Comments on: New ball day

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:33:14 +0000

It is the loveliest of lovelies here as far as scenery goes. However, I find the rampant prejudice and racism a la 1950s taints the beauty for me somewhat.

And I suppose you are right. I don’t miss Honest Ed’s nearly as much as I miss Ted’s Collision on college street.

By: Caitlin Jane

Caitlin Jane — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:48:17 +0000

Well, Laura, looking on google maps, I’d say that where you live looks pretty amazing. While I haven’t been there, exactly, I took the train from London to Cornwall a few years ago and got to see a lot of the Southern coast of England and it’s all very beautiful.

When I lived near Honest Ed’s I was there a lot but as soon as I moved away from that ‘hood, I lost all interest in it.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:29:30 +0000

I live in Shoreham-by-sea which i lovely and everything you want in a small picturesque town where one is raising a child. A part of my heart, however, will forever be stuck in the mold infested walls of the grossly neglected, multi-roommate inhabiting house on Markham street where I lived in my previous life. Oh to be a stone’s throw from Honest Ed’s dust encrusted oddities and sniffing distance from the roasty aroma of the Moonbean cafe.
We are not too far from Dover, tis ’bout an hour’s drive to the east of us.

By: Caitlin Jane

Caitlin Jane — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:21:22 +0000

Laura, streetcars do, indeed, have their charms-but I prefer the Spadina car. Bathurst car is slow and irregular and I’ve given up waiting outside Dee’s many times, speed walking to the subway instead.

I’m curious about what small town in England you live in. My family’s from Dover-ish.

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:27:04 +0000

What?! I am mouth agape, jaw droppingly grossed out! Poop in the ball pit? I get grossed out enough by all the anonymous hair clumps in places like that, but the thought of my daughter happily chewing on a plastic ball with some other kid’s crap dried on there…well, I will never be able to let her play at Ikea and she will never know why.
Also, I miss the bathurst street car.

By: Caitlin Jane

Caitlin Jane — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:21:11 +0000

GAAAAAHHH!! Poop in the yellow bags? BLARGH!

By: R

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:31:44 +0000

The poop thing is true. There are also a lot of diapers in those giant bins of those big yellow bags that you shop around in….choose a cart!

By: Twwly

Twwly — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:41:51 +0000

Maybe the moving nude exterior lighting?

By: Caitlin Jane

Caitlin Jane — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:23:44 +0000

Well, as far as the Big Bop goes, just so long as they put in a NICE big box furniture store to usurp yet another venue where local up and coming bands play, it’s good by me.

Or. Wait. No! Bad, it’s baaa-aa-aaaad.

The evangelical church, which, while I disagree wholeheartedly with organized religion in general, does a Wednesday night community dinner which I am considering volunteering for.

Ari says about Paradise “It’s the place where ladies dance without clothes.” How’d she know that??!

By: Twwly

Twwly — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:51:10 +0000

I guess they called it Paradise on purrrrpose. Wowza.

Ditto the WOWZA about the Big Bop!