Saturday, i didn't do much of anything, just journal stuff, saw Burn After Reading again.

On Sunday, i went into the city for this year's Word On The Street (annual one-day national book and magazine family festival celebrating literacy and the written arts, held in five cities simultaneously on the last Sunday in September - Vancouver, Calgary, Kitchener, Toronto and Halifax).

At the north entrance, at Avenue Rd and Bloor, looking down Queen's Park Crescent (that's the ROM behind the trees).

Ha ha, didn't see that scowling face when i took the photo.

The Labyrinth is everywhere - they come to our school, they're at Fanexpo, OIAF 0 they even come to our school.

How often do you hear a pan flute?

I walked down the west side first - i was impressed the Ministry had a booth there.

It starts at 11, so it wasn't long until lunch (and i had an event at 12:30), so i made it to the food right away, at the southend, just behind the legislature building. I like the effort they make to have international food. You don't often see Kashmiri BBQ, do you?

Uh, yes, i think i would like to buy some of your food.

A wide shot of the food concessions.

As a matter of fact, i didn't get Thai food, i had perogies, roast chicken and salad. The City TV stage had performers.

Dammit, that would've been a great shot in focus.

Then i went to the talk From Picture Books to Graphic Novels and Back Again - "authors Jeremy Tankard (Grumpy Bird, Me Hungry!), Matt Hammill (Sir Reginald’s Logbook) and Steven Murray (National Post) talk about the ins and outs of creating picture books and how it compares to creating graphic novels."

I decided i didn't have enough cash with me, and decided walk south along University in hopes of finding my bank. This is a statue of Sir John Graves Simcoe, first governor of what become Ontario, and founder of the British settlement of what became Toronto.

The Provincial Legislature Building (the WOTS is on the other side).

The Firefighters memorial.

Apparently a comic book store needs its own car - why it's on University in the Hospital district, who knows?

A homeless person who was standing in an odd pose (and he wasn't a busker). When i got down to Elm, i reaized i was almost at Dundas, and had forgotten College Street was just at the bottom of Queen's Park - d'oh!

For Joan.

Coming back up the east side of Queen's Park.The problem with getting Previews and ordering comics through my local shop is that i really don't see anything new at these events.

Back where i started - in the end, i didnt buy anything, but it was still a good day.

Uh, okay...

I like the look of the man on the left - she certainly looks distinctive from this angle (i never did see her face).