Alien Abduction Festival, Toronto, Mar 20

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 17, 2008 8:28 PM | permalink

Chris, the manager at Toronto's Bakka Books, the venerable science fiction bookstore where I once worked, writes, "A bunch of stores in our section of Queen West are having an Alien Abduction Festival on Thursday March 20th. We're running the 'Build Your Own Spaceship' station; you can make/identify aliens at 3rd Quadrant; Happy Worker will host Tin Foil Hat Tailoring; and Come As You Are [Ed note: woman-owned, sex-positive sex-shop] will teach 'Probology 101'. We've also got some MiBs on tap to search for aliens, and free rides in a UFO. Mostly we're participating just to have fun and promote community, but we'll also be taking donations for the Queen West Fire Fund."

That Queen West Fire Fund is to benefit the businesses and residents who were burned out of an historic stretch of Queen Street last month. Link

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#1 posted by Peter

, March 18, 2008 5:47 AM

I love Bakka. It was one of my favorite, most-frequented stores until it moved away from Yonge. Now it's too far outside of my usual range (since I walk almost everywhere I go regularly) to go to with any regularity.

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#2 posted by djfiander , March 18, 2008 9:30 AM

The plural of "Man in Black" (MiB) is clearly "Men in Black" (MiB), rather than your own "Man in Blacks".

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#3 posted by ill lich , March 18, 2008 11:18 AM

I had a friend who claimed several abductions, a onetime "patient" of Harvard's John E. Mack, he would not at all be amused by this. It was very serious to him, he'd probably compare this festival to "black face minstrel shows."

I'm not saying I agree with him, but I guess I can understand his view, and seeing as I've never been abducted (to my knowledge), I would reserve judgment.

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#4 posted by FAC33 , March 18, 2008 1:30 PM

Call me a space cadet--hadn't realized Bakka had moved back to Queen. I had stopped going there not long after the move up to Yonge, and then I was out of the country for four years.

Are they anything like the old Queen St. Bakka? When they moved up to Yonge, it seemed like half the store and a lot of the ambiance disappeared.

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#5 posted by ookpik , March 19, 2008 12:59 PM

I love the stuff Come As You Are gets involved with. Happy sex store! A small detail: CAYA is not woman-owned so much as worker-owned. They're a worker co-op and last I checked, there was at least one man on staff.