10 hours left to vote Toronto onto the new Monopoly board!

Last day to vote Toronto onto the new Monopoly board! Last I heard, Toronto had slid to 21st place. :-( To build suspense, the Monopoly people have taken the leaderboard offline, so it's tough to tell whether Toronto's going to make it or not; it needs to be in the top 20.

If Urban Tapestry didn't have tons of FKO stuff to prep for already, I would have loved to write a "Vote Toronto" song. However, in addition to covering some new songs for our concert as well as reviving a few much older songs (it's our 15th anniversary as a group this year, after all!), we'll also be performing two brand-new songs in concert which...er...I haven't finished writing yet.

Allison and Jodi are VERY patient music partners. :-)

Anyway, if you haven't voted today, please do consider casting a vote for Toronto. You can find instructions here. You can still vote for your own city as well but please do vote for Toronto as well.

Or if you don't need instructions, just go directly to the voting page.

Just over 10 hours left to vote, according to the page right now, so I assume this means voting at 6 pm EST tonight.

I got a Facebook message from someone at CBC asking if I'd be willing to be interviewed for tonight's edition of CBC News at Six; I'm assuming she sent it to everyone on the Facebook group devoted to the effort -- though if everyone in that group decides to call her, she's going to be spending a LOT of time on the phone. I gave her my friend Craig's contact info in case she didn't have it already, since he's the one who told me about it in the first place, and has also motivated many other Torontonians.

From a marketing/PR move, I have to applaud Parker Brothers for their ingenuity. Monopoly is generally regarded as a family standard but I suspect many families already have it...this popularity contest to get one's own city onto the new board is free advertising for the game when it comes out.

There's a certain risk, of course; if a city doesn't make it onto the board then they'd probably be less inclined to buy a copy of the new game...but then again many people wouldn't even have considered it before this popularity contest anyway.

Anyway, I'm crossing my fingers....






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