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That Was The Week That Was
Jun. 17th, 2008 10:41 amWell, last week was certainly an experience. Not a waste of time, but certainly not what I expected, for hardly anything went to plan.
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My Imaginary Perfect Trip to Toronto
Mar. 7th, 2007 04:22 pmI haven't been to Toronto proper in years (I got as far as the airport in 2006). The last time I had a chance to look around there was 1989, when I was working at my Army job in Ottawa but had a good friend (now in Vancouver, http://www.paranoiddelusionsinc.com/) who lived near the AGO while working at Nelvana, and my favourite cousin who had a studio near Queen and Bathurst (now in Mississauga, http://www.halltrainstudios.com/). I used to walk up and down Queen Street to the west of Bay and Yonge looking in at the interesting book shops etc. I understand it's all gentrified now.
If I were to go to Toronto now, here is what I would like to do, ideally:
- Have coffee, and maybe a quick game of something, with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sonjaaa;
- See a performance by Nash the Slash at some club (http://www.nashtheslash.com);
- Visit Fiery Dragon Productions, the people who are publishing my wargames right now (http://www.fierydragon.com/counterstrike/index.htm)
- Visit Istvan Kantor to see what he's up to (my first meeting with the redoubtable Neoist in 1987: http://www.livejournal.com/users/ltmurnau/29584.html)
- Have something to eat at Dooney's Cafe (http://www.dooneyscafe.com/), where I might meet Brian Fawcett, a writer whom I don't always like but can't seem to stop reading
- go to a film showing of something weird, introduced and interpreted by Reg Hartt (but hoping he won't throw chairs at people in the audience)
- see my step-grandmother, who is really getting on but was a columnist for the Toronto Star for a long time, and seems to know everyone
- um, what else? I'll have to think about it. Any suggestions?
If I were to go to Toronto now, here is what I would like to do, ideally:
- Have coffee, and maybe a quick game of something, with
sonjaaa;- See a performance by Nash the Slash at some club (http://www.nashtheslash.com);
- Visit Fiery Dragon Productions, the people who are publishing my wargames right now (http://www.fierydragon.com/counterstrike/index.htm)
- Visit Istvan Kantor to see what he's up to (my first meeting with the redoubtable Neoist in 1987: http://www.livejournal.com/users/ltmurnau/29584.html)
- Have something to eat at Dooney's Cafe (http://www.dooneyscafe.com/), where I might meet Brian Fawcett, a writer whom I don't always like but can't seem to stop reading
- go to a film showing of something weird, introduced and interpreted by Reg Hartt (but hoping he won't throw chairs at people in the audience)
- see my step-grandmother, who is really getting on but was a columnist for the Toronto Star for a long time, and seems to know everyone
- um, what else? I'll have to think about it. Any suggestions?
