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… traffic to her blog is the highest it ever has been in one day – 42 uniques at 4:40pm. (note: the final total was 50).

may 1 2009

Look what I just signed up for: Charlie’s Burgers – The Anti-Restaurant.

You send them an email, answer a few questions they email back, and then wait.  You don’t know where, when, who is cooking what or with whom you’ll be eating.  They’ll contact you one day with the necessary information and tada, you’re in.  Neat eh, so spy-like.

Hopefully I didn’t tank my chances by admitting this: I’ll try anything, and if you can get me to eat fruit well, that’s an accomplishment since that has happened about 7 times in my whole life.

The event venue.  It was built in 1894 by the Massey family, as in the tractor people.  I know, eh!

Probably the best part are the seats:

You’re able to actually sprawl out while enjoying a show, and it kinda scares you when it first happens because you aren’t expecting a theatre seat to tilt.  

If ever you go aim to get Row I, Seat 26, regarded as the best seat in the house.  It’s at the edge of the incline so your view in front is unobstructed, and far enough back so you can soak up the whole stage without moving your neck.

Meet Rannie aka @PhotoJunkie.  He’s won 3 Bloggies for “Best Canadian Blog” and, I love this part, because he kept winning the rules were changed that once a blog wins three times they are now in the ‘Hall of Fame’ and can no longer win.

 
We doubled down: 

– he’s in a competition to win a Nissan Hypercube – Vote Now Here!  He’s been shooting a series of panoramas around Toronto for the contest and I had suggested via Twitter that he shoot one of my favourite places in Toronto, the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant.  So we met there and my head is now in the panorama.

– I invited him into the studio for a chat about what it takes to be a successful blogger (and forgot to clean the camera lens, yaaa).  He had excellent advice, the stuff that stuck in my head most being:

– be consistent
– be topical
– be timely
– the first 100 visitors/day are the hardest
– and, “Keri, you have to have this video we’re making done by May 5th”.  

Okay dude, let’s see if I can.  Thanks for taking the time, and good luck winning a Cube.

Top is a Dr. Seuss-ish walkway being built, and bottom is a landmark I know you know.  

I may have come up with a sick idea while strolling around tonight, a film project to be worked on throughout the summer and shot around August.  I’m ruminating.