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Today's Daily Shirt is a sort of nod in the general direction of a yearly event that brings much attention - and, YAY! Celebrities - to the Shirtmaster's hometown of Toronto, Canada: The Toronto International Film Festival.
What was once just another small-time film fest from a city with a permanant inferiority complex, has, in truth, grown into a seriously big-time event that draws film folk from all over the gosh-darn place to this city for 10 days or so to clog up our streets, extend the length of our line-ups and all sorts of delightful other side effects that naturally come with an infusion of carbon-based bipeds. Sure it brings in money, but real economists understand that money is a means, not an end itself.
And while today's Shirtological transformation doesn't perhaps know much about economics, he is someone who knows alot about film. Alot. And not just the ones you go home with in a brown paper bag. Though maybe those ones too; I dunno. But, what I do know (and by 'know,' I mean 'made up just now'), is that today's Daily Shirt has seen 3,639,184 movies in his lifetime.
For those of you who are new to our alphanumeric system, that's a bunch of movies. Assuming an avarage length of 90 minutes per movie, (and remembering that there are 525,600 minutes in a year) that means he's at least 623 years old right now. And that's not even counting bathroom breaks.
Now that's dedication.
What was once just another small-time film fest from a city with a permanant inferiority complex, has, in truth, grown into a seriously big-time event that draws film folk from all over the gosh-darn place to this city for 10 days or so to clog up our streets, extend the length of our line-ups and all sorts of delightful other side effects that naturally come with an infusion of carbon-based bipeds. Sure it brings in money, but real economists understand that money is a means, not an end itself.
And while today's Shirtological transformation doesn't perhaps know much about economics, he is someone who knows alot about film. Alot. And not just the ones you go home with in a brown paper bag. Though maybe those ones too; I dunno. But, what I do know (and by 'know,' I mean 'made up just now'), is that today's Daily Shirt has seen 3,639,184 movies in his lifetime.
For those of you who are new to our alphanumeric system, that's a bunch of movies. Assuming an avarage length of 90 minutes per movie, (and remembering that there are 525,600 minutes in a year) that means he's at least 623 years old right now. And that's not even counting bathroom breaks.
Now that's dedication.
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