Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

• Sugar & Spice

• Diary of a Serial Killer movie download Macross psp

The good people at Anansi featured me as their Anansi reader of the month. If you’re still looking for summer reading may I recommend that you pick up a book from one of Canada’s best publishers. Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game White Oleander dvdrip

Player 5150 video The Stepfather full movie is now in paperback and won the Dublin IMPACs prize.

Mariko and Jillian Tamaki’s Skim (which is actually published by Anansi’s sister publishing house Groundwood) is a gorgeous graphic novel about teenage love/angst, fitting in, growing up goth. Exquisitely illustrated by Jillian Tamaki.

September Dawn movie And if you must be serious, pick up the book I mentioned at some length in my e-mail interview, Alberto Manguel’s Massey Lecture The City of Words

• The Godfather: Part II release

.

I’m starting a recurring feature on this here blog excerpting representations of Toronto in literature. I’ve realized that in the last few years I’ve read quite a few books set in my adopted hometown and thought it might be interesting to show you how these fine writers have chosen to represent Hogtown.

I admit the idea was blatantly borrowed/ripped off from Dan Hill’s ridiculously smart City of Sound blog.

Without further ado. The first installment.

From In the Skin of a Lion Psycho move download Unlawful Entry dvd Batman Returns film

Inside I’m Dancing dvdrip by Michael Ondaatje:

On the Bloor Viaduct:

Beautiful Joe video

The Air I Breathe

The bridge goes up in a dream. It will link the east end with the centre of the city. It will carry traffic, water and electricity across the Don Valley. It will carry trains that have not been invented yet.

Night and day. Fall light. Snow light. They are always working — horses and wagons and men arriving for work on the Danforth side at the far end of the valley.

Little Manhattan film

• The Number One Girl video

Caesar and Cleopatra download

There are over 4,000 photographs from various angles of the bridge in its time-lapse evolution. The piers sink into bedrock fifty feet below the surface through clay and shale and quicksand — 45,000 cubic yards of earth are excavated. The network of scaffolding stretches up.

This cover from the Penguin’s Great Ideas series is one of the smartest designs I’ve seen in a while (Click on book jacket for a full size version). It’s for Walter Benjamin’s essay “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” So nerdy, it’s great.

In other awesome book cover news, Boing Boing points to the Shepard Fairey Orwell book jackets (also for Penguin) . Fairey is the guy best known for the Obey campaign and also the string of striking Obama posters which have knocked people’s socks off.

I also want to point out to the Premiere de Couverture blog See Arnold Run movie download

Star Trek: The Motion Picture movie

The Heartbreak Kid film The French Connection movie

• Stiletto dvd

(don’t worry folks, he blogs in English), a snazzy book cover blog out of Montreal. Well met, sir. More posts please!

A boy’s mind turns to… food?

To be specific, picnic foods. I live in a downtown condo, so unfortunately I have no backyard to speak off. All the more reason to go for picnics.

download Sugar & Spice

Thankfully, the ever useful Mark Bittman has compiled a list of 101 picnic recipes that take 20-minutes or less. Better get out the blanket, basket and bike. We’re going a-picnicking.