The South Bayview Bulldog

Although it’s only a game and Toronto hasn’t lost the series yet, there is an ocean of foreboding and visions of defeat in the air Sunday morning. Montreal Twitter fans are taking a fiendish delight in the Leaf’s Game Six loss.

Lotto 649 players in Atlantic Canada are being told to check their tickets for Saturday night’s draw. One East Coast lottery player owns the winning ticket for the draw’s $6 million jackpot, while another from the region claimed the the draw’s $1 million guaranteed prize. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on June 2 will be an estimated $5 million.

Okay, call it Silly Saturday. It begins with the utterly giddy governor of West Virginia urging people to get vaccinated because his chubby Bulldog, Baby Dog, wants them too. It’s not Ontario-style but whatever it takes. Also Twitter.

Habs tickets offered at silly prices

Only 2,500 fans permitted

As you’ve heard, some 2,500 fans will be permitted inside the Bell Centre for tonight’s Game Six between the Leafs and the Canadiens. Do you think that might put some pressure on the price of the tickets?

Rolls Royce picnic trunk

Invite the neighbours?

Here’s a Rolls Royce that has a picnic table emerging from its winged trunk. You may be sure the bottles of champagne need to be opened separately.

Friends of George Turrell are asked to come along on Sunday, June 13 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a food donation for Thorncliffe Park. The many users of Leaside Memorial Community Gardens will be present to receive donations. Leaside Hockey Association

New mural by J. Chiale (JimmyChiale.com)

The laneway wall on the east side of Pat’s (formerly Joe’s) Barber Shop has always been an appealing place for taggers. It was painted clean from time to time but now has an elaborate signed graffiti mural by Jimmy Chiale. BIA Facebook

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Yes, we want the Leafs to win their first-round series tonight. No, we don’t want you to flood the streets and catch something.

Will James Bond now come in an Amazon box?

Many may wonder whatever happened to the idea of anti-trust legislation as Amazon announced the purchase of MGM Studios including the James Bond franchise. The CNBC wonks wonder if it isn’t slightly sinister.

All good now that Ron McLean has apologized?

Ron McLean

Ron McLean has apologized for what is being called the “tarp off” remark live on the air. You have to know what that might mean in order to be offended, and some do. CTV

East York’s Penny Oleksiak has dropped in virtually on a young Toronto admirer who hopes to compete in Tokyo this summer.

Toronto is getting a slight splatter of rain as noon approaches this Wednesday. The forecast suggests a mixed-weather weekend. The entertaining Weather Network “Storm Hunter” Mark Robinson comments on the dry May we’ve had as he walks in the Guelph rain this morning.

Caught in an industrial dead-end/OPP

OPP are reporting Wednesday on a 4 a.m. chase and crash on Jane St courtesy of two guys in a Mercedes. Before it was over they whacked a police car pretty good.

Whacked a cruiser/OPP

Update from Jane and Falstaff after officers from #TorontoOPP attempted to stop a vehicle for a Highway Traffic Act violation. pic.twitter.com/RUO6aAOgIN

— OPP Highway Safety Division (@OPP_HSD) May 26, 2021

The Super Flower Blood Moon over Leaside, Davisville, Moore Park and the rest of Midtown was an entrancing sight for anyone on an evening walk Tuesday. It’s a worldwide sequence and these New Zealanders talk about it quite informatively.