In a sign of the times, this sign directing the audience to Ontario's site on the flu was in the Santa Claus Parade on 15-November-2009
TORONTO, ONTARIO - For those who were not already completely blind to any mention of H1N1, public health authorities tried again in the Santa Claus Parade in Toronto last Sunday. The above sign--in the format normally used to introduce floats--was by itself in the middle of the parade. For a second or so, I was wondering what the "flu float" was going to look like!
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Had there actually been a "flu float," it was likely to be creepy. A girl that appeared to be about six years old on a staircase behind me at the parade yelled out "that's creepy" as the McDonald's float came into view. She wasn't close enough to ask exactly what she found to be creepy about the float, but if here parents were anti-commercial, they had to be proud of that reaction.
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I heard no such reaction when the Disney "Princess and the Frog" float came into view. Disney is making much of the fact that the heroine is African-American and in fact is the first fairy tale hero from the United States (New Orleans, to be exact). However, the well-publicized plot in which she turns into a frog herself after kissing a frog (instead of turning the frog into a prince)--that's creepy! Furthermore, it will disappoint all the unattractive men in the world who can now give up any hope of ever being kissed by an attractive woman, lest she risk becoming equally unattractive.
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The Santa Claus Parade had marching bands from all over Ontario and New York, but no group from Mushaboom, Nova Scotia. Somehow I had managed to not realize that the hit song from Feist was named for the small town. It made a bit more sense to listen to the song with that fact as context.
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If anything about Mushaboom had been mentioned on Friday night's The National newscast from the CBC, it would have been hard to understand the context. Did anyone else notice how the video graphics seemed to be completely disjointed the entire hour?
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Two transformers bound for Ontario Hydro crossed the Humber River in Toronto, Ontario on Canadian Pacific's Streetsville Local on 16-November-2009
Hopefully not ever disjointed were a pair of huge loads bound for Ontario Hydro's facility near the interchange of the 403 and the 407 west of Mississauga, Ontario. After sitting in a local yard for a week, the loads headed out last Monday in a Canadian Pacific train for delivery to their destination, making for an interesting sight as they crossed the Humber River.
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