Cease and Desist
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Dear Torontonians:

It has come to my attention that a small group of you have discharged your firearms in or near the vicinity of Yonge St. and Dundas Ave. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I have reserved the right to be afraid for my girlfriend who lives in the area.

Your shootings on December 26th, 2005 near the Foot Locker sports retail store on Yonge St. and Sheppard Ave. in which a young girl was needlessly killed, and the shooting on November 22nd, 2006, at Yonge St. and Shuter Ave., have caused me and my girlfriend distress.

You neither asked for nor received permission to discharge said firearms in either intersections on either occasion. Therefore, I believe you have willfully infringed my right as a boyfriend under section 84 of the Canada Criminal Code, et seq. and could be liable for statutory damages as high as $100,000.

I demand that you immediately cease the discharge of all firearms within a 2 KM radius of my girlfriend's apartment, and that you desist from this or any other infringement of my rights in the future. If I have not received an affirmative response from you by January 31st, 2007 indicating that you have fully complied with these requirements, I shall consider taking the full legal remedies available to rectify this situation.
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It's All About the Hamiltons, Baby
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http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=zLElfJ9YCh0
http://www.livejournal.com/users/the_ism/104593.html for the lyrics
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Evidence That They Are Sitting at Home on Friday and Saturday Nights
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From "Weekend Bloggers":

At Urban Vancouver, Ray wonders what bloggers do during the weekends. I wondered that myself, since the best and most writing seems to come on weekdays, where on weekends bloggers either have lives or, like Ray suggests, don’t have access to the work computer. My computer is my work computer. Maybe most bloggers would just rather not provide evidence that they are sitting at home on Friday and Saturday nights?

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Ephemeral?
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From "These Cities Could Be Destined to Become Hollow Places":

I keep returning to an article and conversation about Vancouver in which the memorable comments describe the city as a “self centred, silly little place where the locals vastly overstate their importance, so much so [that] we have become an international embarrassment” and more succinctly, “a three dressed up as a nine”. I tried convincing a friend that Gastown, an area she’s getting to like (and, in fairness, which she visits more than I do), is a an infuriating place where both the fake touristy crap—like the guy who dabs on top of prints, faking that he’s finishing up a painting—and extreme poverty co-exist.

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Ray asks a great question: where do bloggers/LiveJournalers go during the weekend?

Me? I sit around reading the stuff I bookmark for later, trying (and failing) to avoid blogging since it exposes me as someone who doesn't have a social life on weekends. But at least it would be an accurate impression.
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Snootier Than I Really Am
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From "Notebook 2.0":

Last night at 2 AM I looked up ‘moleskine vancouver’ and found a wiki page for where to buy Moleskine notebooks in Canada, and went with Essence Du Papier on Robson & Granville (inside the Sears building), mostly because buying something from a store with a French name makes me feel snootier than I really am (also because it was close to work).

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Smoking is a dealbreaker.
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My standards are too high.
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