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Hold Still

A novel in progress by David Macfarlane
So much did I crave motion while posing, I used to pass the time trying to feel a movement under my skin not visible to the artist studying me so intently.
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Toronto History Project

The Living City: an on-line compendium, digital archive, virtual museum, and inter-active history that tells Toronto's stories to its citizens, new arrivals, visitors, and to the world. David Macfarlane's What Will Be Has Always Been: An Illustrated History of Toronto plays an integral role in this innovative portal.
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Toronto Suite

A musical portrait of the city of Toronto, in association with the Via Salzburg Chamber Ensemble. Created and Produced by David Macfarlane.
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Situation Normal

Columns Old, Columns New
The date approaches for my annual rant about people who talk during movies. But even if the great weight of journalistic tradition did not impose this obligation, the idiots who, with increasing regularity, sit behind me, make it necessary that I speak out.
- From the newspaper column, "Will You Please Shut-up Please"
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Between

Portraits of Crossdressers
Photographs by Nigel Dickson, Text by David Macfarlane
It's a strange men's group. We don't go out in the woods and beat drums or anything. But it's a men's group.
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