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Last night, Teletoon's The Detour held a small event in the Royal Cinema to celebrate their upcoming fall lineup, showing a selection of the adult-orientated animation that will soon be on the channel. The lineup includes the long-overdue Sealab 2021, Frisky Dingo (from the creators of Sealab 2021), Moral Orel (created by Mr. Show alumni, including Jay Johnston), and Metalocalypse, which was created by Brendon Small (who is best known for Home Movies) and Tommy Blacha (known from a variety of things including Da Ali G Show and Late Night with Conan O'Brien).

Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get to the bottom of it they interview the writer Jonathan Raban.

Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival and geeky gets taken to a whole new galaxy when they talk with the Dragon Queen of the Dark Kingdom.

Each of these exclamations could be questions due to their outright absurdity, don't you think?

The letters pages of this month's issue of Masthead magazine are positively snark-laden. Taddle Creek's Editor-in-Chief sees fit to quibble with the high praise given Spacing Mag's buttons in last mo's issue for not using an authentic TTC font. But the actual backgrounds on the pins aren't real either - Designer Matt Blackett illustrated them to represent the look of the TTC stations - so it's a bit of a silly point of contention. That said, Taddler-in-Chief Conan Tobias alights us to the fact that a TTC font is available from typographer David Vereschagin. TOist wants in on said fontage, be it postscript, truetype or falsetype.

a little too much? Perhaps? At any rate, Chart Magazine is completely out of their element. Here's our mixtape...

- Don't forget: That the Arcade Fire is on Conan tonight. Maybe he'll dance like a dodo.

. If you haven't read it yet, you should.

It's official: Toronto and NBC have broken up. NBC was caught cheating on us with a newly de-taxed New York City. And there are some bigtime issues there; Americans have this destructive love/hate thing with outsourcing, and we don't even want to deal with it. So fine then, leave. Um, like we even care? We are Hollywood of the North! We don't need NBC or Conan O'Brien or The Donald. Soon we'll have a much younger Fox News by our side anyway. Good luck on all your future endeavours NBC, we're sure you will succeed at whatever you do. Just don't forget that Eric McCormack is a Torontonian.

Having come to terms with that fact, we still like the Sherlock, but we were wondering how Conan Doyle's masterful stories can be relevant to modern audiences. Good thing the Toronto Reference Library is presenting a lecture on how Sherlock can be relevant to modern audiences. As presented by Author Les Klinger. 7 pm. The library boasts a most extensive Arthur Conan Doyle collection, but sadly it's not open on Friday night.