stuff to do in toronto canada

omg i was so obnoxious at this bc i wanted to like "scoff" at everything. like bits of a car stuck to a canvas. and why is everything so big. let me measure your dick please.

printed out your map r&r!

how's toronto's parks scene?

High Park is our biggest, Trinity-Bellwoods is The Hipster Choice (and if you follow my itinerary, on your way home from Queen and Spadina back to Ossington), and we have little ones sprinkled throughout! Enjoy!

Don't know if you're much for cheap books and/or DVDs, but I'd recommend both the BMV store on Queen (there are a couple of other BMVs that aren't as good) and a fantastic temporary clearout centre at Queen and Spadina. Toronto used to be great for second-hand record stores, but obviously most are long gone by now. Sonic Boom at Bloor and Bathurst is pretty good.

iatee i emailed you my # btw

underrated park is christie pits imo everything is just sorta soggy and dead atm

If you're looking for books/records there's definitely good options, just depends on what you're looking for.

ughhh you know what is a shitty time to lose your wallet? 5 hours before you leave for another country. :( :(

still goin n'all just really gd annoying

Don't forget, it's paradise up here. Just let one of our banks know, and they'll give you free money.

For the record, I once got free money from a bank in Montreal after I lost my wallet and had almost no identification...

why hasn't anyone told me about the canadian fox news wannabe station

also that canada was cold

to be stereotypically canadian for a minute: "sorry". Applies to both of the above. Toronto was cold today, yes. First time this winter. Still, it's a dry cold, eh?

it's okay I bought uniqlo heattech gear just for the trip, Japanese technology will keep me alive

I liked Kensington market. kinda haight ashbury. def getting a San francisco vibe here so far.

Lawl.

no? Victorians, streetcars, Asian people...maybe it's just due to where we've made it so far. wider streets here tho.

It's obviously not clear by my statement but I'm not disagreeing with you, I just think the comparison is kind of funny (as in ha-ha funny). It's definitely pretty hippied out and, you don't get much crustier than there. I've never thought of it vis-a-vis h&a is all.

that's interesting, it was def the first thing that came to mind for me

digging how walkable/bikeable this place is. all the major streets have been pretty nice walks. way traffic control than any comparable American city. amazed that bike lanes are even controversial here, maybe there's more traffic outside of the holidays?

transit pretty expensive tho

ps is drake named after the drake hotel

Vice versa.

I went to the same orthodontist as Drake. At this clinic they take your picture when you get your braces off, and apparently they kept his, because someone told me they now have a kind of shrine for him there.

lol @ braces drake

we did the streetcar to lady marmalde today! super good. then walked to the distillery district (dumbo-esque?) then downtown through king, eventually queen, eventually college til we made it back to little portugal. had pizza at this great place on ossington then bar hoped. I like ossington.

I am not ashamed to say that I'm happy you're enjoying Toronto. Considering how often one gets a "so when you moving to NYC?" question.

xpost: Was it at Libretto!?!? (Best Pizza in the city, no question).

yes! my friend really wanted me to try it so it wasn't just a coincidence we had the best pizza in the city.

also I saw a poster advertising a screening of a Jane Jacobs documentary which woulda been the perfect film to catch but I missed the last screening and am leaving tonight. sucks.

also woulda loved to try the bikeshare but I figured it's too cold to make the gf ride a bike.

did you see the spadina expressway plaque?

can you believe they were gonna build a highway there

yeah I did! I can see how that road could have 'made sense' as a freeway tho it would have really destroyed the heart of the city. a few days ago I walked down queen west til I hit the beach and then walked from there to high park and so I got to see the bleakness near the gardiner.

w/r/t that walk, parkdale is pretty interesting in that the gentrification seems to sorta sandwich a non-gentrified area

Yeah, it's been moving westward incredibly quickly, and in an incredibly homogenous fashion. I've been told, though, that because of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, there's an offsite slot for housing for people who go there that's fixed, or something like that, and hence will keep part of "that" "element" there. (Historically, I'm told, the area became kind of shabby partly because so many people coming off drug addictions or who had mental health issues (i.e. the typically unemployable) would naturally set up shop around CAMH. I probably got most of that wrong, though.

In any case, Queen West gentrification is sort of a whole beast unto itself.

most of south parkdale is still p 'non-gentrified' i guess? at least that seemed to be my impression when i was apt hunting. i think part of that is the community housing keeping rents low but idk.

south parkdale? that's me!

i am ashamed i did not notice this thread until just now.

sorry guys.

and yes - me rent is reddonk cheap - with view of the lake!

yah a friend of mine had an apt in one of the buildings on king just after the bend, you could see the lake from her balcony and it was really cheap but p skeezy

I didn't see the king area of parkdale but it makes sense that it would be sketchier. had lunch w/ clemenza at sneaky dee's and then went to greektown (that whole part of town is very astoria-queens-like. sorry for comparing everything to ny) and st lawrence market. that's prob it for our trip cause of the rain and all. we def had fun and my friend who we're staying w/ wants us to come back for some stuff in 2012 so it's not totally unlikely we'll be back. yay toronto.

sorry i missed you i slept until 1:30 and then just lazed and read and ate leftovers all afternoon but im glad you had a good time.

ya no worries, you should hit me up next time you're in ny