{"id":2447,"date":"2014-10-14T08:46:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T15:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2014-10-14T08:46:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T15:46:42","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e59-walk-dont-brunch-with-shawn-micallef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2447","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E59: Walk, Don&#8217;t Brunch with Shawn Micallef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2449\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ShawnMicallef2012RR.jpg\" alt=\"SONY DSC\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ShawnMicallef2012RR.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ShawnMicallef2012RR-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In Toronto&#8217;s Church-Wellesley Village, Colin Marshall talks to Shawn Micallef, editor and co-owner of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\"><em>Spacing<\/em><\/a> magazine,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/authors.micallef_shawn.html\"><em>Toronto Star<\/em><\/a> columnist, and author of such books as\u00a0<em>Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto<\/em> and\u00a0<em>The Trouble with<\/em> <em>Brunch<\/em>. They discuss his first &#8220;long, deliberate&#8221; walk in Toronto, which happened by accident; what, exactly, caused this trouble with brunch; his youth in Windsor and his discovery of the middle class in Toronto, which brunches routinely; the death threats his anti-brunch stance has drawn; the difficulty of knowing what class you fit into in the 21st century; choosing flights over children; how Oz-like Toronto looked from back in Windsor; those who stayed behind for the &#8220;good money,&#8221; and what potential they may not have realized as a result; how he began &#8220;unpeeling the layers&#8221; of Toronto, and how he discovered that infinite peelability defines a great city; the &#8220;magical lightness&#8221; he discovered upon leaving his car at home; how Toronto doesn&#8217;t quite know what it has, thinking of itself as a midwestern city more along the lines of Indianapolis; how he developed his obsession with Los Angeles (and how Toronto&#8217;s 401 freeway surpassed any of Los Angeles&#8217; for congestion); why Torontonians\u00a0insist upon Toronto&#8217;s and &#8220;do not own their Toronto-ness&#8221;; Toronto and Los Angeles as cities without stories\u00a0written in stone, because their people write them even now; the ten-year project behind\u00a0<em>Stroll<\/em>; why he finds strip malls the most interesting places in the city, and what drove &#8220;actual multiculturalism&#8221; out to them; Rob Ford as the &#8220;kick in the ass&#8221; Toronto may have needed; what you learn when you explore a city at walking speed; and his personal\u00a0mission to get to know his hometown again, not by car, but on foot.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Download the interview\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E59_Shawn_Micallef.output.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Toronto&#8217;s Church-Wellesley Village, Colin Marshall talks to Shawn Micallef, editor and co-owner of\u00a0Spacing magazine,\u00a0Toronto Star columnist, and author of such books as\u00a0Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto and\u00a0The Trouble with Brunch. They discuss his first &#8220;long, deliberate&#8221; walk in Toronto, which happened by accident; what, exactly, caused this trouble with brunch; his youth in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture","category-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}