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September 14, 2007

Looking At Toronto 3

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People aren't exactly tip-toeing around 9/11 anymore, are they?

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One of 3 such outdoor layouts of pirated DVDs on Spadina. The newest titles on Friday afternoon were last weekend's releases.

By the way... the most popular running gag at TIFF this year was for audience members to cry out, "Arrrrrrrr" when the piracy warning was on screen before movies.

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Kill Bill is "Still Ill" on the streets of Toronto.

Posted by poland at September 14, 2007 11:58 PM

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Nice pictures Dave.

Speaking of laughing at piracy warnings, here are a few parodies of that ubiquitous piracy warning, which I made a couple of months ago, if anyone is interested.

Seemed appropriate, not trying to spam anyone. Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr-vvKOB0lk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdSFe0UgB3E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is2KYGDp1Rs

For the record, lest my videos suggest otherwise, I don't support piracy. I simply hate those ads which infest my legitimately purchased DVDs and detract from my movie-going experience.

Posted by: hmatkin [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2007 04:42 AM

Dave,

If you like the Spadina Chinatown area you should go into the Kensington Market just a street or two over. Lots of great food and some of the best cheese and fish shops you'll find in TO.

As for tiptoeing around 9/11...yeah.

On Tuesday, one of the CBC's anchors David Gray, made this statement when saying that Americans were commemrating 9/11.

“The terrorists allegedly behind those crimes...”

"allegedly"

Sad thing is, Toronto never tip-toed around it.

Posted by: Nicol D [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2007 08:52 AM

Technically, Nicol, a journalist has to say 'allegedly' because nobody has ever been found guilty in a court of law.

Posted by: jeffmcm [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2007 09:08 AM

(don't get me wrong - I am not a 'truth movement'-er.)

Posted by: jeffmcm [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2007 09:09 AM

Hey Jeff,

Your above statement is actually incorrect.

I know you are just trying to rile me with this one so I think I'll just lest it pass. Are you familiar with the CBC?

Posted by: Nicol D [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2007 09:37 AM

No was was ever captured in the anthrax attacks around the same time as 9/11 either....glad we've safer nowadays.

Posted by: PetalumaFilms [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2007 12:25 PM

Oh, come on, Petaluma. That was perpetrated by someone with access to a difficult to obtain, regulated substance using the common mail system with copious opportunities for leaving behind any number of pieces of physical and corroborative evidence. You expected some kind of breakthrough on that case? Crazy.

Posted by: L.B. [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2007 12:56 PM

Nicol, who are you thinking of, Zacarias Moussaoui?
Would you settle, for once and for all: are you Canadian? Or do you just live there?

Posted by: jeffmcm [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2007 02:55 PM

Jay-Z dropped his album The Blueprint on the actual 9/11, back in 2001. Hip-Hop maintains.

The only people that want tip-toeing are the ones who want to exploit 9/11 and use it against their political enemies.

I was in Canada on 9/11 and have never seen such an outpouring of good will from total strangers as I did that day from Canadians. The CBC is not our enemy.

Let's hope someday we can actually celebrate a day of victory over Al Queda instead of playing politics with a day when our government failed us on an unimaginable scale.

The real way to honor the dead is to get the guys who got them. Not argue over semantics like "allegedly" - it was bullshit arguments like this that Bush used to get us into Iraq in the first place, pulling a bait and switch on the American public with lies and misleading rhetoric, and then cowardly challenging the patriotism of critics who were standing up what's right.

People with their eyes open know that the disaster of Iraq isn't just the fault of Bush, but also the fault of all his enablers and fellow dissemblers. And the worst of them, the religious charlatans who practice bigotry and hate in the name of God, are just as bad as the religious nutjobs that caused 9/11 in the first place.

Every time you raise your "alleged" talking points, you just add to the evidence that you are amongst the people who with their hate and lies have hurt America worse than any of the 9/11 hijackers ever did.

And no, I am not saying the crimes are equal. I am saying yours are much, much worse.

The lowest circle of hell worse.


Posted by: The Carpetmuncher [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2007 02:57 PM

By looking at those pirated movies, if I go backwards I see:

Evan Almighty
3:10 To Yuma
Pirates: AWE
War
The Simpsons Movie
The Bourne Ultiamtum
Live Free or Die Hard
Shoot 'Em Up
Balls of Fury

Shrek 3
Underdog
Sunshine
--don't know--
Spider-man 3
Harry Potter 5
Transformers
...Chuck and Larry
--don't know--

Nancy Drew
Superbad
Rush Hour 3
High School Musical 2
300
--don't know--
--don't know--
Sicko
Evan Almighty (again)

Nanny Diaries
Daddy Day Camp
The Number 23
1408
--don't know--
Ratatouille
--don't know--
--don't know--
The Invasion

Surfs Up
No Reservation
Halloween
FF4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
--don't know--
TMNT
Casino Royale

The rest looks like PORNO.

Posted by: NickF [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2007 05:32 PM

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