how we smashed the state and what we did there

Last night David S. and I went to the Trash Palace for Godzilla VS The Cosmic Monster; the print was messed up so they screened the Gamera film Destroy All Planets instead. This was absolutely the best looking print of any Gamera film I've ever seen, that includes DVDs. It was totally sweet.

Today I got up and went out to the Anime North wrapup meeting. Getting there was no problem. Getting back... I got on the 427 figuring if they closed it I could just hop off and take Dundas east, or get down to the Queensway. Well, all the exits got closed and all traffic was diverted to QEW Westbound because the QEW East/Gardiner was closed due to dignitaries arriving at the airport for the G20 and being motorcaded downtown. So I sat in traffic for 45 minutes and watched my gas gauge get lower and lower. Finally I got off at Cawthra, got gas, and sped home. All the way I'd been listening to the news reports of windows being smashed, police cars being burned, you name it.. and I wanted to get down there and take pix! ( Full report and pix behind the jump. )

how not to do it

Riot police detain hundreds of people in pouring rain for four hours at Queen & Spadina - just let the last of them go minutes ago. Not protestors, not rioters, just passersby. Way to go, Integrated Security Unit. You just made the next demonstration one hundred times larger. If we had gone out today to take pictures, that might have been us standing in the rain for 4 hours.