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yeah I have no comment on the film other than that

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What's kathleen kennedy's number?

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It's good though because it means I can make the brutalism movie. Need to find a producer.

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So many people sent me this trailer because of my Brutalism evangelism but it never really seemed like a film about concrete from what I could gather, rather a bit & that's confirmed in Corey's thread here. Bits are fine (so is poking fun at brutalism) but isn't a film about concrete exactly.

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Well that's it. A good warm humid ride last night. Perfect Toronto even if i chose some hostile routes (Goreway, man, it lives up to its name). I do these threads mostly for my own, uh, reification. Making a post, even a stupid one, sets it in my mind a bit more than just taking the picture. /fin

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And original Hughs Room still empty I believe

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Def a lot of early tours from big acts

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I think this used to be a nurse’s residence or rehab facility - now a private boarding school - by the former Humber River Regional Hospital (early 1949 mod award winner, evolved/expanded into other healthcare uses). This one is 1970s brutal + classic Canadian splits.

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Some parts of the ravine system are total Edward Gorey fantasias. Up here along Weston Rd good example. The mud stain from the August storm flood still visible.

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Toronto is full of exorcist stairs. Here where I left the surface streets & went off grid (Weston Road & Starview Lane). 1998 Specialized Stumpjumper makes cameo.

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🚲 Little pocket by railways & Wilson (near previously mentioned Ann Arbour). Cool fence pattered I’ve not seen before (DIY? Could do a coffee table book) & local councillor type-size brinkmanship.

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A few more from last evening. There’s a spookiness at dusk along old “Indian Line” as the tall towers along the 427 light the way. Scrubby land by the damn/reservoir. I’d have gone further north but lack of sidewalks, night + 80km+ everyone makes it rather hostile.

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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 15h

Interesting. What I loved about the Phoenix is it was ~tucked in~. Walking by you'd never think "concert hall with long history in both Toronto's music and ethnic club scene".

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This is getting super interesting. While I'm not certain yet what exactly is going on, at the moment, it seems like Canada was used to establish the bona fides of an AI "journalist" who subsequently went on to engage in foreign interference in Morocco..... www.turkiyetoday.com/world/exclus...

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Exclusive—Fake AI columnist dupes Canadian press to target Moroccan dissidents, and a Turkish 'middleman' - Türkiye Today

The phantom writer communicated exclusively via email and rarely phoned Canadian publications, who were oblivious until Türkiye Today unraveled the matter

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Yeah. In our first Kensington Market iteration of [murmur] I went there and recorded stories from a guy who grew up in the market. IIRC his parents owned a hardware store, recalled the boys who went on found Cadillac Fairview running around. Must have been towards 80, 23, years ago.

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Best 105 memory -- watching old Kids in the Hall "Buddy" clips and Scott Thompson makes reference to going back to "105 Isabella" after the bars. Surely watched that in original run & made no note of it, but hair on arms when up when watching at 105.

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I did see him stoop and scoop on Yonge street when I was sitting in a cafe at Yonge and Roxborough many years ago. So he does believe in society at least (post Ayn Rand)

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The building was an energy pig - of it's time - I'd have to open the balcony door in winter because the radiators were pumping out a January inferno.

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Some people can't even walk down Isabella or Jarvis now because of that stucco. Sensitive, you might say, but it's important to have standards. It's called civilization.

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