Historicist: "The city that nobody loves"
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Another work from the West Queen West Department of anoNyMouS Awesomeness. Sometime between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. on the last night of April, some fuzzy soul(s) pasted a swatch of green fun fur on the bus shelter bench in front of Woolfitt's, once again adding some love to the corner of Queen West and Abell. This isn't what they mean by the "Art and Design District", is it?
Initially we were unsure if this was some kind of raver fashion-inspired glamourbombing or just a colourful upgrade, but we can tell you now it sure is comfy! Never again will we have to sit on cold, hard metal waiting for the Queen streetcar.
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Like shouting revolutionary slogans at a Communist rally, this sort of thing is preaching to the converted. Try carpeting a bus-shelter seat at, say, Don Mills and Eglinton, or handy the Cloverdale Mall.
Stop the presses! Joe clark thinks something isn't good enough!
*yawn*
I seem to remember a phrase that goes something like, "Think globally, act locally."
West Queen West is an incubator of ideas. If so inclined, a local from one of the 'hoods you mentioned could easily replicate it, having seen it on the internet. For an artist to invade (with fun fur) an intersection to which she is not indigenous smacks of entryism.
Innovation has to take place somewhere!
You know, if you limber up and work at it for a couple of months, you can learn to fellate yourself, thus sparing the need to sit at the computer and protecting your fingers from the strain of typing.
so comfy!
Noticed this morning that the fur is gone from the seat, and now that bench is just an ugly mess of glue and fur chunks. I hope that whomever put the fur on that bench in the first place has the decency to go back and clean up the mess they created. Now you can't even sit on that bench at all.