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Don Hood
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Big fan of nature and pop culture. Won't bite.
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Here are the remnants of the Dufferin Grove eviction in 2020.
2020: A homeless encampment in a city park has been cleared and the cost of the measure rings a tree: countless children's shoes, plush toys, trikes and more.
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Leave Her To Heaven~1945
Starring Gene Tierney - BOTD in 1920
A production still shows Gene Tierney in a boat, mid lake. Wearing a white trench coat and large sunglasses, she wears a fierce expression.
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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It seems the long awaited A Team reboot has hit some financing snags.
A black pickup tows a wagon spray painted 'A Team'.
November 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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She smiles and says "I will always love you" #grok
Peggy Cummins as a sideshow sharpshooter in Gun Crazy. With a gun cocked in her left hand, she smiled lazily with the gun in her right pointed directly at the viewer.
November 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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A most welcome Boo! in the neighbourhood this morning.
🧡 #bloorcourt
On a bright October morning, a side street of one of the city's main drags is festooned with ripe pumpkins and a massive 'Boo' sign. #bloorcourt
October 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Name a great film set mostly in the snow

Never Cry Wolf (1983)
The original poster for the 1983 film Never Cry Wolf directed by Carroll Ballard. A man, holding binoculars, stands in a stark arctic landscape dominated by a tempestuous sky.
October 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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The still image montage from Alan J. Paula's The Parallax View.
youtu.be/vhztDt7-QT8
A stark 2 tone Head and shoulders illustration of a man in profile, aimed right. The path of a vibrant red white and blue bullet that has entered his skull thru the eyes is shown. The black cavity traced by its entry suggests a blindfold.
October 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Describe your Bluesky account in a single image
A black and white production still from Tod Browning's Freaks.
October 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Yeesh. Here's an image after the 2021 'cull'.
An unhoused encampment was forcibly from the same public park space in 2021, but they left a record of how rich their culture was: dozens and dozens are child's shoes ring the trunk of a tree.
September 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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This reminds me of the genesis of Randy Newman's Good oLd Boys song, Naked Man:
A screen capture of Randy Newman's inspiration for the song Naked Man. tl:dr a second naked man done it!
August 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Wow, Christie Pits. That's a grotesque move.
A plaque marking a race riot at Christie Pits in 1933.
August 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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I was! Even peeled this poster off some hoarding and decorated my room with it.
Crazy thing, despite all the vaunted acts, I thought Rockpile was the standout.
New Wave style poster promoting the upcoming Heat Wave show at Mosport Park, east of Toronto in the 80s.
August 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Motif.
A black and white Elliot Erwitt photo of luncheon waitress on her break. She's smoking, seated on the leftmost seat of the lunch counter, with an inscrutable on the face.
August 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
I may be in a spot of trouble.
A production still from the BBC series Detectorists. The 2 principals shown appear perplexed.
August 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Laura Dern expressing shock in a still from the TV show Enlightened.
August 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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In honour of the great Randy Newman album, his anecdote about the genesis of the song Naked Man:
In the 2003 remastered version of Good Old Boys, Newman explains that this song is based on a true story as told to him by a friend who was a public defender. A woman had her purse snatched by a naked man running down the street. Police found a naked guy a few blocks away with her purse, but he insisted that he didn't take the purse, but that another naked man handed it to him. The guy's excuse for why he was naked: he was having an affair with his friend's wife, and when his friend came home, he fled out the fire escape and didn't have time to put his clothes on. It didn't hold up in court, and the guy was convicted.
August 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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This vine like plant has some big plans. #firstwetakemanhattan
In a Toronto laneway, a vine like plant has sprouted from the gravel at the base of a wall, grown approx 18" vertically and then arced left for another metre.
August 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Not sure if you have had a chance to read 'Everybody Thought We Were Crazy'? Terrific account of the culture scene in L.A. in the 60s.
Pre Easy Rider especially, there was a wild commingling of old and new Hollywood.
The cover of Mark Rizzo's stellar Brooke Hayward/Dennis Hopper biography.
August 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I'd love to read it, but it's too damn popular in the TPL system! It's been on hold about 6 weeks and I have a long way to go yet. Congrats!
A screen shot showing the hold queue for the book: Bad company : private equity and the death of the American dream by Megan Greenwell
July 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Long shutter speed.
A retro patterned drape billows before an open door.
July 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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One of the little nuances that make a neighbourhood.
#bloorcourt #streetscape
A window cling proudly announcing 'Expert Work' and 'Shoes Dyed'.
July 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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HBD.
Creator of my favourite photo.
A waitress in a restaurant, seated on the left most stool at the bar, smokes a cigarette.
July 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Happy Birthday to the GOAT
Raymond Chandler was BOTD in 1888
A photo of Raymond Chandler's Playback. First edition copy from the late 50s.
July 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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If you see this, post a vampire
A production still of actor Willem Dafoe as Schreck in E. Elias Merhige’s 2000 film “Shadow of the Vampire”, a reimagining of F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu.
July 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Not only shoulda, coulda! Cross pollination a go go in those days:
The vibrant yellow cover of Mark Rozzo's biography, Everyone Thought We Were Crazy, a chronicle of Brooke Hayward and Dennis Hopper in the late 50s-60s art culture scene.
July 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM