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Today we did go to Orchard Home Farm, but the Gravenstein apples won't be ripe for another ten days. We did get some Ginger Golds. Baked white bread. Dinner was corn on the cob, which we bought at Gillespie's near Orchard Home Farm. Sweet! Went to another classroom films show at the Trash Palace. I bought my ticket through a Meetup group. (The place was sold out!)
"Two words: Get over it!"-- Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Got up early because we were going to Orchard Home Farm. But Mother didn't feel like it, so we decided to go tomorrow. I went back to bed, and stayed there six hours! Dinner was McDonald's. Saw the DVD of the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 version of Tormented .
Chief Wiggum (punishing some childen): "Let this be a lesson to you: kids never learn!"-- The Simpsons Dreamed of forgetting that my Ph.D. thesis had passed; sunny weather changing to rain really quickly. Went shopping. Went to the Loblaw's superstore near St. Clair & Bathurst to inquire about renting a room for the Musical Run-Through Meetup. Then I went to Wychwood Library and borrowed the…
"It looks quiet." "Like a graveyard" -- Attack! On a group of German POWs: "The mean one's the captain. Just like in any army"-- ibid. Dreamed of a movie about the destruction of a bridge off the northern coast of Jutland in Denmark, with Angelina playing a Nazi in jodhpurs and riding boots. Dinner was curried shrimp. Saw the DVD of Robert Aldrich's Attack! It's one of the better 1950s war movies,…
Dreamed of asking how tall you had to be, to be a general in the army. Went to Evgenia's apartment for an Asperger's Meetup, but there was nobody there. My Metropass for August got lost in the mail. Today I finally got around to going to Davisville station, where they gave me a replacement. Dinner was linguini pesto (which I cooked). I was going to participate in a Ticket to Ride tournament at…
"Is it being unable to see that makes you weary of life?" "No, being able to hear." -- Kung Fu Marge: "I never realized history was so filthy!"-- The Simpsons Went to a Games Meetup at the Yellow Griffin. I played Kill Mister Lucky (sort of a prequel to Clue) and Guillotine (where I tied for first). On the way home, I travelled on one of the new subway trains that aren't divided into cars. When…
"Talk to the wind, Chinaman!"-- Kung Fu Homer: "They did it that way because they're stupid! That's why everybody does everything"-- The Simpsons Went to an Asperger's Meetup at the Tim Horton's east of Yonge & Bloor. They talked about the summer autism retreat a couple of them went to. (Should I go next year?) [I didn't.] Dinner was tortellini.
Baked white bread, but it came out funny. (Why?) Yesterday I had a big headache. Maybe it came from switching to caffeine-free Pepsi. Dinner was linguini primavera. Went to Mary's games night. (I played Say Anything and Balderdash.)
On a bald prospective husband: "You want hair? Marry a monkey!"-- Fiddler on the Roof Dreamed of groups of young people sailing around the world at the same time as part of a big project; finding out that years ago someone published a paper using my research, and not caring. Went shopping. Dinner was ham. Saw Norman Jewison's movie of Fiddler on the Roof (for the fourth time) with the Toronto…
"What do you want from me? My heart? my blood? my soul?" "Your absence!" -- The Pick-Up Artist Yesterday I saw the DVD of Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus . I liked Marianne Faithfull's "Something Better." (I don't think I'd ever heard "Jumpin' Jack Flash" before!) Dreamed of waking up early in the morning at our old home in Sackville, N.B. Dinner was steak. Saw the DVD of James Toback's The…
Yesterday we saw the DVD of Blue Valentine . A Cassavetes-style domestic drama, very depressing. I've started translating another of my Spanish-language Mortadelo y Filemon comic books. This one's title is "Armas con Bicho," which translates as "critter weapons"! Dinner was corn. I was going to see a documentary at the Projection Booth, about a veteran New York Times fashion photographer. But…
Elisha Cook Jr. (pulling a knife out): "The moral is, don't hire detectives!"-- Born to Kill Dinner was tortellini. Saw the DVD of Robert Wise's Born to Kill , a classic sexy film noir. Then we saw the DVD of the TV play Days of Wine and Roses .
"I'm not rapey enough for you"-- Weeds Dreamed of travelling in southern Cape Breton; climbing the highest local peak, with a view for miles around; visiting a notorious Russian; writing on a wall; the movie Untamed Heart . Baked multigrain bread. Dinner was steak. Picked up a couple of bonds at Scotiabank.
Went shopping. Dreamed of recalling Father saying he didn't care for Steve McQueen (which he really did say). Dinner was spaghetti. Saw the cinemacast of Franco Zeffirelli's Met production of Puccini's opera Turandot at the Sheppard Grande with the Classical Music Meetup group. The first two acts are pretty good, but it gets masochistic in the third. ("Pain is sweetness to me...")
"He skeeves people off, like midgets"-- Weeds Dreamed of trying to remember what town I was born in. (It was Sackville, N.B.) Dinner was salmon. Saw the DVD of Rod Serling's 1957 TV play The Comedian . Mickey Rooney was disturbingly well-cast as the eponymous loud-mouthed bully!
