YouTube Find: David Sides

I found a piano cover of my favourite (non-Shatner) karaoke song (Party Like a Rock star). The pianist is David Sides, and he has a lot of cool piano covers of popular songs.

Improv Everywhere

I like making people uncomfortable, causing scenes and pretending I am able to create performance art. Thus I love Improv Everywhere and their mass of YouTube videos in which they pull off quirky acts of mass participation in public places. One event had a group of 200 or so holding in the same position for 5 minutes in Grand Central Station. Another event was an impromptu seeming musical in a food court.

A local comedy/improv group worked on a similar project involving folks listening to directions and going through a series of actions through mp3 player headphones. I missed the event, but aim to participate in a future improv experience.

Ivan Court uses public private partnership

According to 94 FM News,

• "The paperwork is flowing at the Planning Department in city hall -- so much so -- Mayor Ivan Court says an outside firm has been hired to help process the growing number of development applications."

Hopefully no one lets the mayor or his brother know that this is a public private partnership.

Irving Media Monopoly

The hip people in town love telling up that Irving has a monopoly on local media and thus they are evil.

They could be evil, but who are "they."

It has been reported in the national media that succession planning and internal conflict are leading to a break up of Irving assets.

Te fact that one guy who is an Irving owning a newspaper does NOT indicate that the newspaper is creating biased coverage of all projects being done by guys named Irving.