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A lot happens in and around Toronto, but we can only write about so much in a week. Here's the best of the rest, in a new weekly feature we're calling Superfluist. Superfluist will appear every Friday night.

A lot happens in and around Toronto, but we can only write about so much in a week. Here's the best of the rest, in a new weekly feature we're calling Superfluist. Superfluist will appear every Friday night.

There are things that go on in this city at night that are far weirder than the leather-clad teenagers on Queen West. Did you know that vampires stalk High Park? Or that Toronto Police Services crossed into another dimension to investigate a suspicious death? No? Then you should check out Karen Bennett’s Fantastic Toronto project.

At left: stills from Dr. Strangelove. At right: re-creations by Kristan Horton.

You might think the pace of life in Toronto is hectic, but we don’t even make the list when it comes to being the fastest rodents in the rat race.

No, we're not referring to ourselves in the third person. We are referring to our New York City overlords at Gothamist. Business Week has picked Jake Dobkin and Jen Chung at that fine blog in a slideshow of their (your?) favourite bloggers. We gotta say, our bosses are hot.

Torontoist feels your pain....

It's old news now, but just in case you didn't hear, Boing Boing editor and former Torontonian Cory Doctorow is one of three judges for the 2006 Blooker prize. The Lulu Blooker prize is awarded to the best non-fiction, fiction and comic books inspired by a blog (or blog turned into books). The most impressive title on the short list, in Torontoist's humble opinion is Julie Powell's Julie and Julia, the New York secretary that cooked every recipe in Julia Child's epic Mastering the Art of French Cooking. But we also have a soft spot for Toronto artist Ryan North's Dinosaur Comics. (pictured above)

The above headline is an anagram for the Better Way. Inspired by a recent anagram map of the London Underground blogger RobotJohny does a similar map of the TTC. The results are often poetic. The stations of the Scarborough RT in particular lent themselves to anagrams like "Arborescent Grouch" (Scarborough Centre), "Morrocan Wad" (McCowan Road). We also think that "A Warmer Soupy Butt" should be the TTC's new slogan.

Apparently, Canada is home to the first recorded instance of smartcartipping. Be it hoax or merely something the moderators don't want to deal with, the smartcar Canada board has removed the thread, leaving TOist curious as to the who, what, why and where. Was it senseless cruelty or pro-oil patch political statement or was there merely a strong breeze blowing? We can't tell you. But here, another site teaches you how to cartip (your own car), but cautious you against it at the same time.

Where other kids dotted their parents' mantles with piles of softball trophies and best bowler awards, TOist, being about as athletic as a doorknob, never got into the whole awards thing. In fact, we'll cross to the other side of the street to avoid an award ceremony and accompanying drippy speeches, and women 'wearing' things. Luckily, the Bloggies haven't yet booked a night at the Shrine Center. That said, today's the last day to vote in the Oscar's of Blogdom, the Weblog Awards. And TOist extends a hearty congratulations to all of the terrific Canadian nominees, Marmalade.ca, Bacon and Eh's, PhotoJunkie, Accordion Guy and our hometown contributor, Chromewaves. Accordion Guy seems to be the most into the thing - he's gone so far as to make a Bloggie-specific masthead, replete with an angular self-portrait and the kind of tie we thought only grade school band teachers wore. Way to get into the spirit! We like all the sites though, and being acompetitive TOist would like to offer a cookie to all the homegrown nominees. Email us to redeem your prize! You too Daily Dose, and Siteway, and The Narrative! And if you don't like cookies, we will send you an apple instead.