I first made this installation at Geary and Dufferin in September 2024. It lasted through two winters! I’m taking it apart and putting it back together. My bicycle holds all the supplies, plus trash bag. Stop by and say hello, if you’d like! I’ve been asked to finish this by Saturday. Stay tuned…

Here's what went down on the weekend! open.substack.com/pub/sharikas...

Sports, WTF

They closed Strachan and I couldn’t get through with my bike. What a terrible decision to close this entirely—on every game day? Who decided this was a good idea?!!!

Come see me at Harbourfront for Luminato June 13 & 14 where I'll have decorated fence panels and will be selling creations, incl new TTC route diversion items. sharikasman.substack.com/p/visit-me-t...

I can't get enough of going to Westside Market out of the subway on the way home at whatever time. When does Westside Market close? Never. Can I buy ginger 20mins ago? Okay. I know, the population is different. But still. The prepared food! Blahblahblah! #HelloFromNYC #CallTheMoralityPoliceImIntheUS

Cannabis has never looked so boring

The latest stuff sharikasman.substack.com/p/bloordale-...

Bloordale Beach opened 6 years ago today. Happy birthday to Bloordale Beach!

Got out of the subway and saw this sign and was hoping I would run into the letter A. There was no A! #A

FIFA SCHMIFA

This is tonight! I'm in the Bloordale Beach documentary, and it's screening along with the director's film about Toronto Island. boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/websales/pag...

I asked 3 AI bots what they thought about the answers they each gave to my question: What have I done that you'd never do in a million years? sharikasman.substack.com/p/what-the-b...

The developers of the Bloor-Duff project won an MPAC appeal. Result: Bloordale BIA owed them $200,845 after already spending $157,000. The city denied a repayment plan, forcing cuts to every neighbourhood line item. All for a “vibrant” ‘hood. #TOpoli #Bloordale

Fourteen years after coming across this bike, I met the owner! open.substack.com/pub/sharikas...

They're doing a community consultation without letting the community know they're doing a community consultation.

I’m surprised the CN Tower documentary didn’t mention Tour of the Universe! share.google/f1GUqCXWJxEW...

I asked three chatbots what I've done that they'd never do in a million years. sharikasman.substack.com/p/what-a-cha...

I made a Substack post and here it is. open.substack.com/pub/sharikas...

The Museum of Bad Gifts will be doing a Zoom presentation tomorrow evening for VocalEye, an organization for the blind and low vision community, April 15, 9:30 pm EST. Anyone is welcome to attend. Sign up here: www.vocaleye.ca/events/zoom-...

It took one month and four days for a single greeting card mailed at the post office to get from Toronto to Manhattan—HOW??!?!

A desire line in the exact place where we had a north to south path through Bloordale Beach, and prior to that the exact north to south path through the school parking lot. Some things never change! Bloor to Dufferin Mall! The should’ve just paved it!

Bikeshare van thinks it’s a bikeshare bike, or else why would it be in the bike lane?! #identitycrisis

This sideways map shouldn’t be sideways

The @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social show was a lot of fun! I'm so glad the beach made it in there. Thanks to CT5555 for the Wikipedia entry on Bloordale Beach. Photo by @bananafitz.bsky.social.

Since coming back to Toronto, I've only heard completely bonkers stories about how the city is going to shit.

Don’t you love Toronto’s infinite brown and grey atmosphere.

Car-shaped bike parking in what would normally be a car’s parking spot

I knew palomita in Spanish was popcorn, but I’d never thought about how it also means small pigeon or dove and now I find out it also means checkmark!?

Tomorrow I'll do basketweaving!

Lots of bikeshare stations are closed around Centro in Mexico City today, which was inconvenient for me this morning. Now I find out the closed stations are because of a Shakira concert!?

Bloordale Beach is one of the quirkiest CanCon Wikipedia pages, according to @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social. Thanks to my mom for spotting this in Toronto Life, and for sending photos.

CDMX got so popular, thought I'd try GDL this time. But had enough of GDL, so I made it to my new temporary home in CDMX today by 2 p.m. (goodbye, GDL!) Within 3 hours I ran into a couple I know from Toronto. I've spent 3 months here across 4 trips over the past 11 yrs—never run into anyone before!

I'm lucky to have made it across the city to my new AirBnb in a difficult-to-get, pricey Uber yesterday morning before Uber shut down, before the city shut down. Taxis and Ubers are still not running in Guadalajara. Super quiet here.

Here’s Guadalajara right now from not a news station

Valentine’s Day and Family Day in one weekend? How nauseating!

I've swapped snowbanks and windchills for freight trains honking at every street-level crossing 24/7, a cowbell announcing the garbage truck between 6 and 7 am daily (minus Sunday), a bit of bonkers daytime crime right in front of me, nightly fireworks sounds w visuals absent, and T-shirt weather.

Brunch is only a question, never an answer!

I thought this was the 83 bus stop since it used to be when I was there just 3 weeks ago. The yellow stuff makes it look like a bus stop. Google thinks it’s a bus stop. It looks like a bus stop. It is not a bus stop anymore. I only know this because the bus didn’t stop.

What a show! torontolife.com/culture/the-...

Let me know if there’s anything I should know about! Weird details, little-known facts, unusual west end stuff, things everyone needs to know about…

I embroidered a couple of local (Bloordale/Bloorcourt) characters for this show. You’ll never guess who! The show opens tomorrow.

If everyone claims their winning items from the Bad Gift Auction at the Museum of Bad Gifts, we’ll have raised $370 for the Daily Bread Food Bank. $370 from bad gifts! Imagine that!

Yesterday was definitely the busiest day at the museum.

Is he finally turning on the stoplights at Dupont and future Wallace Emerson CC or just playing with the wires?

I like this post and I’m sharing it. Thanks to Jode Roberts for this!

Last day for the Museum of Bad Gifts!

This weekend is your last chance to see the delightfully whimsical Museum Of Bad Gifts at Northern Contemporary. www.instagram.com/museumofbadg...

Last three days! Come by! 420 Roncesvalles Ave.

I went to the Museum of Bad Gifts and all I got was this lousy T shirt/...