I sent a quick email to the Queen Street location, with a link to the photo, asking for suggestions. About ten minutes later, I received a response from an actual human being named Andria. She told me to bring the boots in to have them assessed for warranty.

I brought my boots to the shop after work this evening, and they replaced them with a brand new pair, under warranty, with no receipt (Andria found a record of my purchase in their database).

Colour me impressed.

My response is almost always, “Of course! Please do! Just call it something else.”

So then, from Sandy Nicholson: a GRTTWaK-inspired night of juvenilia in Charlottetown called The Hilroy Diaries (Facebook event). Note that unlike GRTTWaK, there is a cover charge, but it goes to a not-for-profit called Women’s Network PEI. Here’s the poster:

With Jesse Thorn from The Sound of Young America (runs 32:42)

With Jian Ghomeshi of Q (runs 41:42)

Kinnon made an awesome poster:

If you’re a public radio geek, it’s really worth a listen, if only to hear Jesse try to contain his obvious man-crush on Ira.

On Wednesday night at The Tranzac downtown, a 34-year-old man took to the stage and spewed more than 60 insults and obscenities to a large crowd. They hooted with laughter, gasped at the more taboo terms and broke out into applause when it was all over.

Andrew Jehan’s performance was an extreme example of what audiences might hear at Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids, a free reading series whose name pretty much says it all. This was the eighth installment of a show where people read old diary entries, angsty teen poetry and mystifying grade school assignments to a roomful of strangers.

A big thanks to everyone who came out to GRTTWaK8 at the Tranzac on September 17th. It was a great time.

I have two more Wednesdays at the Tranzac this month, with two very excellent shows:

• September 23: Singer/songwriters Kevin Quain, Patrick Walsh, and Peirson Ross (Facebook event)
• September 30: Japanese popsters The Moist Towelettes (Tokyo) wsg The Sweat (Facebook event)

Hope you can make it out.

You can check out all three animations on DNTO’s YouTube page. The CBC “Entertainment” “Portal” has copies too, but lacks permalinks, so I won’t bother linking there.

Perhaps now I can get a proper night’s sleep.

[YouTube link]