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....

Toboggan Digs

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (above)

NY Times article on Front Inc., and unique facade engineering, that mentions at length the Glass Pavilion

Blogs of Note/Enjoyment: Enjoying Toledo, Shine Pottery, historymike

Vote for the Toledo Harbor Lighthouse on the JELD-WEN website! It'll win new windows and doors!

'Urban Disconnect' at the CAC on the 19th

Be Informed: The Orphan Works Act of 2008 -artists and illustrators don't seem very happy about this