G20 Protester Chased at Toronto Pride Parade
Before the Toronto's 30th annual Pride Parade began yesterday, I caught some drama running past. A protester pretending to be police officer in riot g
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Bob Lake
Posted on September 3, 2010 by David Barker
Who is Bob? Remember the crazy killer named Bob on Twin Peaks? Maybe the lake was named after him. Or maybe it was named for someone even more insane, my uncle Bob Barker, the guy who loved to kiss women and talk about the price of refrigerators and what was behind his doors. Whatever the so
Lake Catchacoma
Posted on September 3, 2010 by David Barker
By the end of the summer in southern Ontario, there's enough daytime temperature variation that you'll get a misty condensation above the water in the early morning. If you're lucky, you'll get a photographic orgasm, as I did, on Sunday morning looking east across Lake Catchacoma in the Kawartha L
Ghostbusters – a privatization propaganda film?
Posted on July 27, 2010 by David Barker
On planet Dave, there is a special governmental agency called the Department of Epidemiology and Immigration. I've come to regard these two disciplines as sub-specialties of the same concern. One worries about foreign bodies that are microscopic; the other worries about foreign bodies that are h
Graffiti: books
I love this little piece of graffiti I found near the intersection of Nassau St. & Spadina Ave. in Toronto. As graffiti, it's not great. File
Photos from Toronto Pride Parade 2010
Here are 300 images from yesterday's 30th annual Toronto Pride Parade which wraps up Pride Week, a nice change from the G20 circus that rolled into to
Black Bloc McProtest
On Friday June 25, 2010, the day before the G20 Summit, I accompanied my wife to her place of work on the northern limit of the secured zone in Downto
Rally to Demand Inquiry into Actions Concerning G20
I celebrated Canada Day by engaging in the highest form of patriotism which, according to Howard Zinn, is dissent. When it comes to laws passed in se
G20 Summit Protests in Toronto
We (my wife and I) went down to the planned protests at Queen's Park. It was moving to witness all the different concerns/causes/stories/sufferings
Eternal Flame of Hope extinguished for Toronto G20
Since my post on Monday, the mood in downtown Toronto has changed. For one thing, it's empty. The people there are either police officers and secu
Updates: Pride Toronto, Bill C-32, Kobo, Apple Censorship
A bunch of my posts need updates and rather than create a lot of little posts, I'm "batch-processing" them. Pride Toronto and Anti-Israeli Aparthei
Graffiti in Toronto
Culture is not an industry. It is not a sector of the economy. Culture is a condition. It is the social trailings of my solitary consciousness.Â
Poem: O Captain! My Captain
I wrote this poem just the other day in anticipation of all the captains that will be zooming into town this weekend. Can any of them inspire the ki
G20 Bullshit Report
Me and my camera spent yesterday wandering around downtown Toronto to see what we could see of preparations for the G20 summit which will be blessing
Burning in Stockholm
Another shaggy dog story. Shaggy at least. We've seen one of the characters before -- Mrs. Karsh -- the annoying dog-walking neighbour in "Marking
