A stroll along Queen Street West

The Queen Street West stroll takes in an area with lots of character and it is always fun walking along and seeing the different stores and their sometimes funny advertising (who can forget the camel toe window), ever present graffiti and the occasional chair to relax your weary bones.

At the John Fluevog shoe store you can finally realize that it isn't them, it is you - you're weird.

While not on Queen Street West you can catch a glimpse of the OCAD art school on stilts. The Ontario College of Art and Design building reminds me of the alien space craft in the Tom Cruise movie War of the Worlds. Big alien tentacles will reach down, pick you up and deposit you in an art class.

Active surplus - scrap metal people

I have shopped in Active Surplus on Queen Street West a few times - they have plenty of electronics and other assorted stuff. They always had someone dressed in a monkey suit standing outside the door drawing people in. The have now placed an art installation on the front of the building - scrap metal people climbing the wall.