September 20, 2011

"Wonderful news, Homer!"

"Does it involve pies?"

--The Simpsons

Lou Grant (watching TV): "Is there anything real on?  Like a western?"

--The Mary Tyler Moore Show

    Dreamed of driving toward a hellish-looking Chinese industrial area at night; a real-life version of the Acme freezer on Wile E. Coyote's back which ground ice cubes and sprayed them forth as snow for him to ski on.

    Went to St. Mike's for another appointment with Dr. Scholzberg the haematologist.  There was lots of waiting and I had a book, but my cold has me so worn out that I didn't feel like reading!

    Went to Tilley's and got a new spring-autumn hat.

    Dinner was pork roast.

September 19, 2011

"I don't want to marry her, she's my friend!"--The Lion King

    Dreamed of waking up in our old home in Sackville, N.B., and realizing I was an intruder.

    I've started playing the online Zynga game Adventure World.  It's pretty easy so far.

    Dinner was McDonald's.

    Saw Disney's The Lion King (for the first time) at the Yonge & Dundas, in 3-D.  It's pretty good, an efficient story handsomely drawn and well voiced.

    Finally activated my new Visa card. (It was misplaced earlier, but we managed to find it.)

September 18, 2011

"What do you want?"

"I want nothing!"

"Which is precisely what you have."

--Tom and Viv

    Dreamed of telling someone living in the 1930s that W.H. Auden would call this period "a lowdown, dishonest decade"; the movie Peggy Sue Got Married.

    Father has a cold and now Moira and I have caught it! (Like in Contagion, which I saw yesterday.) I was going to attend a Games Meetup but wasn't up to it.

    Dinner was KFC.

    Saw the DVD of Tom and Viv.  T.S. Eliot (a miscast Willem Dafoe) came across as a cold fish.

September 17, 2011

    Went to another Heritage Walk, around the University of Toronto campus with an emphasis on astronomy. (At the start we were near a noisy football game in Varsity Stadium.)

    Dinner was linguini primavera.

    Went to a Karaoke Meetup at Twister.  I got brave enough to sing Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin' On"!

September 16, 2011

G-man to blogger: "If I could throw your computer in jail, I would"--Contagion

"I can handle other people; it's me I'm worried about"--Murder One

    Dreamed of trying to bicycle home from Cape Breton.

    Baked raisin bread.

    Got some literature at the NDP campaign office and distributed it in my poll division.

    Dinner was butter chicken (using sauce we found in the supermarket).

    Saw Steven Soderbergh's Contagion at the Yonge & Dundas. (A couple next to me talked too much.) Fairly predictable middlebrow fare, though with intelligent touches.  Jude Law is cool.

September 15, 2011

"I understand you."

"No, you don't.  And don't patronize me!"

--Murder One

    Visited my shrink Dr. Hassan.  He's written a book titled The Little Grammarian!

    Dinner was roast chicken.

September 14, 2001

    I've started reading the food issue of Lapham's Quarterly.

    Tried to find the Ontario Disability Support Payments office, but I was looking on Lawrence Avenue when it was on Sheppard Avenue!

    Dinner was African stew (with kale from our garden!).