Benjamin Boles
@benjaminboles
I cut hair and sometimes make music. Retired music journalist. He/they Toronto
Judge Judy is glitching up in the weirdest way. It’s like those early Doctor Who episodes where they lost the footage, but recreated them with the original audio set to a slideshow of stills.
I guess they assumed the original sign tackled all the possibilities
Anyway, here’s a bit of what he was playing last night. I’m not certain this particular moment was him remixing stems, but I’m pretty sure it was.
I’m so curious about the single person who is going to see the Melanie doc alone this weekend at this Toronto theatre.
I feel like this is pretty close to what we got when Mel Lastman called in the army
My building is bigger than that one, but probably still only takes up the amount of land that a couple single family homes would on my street. I think we have about 40 apartments, all of them two or three bedrooms. Can you imagine how the housing market would change if this were legal to build now?
We got our dog after his owner died, and it’s been very rewarding to provide him with a good retirement and a safe home to deal with his trauma and grief.
Got one of my cataracts operated on last week, and now one eye feels like high definition digital video and the other is 1970s film stock. Had to ask the eye doctor today if sex counts as “strenuous physical activity”, which was mildly embarrassing. Surgery was much less unpleasant than I feared.
If you’re as mad as me about this, here’s an email address you can contact. This sign is from the community centre itself, who seem to feel the fence is the only way to de-escalate tensions between the wealthy homeowners nearby and the people who hang out in the parkette.
Some rich NIMBYs didn’t like seeing poor people hanging out in the parkette next to the community centre, so the city decided to put up fences so that no one can use it. I am furious. I am very curious how Olivia Chow and Gord Perks will explain this.
I think my dog wants to check out the reggae party my neighbours are throwing in the alley behind their building. Toronto is a fun town sometimes
First computer we owned loaded entire games off one of these. I think you could get 100kB per 30 minute tape.
Just saw this tote bag for sale at the Bloor West street fest #ProtectTheDolls
I am always excited to see a homemade sound system. Something about big speaker boxes made out of unpainted wood makes me so happy.
I think that’s the reality: incremental steps are not going to get us there. We should legalize midrise everywhere. There’s no reason buildings like mine shouldn’t be on any residential street
They probably don’t need signs like this in all-gender washrooms, but it’s still appreciated
Volunteering today at this event for frontline harm reduction workers that my partner is organizing. Venue fell through last minute, but they managed to figure out a solution
Maybe it’s a good thing that Conservative voters are flying flags like this alongside campaign signs. Helpfully reminds Canadians that Pierre is the pro-Trump and anti-Canada candidate
It always scares and impresses me to watch workers take down trees
The Littlest Hobo was a weird Canadian TV show about a dog that wandered the country helping strangers. I found an old photograph of me as a child with the dogs that played his role in the show (I’m the kid in the middle):