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No-one's perfect. Darren O'Donnell, for instance, is a spectacularly creative and interesting Torontonian responsible for some of the city's most thrilling projects. As he admitted in Eye's cover story about him from the beginning of April, he's also “paranoid...It’s a mental-health issue. I just think everyone hates me because I hate myself. So it’s very difficult to project that over everyone and everything all of the time.” According to the article, written by Eye's newest staff writer, Chandler Levack—an article significantly less charitable to its subject than you might imagine—O'Donnell's seeing a therapist, and, "in 1993, he spent three days in the psych ward of Toronto General, suffering from delusions that included believing that he could cure AIDS, that 'the universe was magical,' and that he could radiate dangerous high-energy beams from his eye sockets."

Last night's town hall meeting was an auspicious birth ceremony for the week-old Department of Culture. Speaker Naomi Klein termed it a “movement moment” and member Darren O'Donnell could only say “Holy fuck!” to the attendance, as more than triple the expected number of people crowded into the AC-less Theatre Centre. Leaflets were used by every member of the crowd to cool themselves while community leaders stirred existing anger at the Harper government. “You don't need to stoke the fires; the fires are already stoked, we are all hot,” punned Claire Hopkinson of the Toronto Arts Council.