east vs west...hoohah
The gimmick in this week's issue of Now is a cover story pitting Toronto's east end versus its west side in a battle of which sucks the least. Of the defences provided, I found Joshua Errett's weigh-in about the west's superiority was obnoxious in its dismissal of a section of the city he finds akin to either a retirement community or "Maoist China," where dullards have lives nowhere near as exciting as his. So the east doesn't have the cultural landmarks that stand west of Yonge, and it's inevitable some people who reside beyond the Don are boring. Bleh. I suspect Errett was going for a tongue-in-cheek treatment that came off as annoying instead of funny. Part of my annoyance may stem from not being a fan of his mean-spirited-to-look-cool-and-or-contrarian writing persona. Case in point: I felt he dropped the ball when he claimed the east "lacks that ability to reinvent itself. It is staid, which ultimately spells boring." Funny—I...