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Scenes from a world-class city

I especially love the professionalism evident in the last photo, don't you? I hope he was wearing sunscreen - the UV ratings have been pretty high this summer.

I think the number one lesson to be learned from 754 Indian Road is, if you don't want this to happen in your neighbourhood, you need to watch the built heritage in your area like a hawk. If a "For Sale" sign appears in front of an old church or a school or an interesting house, get on it - or delegate a heritage-freak librarian (like me!) to get on it for you. Find out what's going on. Find out if the building has heritage value and if you can get it designated, by the city and/or the province.

The Indian Road Baptist Church was designed by a Junction architect, James A Ellis, in the early 20th century. The firm of Ellis & Connery designed many notable Junction buildings, including the synagogue on Maria St (it is still used for worship - it's the oldest such synagogue in Toronto) and the building that currently houses the Runneymede health centre, at Runneymede and St John's Road, which is, surprise! slated for demolition. It absolutely disgusts me that built heritage that has such a strong local component can and will be destroyed. As we say in the online world, WTF? This is completely unacceptable.

Let's face it, Toronto is not a pretty city. It was designed by accountants, not artists (yes, I know that's not strictly true but you know what I'm saying). I'm no expert, but I have several years' experience as an urbanite behind me, and, quite frankly, Toronto leaves much to be desired. But the older buildings, like this church, are something that Toronto does right. They anchor neighbourhoods, they're landmarks. They give streets character. Our built heritage is a tangible connection to the past. I think that's important. Our buildings have stories to tell: stories about the people who settled in an area and how the neighbourhood evolved. They can teach us about architectural styles, the influences of different architectural movements and schools of thought, and even about things like local (and not so local) building materials that were popular at the time of their construction. As we like to say in the LIS world, they're information-rich. But if they're torn down, they're lost forever. All that information, all those stories, that anchor - gone. Bye bye. And 99% of the time, what goes up in their place is architecturally insensitive (i.e. doesn't fit in the neighbourhood), or bland, or just plain ugly. And not rich. And sure, it tells a story - it tells a story about a city that doesn't value its heritage and doesn't respect the wishes of its residents and allows developers to destroy buildings designed by local architects who lived and worked with the people in the area, and put up ugly, unimaginative, dime-a-dozen, cookie-cutter buildings that have nothing to do with the neighbourhood in the place of buildings that did.

Hear me now

Yep, I'm still here. Just busy and not much to post about. Harry & Marmalade are still cute and still getting bigger.

Last night, Phil and I watched some of the Da Ali G show (on his laptop - I haven't turned my television on in over a month and you know? I don't miss it at all). We howled with laughter but also squirmed with embarassment for his victims guests. Respek. Respek.

Day of rest indeed

Yanked out of sleep (and a weird dream about crossing the Champlain Bridge in a bus and watching migrating monarch butterflies negotiate the traffic) at 7.55 AM by the sound of Marmalade attempting to hurl on the duvet. My first instinct was to push him off the bed and onto the floor. This can only mean one of two things:
Although I love them dearly, my cats are not substitutes for babies.
I will make a terrible mother.

Anyway, he puked under my desk. Better than on the duvet cover, which would have to be schlepped down to the basement and washed for $4 - loonies or quarters only. I cleaned up the puke and attended to the cat, who seemed fine - not hiding, not in pain, not lethargic.

And in fact, just minutes later, he was chowing down on his Iams cat crunchies. I shrugged and made coffee.

But before the coffee had even cooled enough to drink, Marmalade was puking again - in his own bed this time. Again, I got out the rubber gloves, the paper towels, the cleaning and odour-removing supplies (all non-toxic and safe to use around pets, so I know he's not reacting to those).

By the time I was making a second cup of coffee, he was eating again. I don't get it.

Overheard in New York

Setting the scene:

Starbuck's, Upper Eastside of New York, Sunday morning.  I'm standing in line waiting for my grande soy cappuccino (with an extra shot of caffeine-goodness) when all hell breaks loose to my right in the small space between the "retail" wall with mugs and syrups and the counter where you pick up your drinks.  A small green tic tac glistens on the floor.  A small hand snatches it and eats it. 

The source of the noise?  A small New Yorker, perhaps 3 or 4 in age, dressed from head to toe in pink, including pink rain boots.  Her opponent?  A beleaguered mother pushing a baby stroller and juggling multiple bags.

Mom with Bags:  "I am serious.  Spit that OUT!"

Pink Boots:  "I am serious too, mommy.  No."

Mom with Bags:  "You cannot, CAN-NOT pick up things off the floor and put them in your mouth.  It's dangerous.  It's disgusting.  I am talking very serious here and you have to listen to me.  Spit it out."

Pink Boots, now with hands on hips, extending her tongue:  "All gone.  I am talking serious too, mommy.  You didn't make breakfast.  You never make breakfast.  I get my own food."

And the barista calls out an iced skim latte for mom.

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Graffiti--What's New is Old

When I first moved to New York, the streets were remarkably free of graffiti. This is no surprise, since I moved to New York in the Guiliani years and after the controversial 1995 Anti-Graffiti Task Force/Quality of Life crime enforcement. And, in particular, in my neighborhood, there was no graffiti whatsoever. Lately, however, a group of kids have been tagging in my neighborhood and it's really given me pause. I have always been a fan of graffiti that makes me think, that interrupts the urban landscape, that poses questions, problems, and challenges. In short, graffiti as political protest and graffiti as subversive commentary speaks to me. From the Brooklyn Museum: Forms of graffiti have been discovered on ancient Roman and Mayan architecture and like today were both illegal and a form of communication. Modern graffiti, which is associated with hip-hop culture and spans all racial and economic groups, began in the mid- to late 1960s; it made its way to New York City and quickly became a phenomenon. Urban youth used the sides of subway trains and buildings as their canvases, reclaiming sections of their neighborhoods by "tagging" them with stylized renditions of their names or the names of the groups they formed. The self-taught graffiti artists turned the walls of public (and sometimes private) buildings into giant panoramas and subway cars into moving murals. I "get" the history of graffiti, and I think it's an important form of social commentary. For example, early on in my New York life, I got lost trying to get to the BQE. I ended up on a street in Brooklyn, lodged between a police depot and a large urban housing project. On the wall of one of the buildings was an amazing piece that said "Ain't no fuckin' co-op here." Thus, the beginning of my awareness about housing issues in New York. But lately, I've been annoyed in my neighborhood because a tagger/group of taggers have taken to scribbling on every possible surface, including the wall of a local preschool. And I hate it! Seriously? The poor janitor for that school is perpetually painting over the word "srry." Can you imagine a lifetime of erasing sorry? It's just obnoxious and I find myself wanting to find the kid who keeps doing it and slap him/her silly. So, I've been struggling with what that means. In response, I've spent the last few weeks taking pictures of graffiti. My eye is definitely drawn to the more colorful pieces.