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Links, etc, Roundup
Since I can't think of anything useful about the state of the world. I will try phoning the office of Foreign Affairs tomorrow as suggested below. I hate phone calls, but supposedly they get more attention than email.
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Friday
I really needed something fun, and I'd found out from a friend a couple of days ago that the retro dresses and accessories shop where she works (Doll Factory by Damzels) was having a holiday party, so we went up Roncesvalles. Got off the streetcar just as things got weird: a middle-age didn't man was yelling "stop following me, you pedophile!" at a ( Read more... ) -
Duae tabulae rasae in quibus nihil scriptum est
We've been watching Some Laurel & Hardy shorts recently, in between other movies. Some I'd seen before, some I can't recall if I'd seen them or only seen stills. Towed in a Hole is my favourite of the latter. I suspect the title is one of Stan's in-jokes for the British viewers ( Read more... ) -
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Can't tell I forgot I'm sick sick or if it's just the weather. ( Read more... ) -
They Also Serve That Make the Coffee and Stuff the Envelopes
Andrew's watching The Incredibles, still one of the best adaptations of Watchmen. It's been a few years since I saw it, and I find myself worrying about who's going to help people navigate insurance-company bureaucracies once Mr. Incredible goes back to being a superhero ( Read more... ) -
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Ordered In Chinese food and watched Lang's Die Nibelungen, which is what I imagine Iris Whitcomb's movies in Experimental Film would have looked like, except with a bigger budget:
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The Pretty Good Day
Took Andrew downtown to meet up briefly with leave_harmony, who was in town for a meet-and-greet with pro wrestler Shinsuke Nakamura.
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In a spate of trying to cheer myself up while I'm unemployed, the world is going to hell in a handbasket, and I can't think of anything actually useful to do, I've been somewhat domestic the past week: I managed to get five meals, including soup, out of a rotisserie chicken; I attempted to make cookies (they're not that good, but Andrew seems to ( Read more... ) -
I would give so much if I could only lighten that sorrow for you a little
Yesterday, the father of a friend of mine woke up to a Remembrance Day program on CBC Radio. They were reading letters written by soldiers in the First and Second World Wars.
One letter had been written in January 1945 by an unnamed officer to the fiancee of one Norlin Crawford, who had been killed in Italy some four months earlier ( Read more... ) -
Everybody Knows
Last night I posted on Facebook that I was not bothered by Leonard Cohen's death so much as by his living just long enough to see the election results ( Read more... )
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