[PHOTO] Three photos from Let's Your Fandom Flag Fly, CNE

I went to the Canadian National Exhibition for the first time yesterday evening. It was an amusing outing, though I'm not sure I'd pay $C 18 again.

One of the exhibitions I liked was Let's Your Fandom Flag Fly!, an exhibition of fan art from all kinds of different fandoms, in all kinds of different media. The three below stuck with me.



Vanessa Stefaniuk's postcards of characters from Game of Thrones were effective.



Eric Leis had assembled from Lego a very nice Helm's Deep.



Sean Jensen's recreation in Lego of the iconic final scene from Planet of the Apes is amazing.

[PHOTO] A lobster roll and more at Bakin' Donuts, Summerside

Visiting Summerside on my vacation felt odd. The last time I was in Summerside, Prince Edward Island's second and smaller city in the western portion of the Island, I was 17 and being trained to work for PEI Tourism. Before that, I had scarcely seen Summerside at all.



But, it was the end of the Summerside Lobster Festival, and the Summerside Bakin' Donuts at 48 Water Street was one of the places advertised as offering a lobster roll for sale, so why not? I went with my parents.





The food and coffee were decent. The lobster rolls, with their sides of potato salad and coleslaw, were tasty, and the coffee good. It was pretty much what you'd expect from a decent small-town Maritimes coffee shop.



I found the place most enjoyable for its social environment. The Water Street Bakin' Donuts is part of a chain covering western Prince Edward Island, from Tignish to Kensington. It's a small-town Maritimes coffee shop, and the locals who were in the shop with me and my parents were small-town Maritimes, too. I missed that kind of environment.

[BLOG] Five blog links about the Canadian National Exhibition

• At blogTO, Chris Bateman shared photos of vintage acts at the CNE while Rick McGinnis shared photos of the Exhibition at night.


• Spacing Toronto shared a history of the CNE, coming up to its first ride.


• Transit Toronto described the various bus and streetcar routes that CNE users would likely take, and how they would change.


• Torontoist |shared vintage CNE posters.

[FORUM] What do you do when the world is getting you down?

Broadsides' Caitlin Kelly had a post up asking her readers what they did when the news got them down.

The world is, obviously, filled with beauty and grace and joy, with people who get up every morning and give their best to those around them.

But, really, my dears, this wears me down.

Then what?

Tune out? Become more politically active? Stop caring? Care more? Write a letter to the editor? Blog it? Blog it again…and again…and again…?

Write a check to a charity?
Rant to others on social media?

Or just…not care?

I'd have posted my answer there if I had any idea. I'm hoping you'll do me better, in posting here or there. What do you do?