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Idle Idolatry
Mookie Morris isn’t the only local Canadian Idol contestant with a lawn-based cheering section. We spotted this sign for Sebastian Pigott on an east end street yesterday evening, mere minutes before he was voted off the island, or whatever it is that they do to eliminate false Idols. Sebastian’s hunky full-colour signs put Mookie’s single-colour quickies to shame, but a slick sign is obviously not enough to guarantee a win in a teenybopper popularity contest.
The local boys’ duelling signs and extension of their contest to the city’s front lawns—and people’s willingness to publicly declare their pop culture allegiances—are definitely attention-grabbing, but not so much so that we’d actually vote or sit through an episode of Canadian Idol. It’s kinda like a real election that way.
Photo by Val Dodge.