{"id":231,"date":"2005-10-06T00:33:41","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T04:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=231"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:54:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:54:52","slug":"go-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/10\/06\/go-leafs\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infiltration.org\/images\/hb-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Y and B\" align=\"right\"\/>On this last of the hot and sticky evenings I was riding down Yonge to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eye.net\/eye\/issue\/issue_10.06.05\/city\/ymca.html\">YMCA<\/a>, thinking it was unusually quiet. I had the streets to myself &#8212; or at least it seemed that way. Even a slight reduction in traffic makes this city seem empty(er). It had been a frustrating day of bike riding. I yelled at a woman in a Cabriolet doing a U turn in the middle of King St. today. I called her a menace, and she heard me. It felt good to stay on message in times of stress, and it was nice to have quiet streets later on. Then when I hit Yonge and Bloor I noticed the big TV above City Optical (southeast corner) was showing the Leafs&#8217; opening game. That explained the calm city &#8212; everybody was watching the game somewhere. At the intersection though, people were standing around on the street watching the jumbo TV. It was good &#8212; these Jumbo TVs are also a menace, so it&#8217;s striking to see something good on them, something that provides a communal experience, something local and something Torontonian. Yonge and Bloor should be our celebrated cross roads, but it&#8217;s mostly dreadful. Only Stollery&#8217;s on the southwest corner, with their lovely green neon sign, provides some sophisticated relief from the horrors of the CIBC and Bay Towers. I stood on this corner, in a bit of a daze, after work on 9\/11 and watched this screen, with a hundred or so other people, the silent display of lower Manhattan still enveloped by dust, some eight hours after the initial attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The TVs at Dundas Square and other places are not local, and they take our minds to some generic shopping experience located somewhere between Nowhere and Wal-Mart. It&#8217;s why I think the square is our least Torontonian of spaces. It shouldn&#8217;t be that way, and the few times the space is taken over for a local celebration, even if it&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacing.ca\/flaneur02.htm\">near-vulgar spectacle<\/a>, it makes the square ours, if only for a little bit. I don&#8217;t know who won the game, but at the risk of overstating the whole thing, I figure we won Yonge and Bloor back for a little bit tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this last of the hot and sticky evenings I was riding down Yonge to the YMCA, thinking it was unusually quiet. I had the streets to myself &#8212; or at least it seemed that way. Even a slight reduction in traffic makes this city seem empty(er). 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