rather those employees are having a nice day at home or with their families. However, I wouldn't mind getting some stuff done.
Alas.
Instead I decided to make a little blog dedicated to the upheaval of the graffiti issues in the city specifically the former Brickworks. I recalled my last visit to the Brick works, before last summer when a construction crew and a security guard showed up and yelled at us to leave.
Personally I enjoyed bummin around on the roof on a sunny day (seriously, have you seen that view) as much as I enjoyed looking at the graffiti in the catacombs beneath. But sitting up there was literally sitting up on a huge piece of history.
The site had lived once as an actual functioning brickworks. Generations later it then found a new life as a platform for the creatures who thrive on urban decay to display their messages. It is very much a big part of me, who only explored the site maybe three times.
When these photos were taken, it was a sunny, muddy, spring day. Exploring the innards of an abandoned building at the foot of an escarpment was like one of my first dates with the city that made me think that maybe we had some chemistry, some potential for a beautiful relationship.
Without further adue here are some photos of my last trip to the Brickworks.
Anywhore. There are more somewhere. But they are in a box and I do not have a scanner. I will miss what the Brickworks was. But I am excited to explore Evergreen's new exploration of the space just as much. Renaissance is very much part of this city, the Brickworks was just better at it. I think what could be described as vandalism by many people is just a token of the past.
I think that while the space spent a very long time abandoned and un loved, the kids of Toronto gave it a new soul, a new meaning. And trying to eradicate that would just be cruel & un natural.
THIS IS WHAT THIS WEEK LOOKS LIKE!!~ (more on this later)
I've been watching a lot of The Simpsons online lately. Not only has this made me at least 50% happier in general, but it has rehashed my severe connection with the show. By season 7 I found myself up to my eyeballs in screen caps, so I've decided to share some of the incredible visual humor with some of you mildly erotic folk.
Thusly, this new segment is called "Simpsons screen caps"
I don't know what I have against showering either. Oh well.
Yo naughty minxes. I'm about to BLOW YOUR MIND!
As of today I no longer owe the Toronto Public Library an outstanding amount of NINE DOLLARS! Woah! Nine dollars is so much fucking money! I must be loaded! No really though, 9 dollars is 3 trips on the TTC. And I had that book for almost an entire year. And you know what I got for it? Cool shit FOR FREE!
Those are cool DVDS! (Actually The Spirit sucked so hard. Which I was expecting, but seriously Frank Miller. Sin City was already a movie. You made that movie. ) But I wouldn't be able to say that unless I had rented it Yo!
Also I don't know if you guys know this but you can request anything and they will get it for you in like three days. They're like fairies. Book Fairies.
I also got this sweet new card!
Yeah, I will find my way. TO THE LIBRARY! Libraries are awesome. And if you aren't a fuck up like me: they're 100% free FREE FREE! So stop being stupid and ugly and go use them bitches.
In case you DIDN'T know, NBC's Community is fucking amazing.
Puppy Parade:
I learned this way cool lesson about blogging in 2010.
It's surprisingly difficult to make a dece blog. I mean really. Who the fuck cares about your life?
I can't even properly enjoy the cutesy fuck ones where people post photos of their shitty friends or little trinkets like um I don't know a typed and scanned poem and accompanied scanned fuckin' polaroid.
God people are easy to impress.
like yeah you might think you're genius but I don't think cyberspace needs another scanned Polaroid. Which isn't to say I'm any different, as previously stated, I'm not a very good blogger right now. Especial-am-ly as this blog was started for a course and half bullshit.
...which is one of many reasons why one of my new years resolution is to hone my skills and maybe produce something remotely interesting for you shitty folks. Cause honestly the best thing I have going on are my poorly translated blog titles. Who I find AMZNG.
but yeah stick around folks, I'm determined to compile the shitty time I spend on the internet into some cool shit, yeah?
on that note... I srsly want bacon.
