November 12, 2010

Homer's brain (to Homer): "You don't want to know what I think.  Just look sad and say 'D'oh!'"--The Simpsons

Sideshow Bob: "I know I don't deserve an opportunity, but as an American, aren't I entitled to one?"--ibid.

    Last night I had dinner at Tucker's Marketplace with the Uptown Meetup.

    Dreamed of an Allied submarine crew in Newfoundland during World War II seeking a wrecked sub; a large-scale David Lean-type epic movie production heading for disaster.

    Since Moira is in Kingston, the parents and I had dinner at the Mandarin Restaurant.

    I now have a virtual wife in the online game Frontierville!  I've named her Gracie, nee Reynolds.

November 10, 2010

    Dreamed of the Longfellow poem "The Village Blacksmith"; Victor Herbert's Babes in Toyland song "I Can't Do the Sum."

    Baked cheese bread.

    Dinner was a cauliflower & cheese recipe Moira made, along with basmati rice.

    Went to the Games Meetup.  I played The Amazeing Labyrinth, the American version of Ticket to Ride (which I always seem to get one ticket too many!), and a new car game called Turn the Tide.

November 9, 2010

    Dreamed of a British comic annual story about a Robin Hood-like outlaw hero with a treehouse lair.

    Went shopping.

    Dinner was fettucine pesto (which I cooked).

    At opera rehearsal I lent the Die Fledermaus DVD to Barbara so she could lend it to David Roche.  Poor Giuseppe got laryngitis!

November 8, 2010

    We took the big coffee table and a whole lot of old clothes to the Salvation Army.

    Headache!

    Dinner was the rest of the Chinese food, etc.

    At choir practice we went through the Lucia di Lamermoor dress rehearsal.  For the first time, Sinead was singing the title role with us.  I also folded some of the concert programs.

November 7, 2010

"You're going through menopause.  It's affecting your sense of smell."

"I smell with my nose, not with my coochie!"

--Weeds

On an Indian restaurant: "The food is to die for, be reincarnated and die for again!"--ibid.

    Went to an Aspergers Meetup at The Second Cup on the York University campus.  It's the first time I've gone there in years! (There's a new parking building.) [I got a Ph.D. at York.]

    Dinner was Chinese food.

    Saw the DVD of the first episode of Founding Brothers, a History Channel documentary series about crises in the first years of the American republic.

November 6, 2010

"I pretended I was a bird; now I'm pretending I'm me"--Birdy

"Celia...  I had no idea you read books!"--Weeds

    Dreamed of eating huge blueberries which resembled miniature earth globes from a plant near our old house in Sackville, N.B.; thinking "The world was my oyster."

    Went to the Royal Winter Fair.  I was going to join a Meetup group but I couldn't find the others. (The organizer couldn't make it.)

    Finished Birdy.  I should see the movie again. [I haven't.]

    Dinner was sausage and mashed potatoes.

    Saw the DVD of the National Film Board documentary Louisbourg Under Siege.

    I also saw the DVD of the first episodes of Weeds.  It's a funny show, especially the Elizabeth Perkins character.

November 5, 2010

"There's practically nothing smells or feels so comforting as deep earth when you're scared.  Now wonder men lived in caves"--Birdy

"Okeydokey, Doggie Daddy!"--True Romance

"I love her!"

"You stuck your penis into her.  That's not the same as love, believe me!"--Weeds

    Dreamed of the comic strip Modesty Blaise; comedienne Jane Curtin; packing everything before leaving town; the TV show Twin Peaks.

    Dinner was the rest of the meat loaf.

    Went to a Movie Meetup.  We met at the Tim Horton's near North York Centre and Sean took us to the media room in his apartment building. (They even have some cinema-type seats there!) We saw the Quentin Tarantino-Tony Scott production True Romance (me for the third time).  It's fun despite some disturbing violence.