Pictures, not Proms.
Sep. 14th, 2014 01:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tetsabIn a fit of What The Heck... Let's Do Something Totally Strange I agreed to go with my Mum to a live screening of the Last Night of the Proms at a Cineplex Odeon theatre this afternoon. The reason this was Totally Strange (other than the fact that they would do such a thing in the first place) is that flag-waving Rah Rah Rah of any sort is pretty much the opposite of My Thing but boy did it turn out to be interesting. Unfortunately I can't quite brain right now so we'll have to see how much of the Interesting Stuff I remember by next weekend (at the earliest).
What I've got instead are a few shots from about a ~one block radius of where I work and a bonus set of my cat since the Internet is for cats (but really it's 'cause they're all crummy cellphone pictures).
My workplace is in Parkdale (where 97% of a.g.'s Toronto population lives or has lived) just south of an alley called The Milky Way. If you walk just over one block of the Milky Way going from east to west you can see (though in the first case no longer see) these three things:
(No Longer A) Thing One is this little crowned bird logo:
I got lucky on this because the reason it's no longer a thing is because it was pretty hard to see unless that white panel was standing behind it, which it only ever was a couple of times I walked by it. It just so happens that the last time this was the case I got this before the blackbird flew and was replaced with an inversion:
I miss the shadow bird of the first one but I like the new reflections.
Keep going down the block and you'll get to Thing Two:
I knew there was a (probably commercial) story behind this one since I'd also seen stickers of the same robot around on the main street. I'd been assuming some sort of band but actually it's Much Worse. ;)
Thing Three is my favourite (even if it is anti-rat). One of the black alley doors of the Milky Way is painted with a logo, motto, and meeting times of (what turns out to be) a jogging group called The Parkdale Roadrunners. Straight across from this door (and down!) there's this:
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If you kept going down the Milky Way another block you'd get to this. I wonder how long it will take for a Random Internet Person to solve their 'why Milky Way?' mystery. :)
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In another galaxy far, far away from my work there's the cat I inherited.
I've tried to put her in the laundry bucket in the past and she'd have None of It so this was a (very minor) Science Experiment 'cause I'd just gotten back from visiting a cat shelter my sister volunteers at every Saturday and so the clothes she's sitting on in that bucket would have had the scent of the kitty hoards all over them. Based on how she reacts to the cats of this 'hood and even to imagined Bad Kitties I have to assume that she was just asserting her dominant stink on top of them all here. ;)
What I've got instead are a few shots from about a ~one block radius of where I work and a bonus set of my cat since the Internet is for cats (but really it's 'cause they're all crummy cellphone pictures).
My workplace is in Parkdale (where 97% of a.g.'s Toronto population lives or has lived) just south of an alley called The Milky Way. If you walk just over one block of the Milky Way going from east to west you can see (though in the first case no longer see) these three things:
(No Longer A) Thing One is this little crowned bird logo:
I got lucky on this because the reason it's no longer a thing is because it was pretty hard to see unless that white panel was standing behind it, which it only ever was a couple of times I walked by it. It just so happens that the last time this was the case I got this before the blackbird flew and was replaced with an inversion:
I miss the shadow bird of the first one but I like the new reflections.
Keep going down the block and you'll get to Thing Two:
I knew there was a (probably commercial) story behind this one since I'd also seen stickers of the same robot around on the main street. I'd been assuming some sort of band but actually it's Much Worse. ;)
Thing Three is my favourite (even if it is anti-rat). One of the black alley doors of the Milky Way is painted with a logo, motto, and meeting times of (what turns out to be) a jogging group called The Parkdale Roadrunners. Straight across from this door (and down!) there's this:
.If you kept going down the Milky Way another block you'd get to this. I wonder how long it will take for a Random Internet Person to solve their 'why Milky Way?' mystery. :)
* * *
In another galaxy far, far away from my work there's the cat I inherited.
I've tried to put her in the laundry bucket in the past and she'd have None of It so this was a (very minor) Science Experiment 'cause I'd just gotten back from visiting a cat shelter my sister volunteers at every Saturday and so the clothes she's sitting on in that bucket would have had the scent of the kitty hoards all over them. Based on how she reacts to the cats of this 'hood and even to imagined Bad Kitties I have to assume that she was just asserting her dominant stink on top of them all here. ;)