You have heard, no doubt, of this morning's massive fire on Queen Street West between Bathurst and Portland on the south side (there's video galore attached to this CTV.ca story).

30 people lost their homes and seven businesses have been wiped out.

While I'm sorry for everyone's loss, my personal connections was with Suspect Video.

The loss of Suspect means this city's greatest treasure trove of Takashi Miike movies and other Japanese and Korean fare is now a glop of melted plastic on a charred floor.

Suspect was defiant and uncompromising about its misfit fare. I liked being in there because it was so anti-Blockbuster. A cathedral of the unfettered human imagination, if you will.

Suspect would have gone broke in suburbia. There just aren't enought people out there who appreciate the ouvre of auteurs like Park Chan-Yook or Max Baer.

And now, with its destruction, west downtown Toronto has become incrementally more suburban (just wait until Home Depot builds a big box store just east of the fire site).

Here's hoping Suspect and the other businesses rebuild quickly and help keep downtown T.O. urban.