Past Post: Ten Years Ago Today — Open Streets
Near the intersection of Bloor and Spadina, on Bloor.... Ten years ago? My lordy.
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Video Clip: The Linda Lindas ― Burning Out
During a visit to YouTube this afternoon a top-row video choice caught my eye: The Linda Lindas ― Burning Out Jimmy Kimmel Live Okay, "my favourite new band" has produced yet another infectious song. Since I don't watch the late-night shows, there was no way I would have known they were scheduled to appear last night. I'm definitely a fan, so much so that I've covered two of their albums on this…
Athot for the Day: The Return of the Youthy
My view from Toronto's beautiful "Annex" neighbourhood.... The students are arriving! They're looking younger and younger; I'm feeling older and older. NOTE: I arrived as a student in 1984. No doubt, someone saw me and thought.... ("What a geek!")
Snip: This Past 30 Days Had Over 200k Website Hits
When I check my website's traffic and statistics most mornings my already fragile ego gets a good burnishing, which serves to tell me that I can do some things right. I possess an innate tendency to sell myself short, but the fact is, as revealed by my most fortunate dinner guests, yours truly can cook and prepare a mighty mean pot of Kraft Dinner (KD). Kidding! Yikes. The Global Village…
RePost: A Lunch Date with a New Canadian in Toronto
This afternoon I popped downtown to meet a friend of mine for one of our lunch catch-ups. The Thai food was great, as was the conversation. My buddy is from the US state of Wyoming, but after getting his PhD in New Mexico, he and his wife decided to move to this great city. Will told me today that he's been living in Toronto for ten years. Time flies. I met him in 2016 when we worked on a contract…
Quote: Tom Hanks on the Greatest Motion Picture of All
"Some people say Casablanca or Citizen Kane. I say Jason and the Argonauts is the greatest film ever made." All the greatest, but, yes!
Picturing: TTC's Finch Station Platform View
Yesterday, late afternoon, I took the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) subway train south from "Finch Station". It had been a while since I last stepped onto that platform. Going downtown for a Saturday evening!... In my case, going home.
Quote: Tom Holden on the Creative Type
“For some reason in our modern, sterile and sometimes harsh world, creativity is something that is frowned upon. Never be ashamed of this talent―it marks you out as different from huge swatches of the population.” True.
Repost: Article Sample — Yukon Crews
With my repost yesterday about my flight experiences on the RCAF CC-130 Hercules transport aircraft, I thought I would stay on course by reposting my research piece, and experiences, on the RCAF Canadair CC-106 Yukon transport aircraft. Enjoy the ride! I did! While I was still a staff member in Toronto's film and television business, I wrote an article about the Canadair CC-106 "Yukon" transport…
RCAF Hercules ― A Flip of a Trip!
With the Government of Canada announcing a conditional sale of 10 retired Royal Canadian Air Force CC-130H Hercules aircraft to Coulson Aviation, a British Columbia-based aerial firefighting company, memories returned, again. It would have been an "H" variant that I flew on.... A "flip" on a Canadian Armed Forces CC-130 Hercules built some of my fondest memories. As a military "dependent", or…