Monday, August 20, 2007

There's no place like this place

I can't say I was a close friend of Mr. Mirvish, but somehow I was saddened to hear of his passing last month. So flashy, so garish, so original, so uniquely himself. And in being himself became so much a part of Toronto. Goodbye, Honest Ed.

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SB said...
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SB said...

I never heard about this. One of my favourite memories of Honest Ed's...my friend Steve took me up in a little plane and we circled over downtown Toronto and from above you could really see just how god damn (am I allowed to write that on a churchie's blog?) bright the place was...