Chris Taylor

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• Commented on School Cops Will Not Be Casual, Public Babies Will Not Be Hungry, Darcy Tucker Will Not Be Leaf
  In the late 80s when I went to school in York Region, the only time we say the cops was at school dances and big-crowd events. It was a pretty rare event. But when I transferred to a Toronto high...
• Commented on Overkill And The City
  that doesn't make them vain, desperate airheads any more than turning out for Iron Man on opening weekend makes you a smelly, deluded man-child. Uhm... Can't it be "yes" to both counts?...
• Commented on "Any Club That Wouldn't Have Me As A Member…"
  The CC ads are hilarious, but then they are aimed at rye drinkers, and Canadian rye is for peasants. Try something with finesse, like Black Maple Hill 18yo, and you will leave the world of Canuck paint thinners behind. Better...
• Commented on Class War Begins, Kids Stupid, Olympic Torch Home
  There are plenty of things that can or should ignite a political shitstorm around the way justice is administered, Patrick, but none of them are likely top of mind. First, it's important to know whether a criminal court or a...
• Commented on Class War Begins, Kids Stupid, Olympic Torch Home
  Uhm... So the fact that the stabbing suspect might have a prior record of violent crimes is a political angle, as opposed to a jurisprudential one? Be sure to let the Supreme Court know, because there are recividists all over...
• Commented on GM Slashes Jobs, UN Tackles Food Prices, Magic Boots Raptors
  I like how CUPE is threatening further labour unrest if Toronto City Council decides to slap the "essential service" label on the TTC. Yup, that will definitely get the public on-side. Smoooooooth....
• Commented on Corporate Subway Considered, Water Too Cheap, McGuinty Talks Trains
  I for one would like to see "Coxwell by Cialis", "Fairmont Royal York", "DuPont Lycra" and possibly "Wilson ProStaff". Ditch the street names completely and make life a living hell for anybody visiting from somewhere else. Just assign random product...
• Commented on Corporate Subway Considered, Water Too Cheap, McGuinty Talks Trains
  Rek, your horizons are too small! Think outside the box. Station names that change monthly (or weekly), depending on the sponsor or product! Sure, there will be a few minor upgrades to the stations names. Need pixelboards or LCDs in...
• Commented on Harper Says No, Art Car Good To Go, Cheers For Generous Joe
  He was 40 years old when he made those comments. It may have been 17 years ago but he wasn't a kid shooting off his mouth. He was a grown man with fully formed opinions. Despite his apology I doubt...
• Commented on TTC Troubles, Tibet Troubles, Rob Ford...You Get The Idea
  Hopefully they will extend the subway delays a little longer so that everyone else on the train will have time to run down to Gateway and grab a snack, too....
• Commented on Missin' the Bussin
  I think we could probably come up with something better than (in the words of former TT chair Howard Moscoe) "early Canadian bathroom architecture". The reno'ed Museum station, for instance, is going to look great. Granted it will only last...
• Commented on TTC Troubles, Tibet Troubles, Rob Ford...You Get The Idea
  I for one thought the Chris Farley joke was gold. There is a resemblance beyond the weight factor. I didn't think the accompanying pic had anything to do with it....
• Commented on A Million Little Pieces
  My satisfaction with the TTC is inversely proportional to the amount of time I have to spend on surface routes. If you can get there by subway, it's fast and easy and convenient. And if there's stupidity or rudeness on...
• Commented on Stair Decisis
  I usually just haul the bike up into a vertical position (resting on its rear wheel) and walk it down the stairs, using the handlebars. Works fine with both an 18lb carbon wonder and a much heavier 80lb Canadian Tire...
• Commented on The Great Torontoist Challenge: White Tea Edition
  For my taste buds, Mighty Leaf's loose teas beat anything the local shops can offer. It's a little more expensive but well worth it. You can buy their tea pouches at lots of local joints, but the loose stuff is...
• Commented on Can Video Games Be Socially Conscious?
  Can Video Games Be Socially Conscious? Yes. But can they be fun and socially conscious? Doubt it. Would you rather play aspiring musicians in Rock Band, or toothless international bureaucrats trying to get real national-level action in United Nations Framework...
• Commented on PhotoTO: Snowballs!
  Those are terrific photos, great action shots. Well done. Bit of an irony that many schools in Toronto (and elsewhere) have banned snowball fights on school property. I can hardly imagine what those poor kids are actually allowed to do...
• Commented on The Great Torontoist Challenge: Sushi Bar Edition
  Nami is where it's at. But yes, you're going to pay through the nose for it....
• Commented on Subways More Expensive Here, So Are Mobile Phones, And So Will Be Space Travel
  Virgin Galactic unveils the design of their sub-orbital pleasure spacecraft. HEY KIDS! Have fun ranking this on a scale of energy waste from one through ten, where one is "shoes that light up" and ten is "those trucks with the...
• Commented on Ontario Power Generation Are No More
  Some dumb musicians have to give it a go in every generation. By now it should be obvious that the existing titleholder might not be willing to share it. i.e. Chicago Transit Authority (Chicago), The Dust Brothers (Chemical Brothers), Mookie...
• Commented on Everything Bugs Bunny Didn't Teach You About Opera
  Mostly the characterisation of "old rich people" vs "old people"... Old people are naturally more likely to speak a second language, aren't they? Totally agree on the Leafs though. I have sworn off buying tickets until they show their good-faith...
• Commented on School Mayhem Revealed, Other Hillary Dead, Gas Getting Pricier
  Point of clarification: Aviation uses the term roll to indicate a banking or change along the roll axis of the aircraft's centre of gravity... this is not typically how civiians use the term roll. In layman terms, the AC aircraft...
• Commented on Everything Bugs Bunny Didn't Teach You About Opera
  But if your ambition to appreciate the finer things in life extends beyond Bugs Bunny, real opera could be an intimidating world of old rich people, dead composers, elitist intellectualism and impenetrable European languages. Erm... have you been to the...
• Commented on Villain: Chapters, Indigo, Coles, Smithbooks, etc.
  Housewares is code for "suburbanite", a.k.a. an SUV-driving earth rapist who buys mindlessly and needlessly because they're all consumption-indoctrinated moist robots with no will of their own. Or at least it seems that way to the kids from Brampton who...
• Commented on Party Somewhat Less Hard, Possibly On A GO Bus, While Avoiding Burger King
  I think the fries are considerably less awesome if there's no sauce to accompany them. The sauce is the awesome part... the fries are just sawdust....
• Commented on Because the Real Toronto Isn't Ugly Enough?
  Hopefully they will take all of that painstaking animation and turn it into an old-school Lucasarts adventure game. Something like Sam & Max: Freelance Urban Activists, or Day of the OMB Tentacle....
• Commented on TPL Says "Hi" to Wi-Fi
  I'm all for installing whatever it takes to make the staff at Runnymede branch faster and less surly....
• Commented on Clicking On This Video Was No Accident
  I remember some WCBO ads from the olden days when I was a kid. They featured guys getting pieces of nail in their eye and hydro linemen getting electocuted and so on. You didn't actually see the guy's face in...
• Commented on Throne Speech Priorities, Assholes Steal Kids' Christmas Money, and The Raptors Go Deep
  Getting the goods on Icelandic Faux-Bomberman was terrific. If you guys had toys and playsets, I would buy one for sure....
• Commented on David: Lynch?
  I am not Royson James' biggest fan, but I think that he has a sharp eye when it comes to municipal coverage. And it's hilarious that he's sticking rhetorical pins in the mayor....