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We understand why you'd be confused about that, "lguy." Fred Armisen is in fact offensive, but that is mostly because he sucks so very, very badly.

We're sure they thought it was a good idea at the time.

Blackface: probably still not the best idea for a Halloween costume.

Raptors Guard José Calderon is in something of a bad spot. He and fellow members of the Spanish Olympic Men's Basketball team posed for a full-page ad that ran in Marca, Spain's largest newspaper, for courier company Seur. In that ad (pictured above), every team member pulls their eyes into slits. (The women's team has an identical ad.) Get it? Cause the Olympics—sorry, Orympics—are in China!

This, today's Globe and Mail editorial cartoon.

The TTC says that they plan to improve service on the 501 Queen streetcar route, which has been the object of much complaint over unpredictable service and frequent delays. The good news story here is that National Geographic recently declared the route one of the top ten streetcar trips in the world, so next time you're standing out in the freezing sleet desperately scanning the horizon for a glimpse of that red rocket, make sure you smile at a tourist.

Rarely does a Toronto murder get such visceral international attention.

Sears is threatening to sue Ryerson University after the department store giant dropped $10 million in donations and didn't get a building named after them. Sears claims they were promised top billing and instead only got a crappy logo inside a structure named after some guy who's probably never sold a single pair of wrinkle-free slacks. They're requesting a full building and a commitment from the University that campus hipsters will wear only Sears-bought clothing for the next five years.

Each weekday morning, we pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!

Spring appears to have, er, sprung, at least temporarily, in most of the Ist-A-Verse, so naturally, we're all feeling pretty good. (Yes, we know that spring doesn't start till later this month. Just let us enjoy our weather!) And that makes us that much more eager to share all of the nifty things we're up to...

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost.

Who likes lists? Everybody! As we creep up on the new year, we thought we'd reflect on a few of our more popular (and our more controversial) posts of the past twelve months. Thanks to our revamped Favourites page, it's a little easier. If nothing else, this post will give you some reading material to glance over while you're busy getting spiffy for this fine evening.

Let's look back at a week in which no site in the -ist network adopted anyone from Africa...

won’t-be-down-with-that flick, being shown tonight as part of Cinematheque Ontario’s Canada’s Top Ten programme (8:45pm, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas West). The showing is preceded at 6:30pm by a fascinating panel – Pop Culture as History/History as Pop Culture, featuring Atom Egoyan (of Canada’s Top Ten film Where the Truth Lies) and Jean-Marc Vallee (of the aforementioned C.R.A.Z.Y), curated by Eye Weekly’s Jason Anderson. Sadly completely sold out, you can arrive early and hope for a rush ticket hope there is a ticket scalper outside, but the film is available, sans panel, at the Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor West) all week long.