Toboggan: Still Loving You Forever

It's been awhile.

A lot has happened since Toboggan's last post... Michael Jackson died, Tiger Woods has fallen from grace, and- of course- Adam Lambert dropped his creepily covered 'For Your Entertainment' (sorry Adam, but you just can't pull this off). Yes, it seems as if things have been falling apart all around us- that a world without Toboggan is a dark and desolate place- but that's simply not true.

Toledo has a new Hockey team, Winter Wonderland is apparently still on, and Homage keeps producing those awesome Surf Ohio shirts (above). In fact, there's so much good news, Toboggan's Toledo offices have been seriously considering a comeback.

Let's see how much we can squeeze into one post, shall we....

I'm not sure who's involved with this, but looks like Toledo has it's own little Pop Up Shop. All the rage over in England for awhile now, I haven't seen any around these parts, so this is exciting (please correct me if I'm wrong).

The Museum has a Chihuly exhibit, a Graphic Novels exhibit, and an exhibition on children's book illustrations. We should never forget how fortunate we are to have this institution in our town- in fact Toboggan got pulled over last week and definitely tried to sell the cop a Museum membership (this is highly encouraged).

Been digging Fujiyama Mama (below), apparently Ernestine Allen was born in Illinois, but raised by her grandmother right here in Toledo (gotta love that), the song actually charted by Wanda Jackson




BGSU's annual record sale is this Friday, Dec. 11. I will be looking for the TeenWolf soundtrack (do you have any idea how hard that has been to track down?)

...and of course, the biggest news: Toledo Toboggan made a new post. Maybe we should keep our fingers crossed for tomorrow....

Education for Death!

I had no idea, but the BGSU Gish Theater has some amazing film programs. They have Tuesday Night Films at the Gish, The Sunday Matinee Series, and the International Film Series on Thursdays, all of which are absolutely free.

This Sunday will feature a film by Roberto Rossellini titled 'Germany Year Zero'. To go along with the WWII theme, they will also be showing two animated shorts from the period (one of which being a Disney cartoon I got the above screen cap from).

If you're busy Sunday, check out the theater's schedule, there's plenty to choose from in the next couple months.

BGSU- Sucks at Basketball, Great at Art

After a pretty pessimistic article in the Blade yesterday, the BGSU girls basketball team almost pulled-off an impressive upset against No. 16 Notre Dame. But that's alright, because I'm an Irish fan anyway, and there's an even bigger game tomorrow night: the BGSU art department vs. everybody. And I hope they kick your ass.

Tomorrow night (Friday, the 7th) the University hosts ArtsX. Described as, 'the largest collaboration across the arts in a single night at BGSU', the evening is jam packed with things to do and see (or see and do, whichever you prefer).

Whether you like painting, sculpture, music, video, dance, whatever- it's bound to have something for everyone.