Extra, Extra: Shit, Shit, and Other Shit

By David Topping

Torontoist closes out each weekday with a quick collection of just about everything we think you ought to care about (or ought not miss)—say hi to Extra, Extra.

Toronto’s first pay toilet, as it stood earlier in May. Photo by Miles Storey/Torontoist.

• It was potty time down at Queens Quay and Rees Street this afternoon, as the City launched its first pay toilet, which we wrote about earlier this month and will have more about tomorrow. While media outlets go pun-hunting, OpenFile’s asking if the high cost has meant money’s been flushed down the toilet, too.
• How many of our least favourite things can we fit into a sentence? Local gossip blogger Zack Taylor (1) is part of a $20 million bid publicity stunt (2), on the part of the owners of HotorNot.com (3), to buy Perez Hilton‘s blog (4). Boy, we’re pooped. [via Karen Whaley]
• Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier is no class act, either. He took the piss out of a Toronto Boing Boing reader intending to boycott Chartier’s company, Voltage Pictures, because of their sue-happy stance on downloading Voltage’s movies, in an email that included lines like “keep being stupid.”
• And congratulations to Woodhands, who got their wish to be on CP24 fulfilled during last night’s televised mayoral debate, after an unvetted tweet suggesting the band oughta be mayor landed on the channel’s ticker, the result of the station pulling in tweets tagged “#CP24mayor.” You’re the shit, Woodhands.

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CORRECTION: MAY 19, 2010 About the new pay toilet, this article originally said that OpenFile asked whether the “City flushed money down the toilet.” OpenFile has suggested the cans are expensive, but their article notes that the cost’s not the City’s.