July 11, 2011

"I make dresses for women who really wear them!"--Valentino

    Dreamed of being about to get on a cruise ship in Moncton, where we'd suffer amnesia and be given new identities; playing a Farmville-like computer game where one area turned out to produce poisonous food.

    Dinner was Swiss Chalet takeout rotisserie.

    Went to a screening of the fashion documentary Valentino:  The Last Emperor at Studio 561 near Bathurst station, as part of an Art Meetup. (Jeanne Beker, of the fashion show FTV, appeared briefly.)

    Afterward I went to Book City and bought some books that were priced to clear. (We might resell them at a profit...)

July 10, 2011

    Dreamed of an actual line in the children's book The Travels of Babar: "Real war is not a joke."

    Neisau's right:  that Hotshot game is addictive!

    John and Kathrine came over for dinner, which was pizza. (I burnt my mouth again!)

    Went to Nepeta's games event at the Fox and Fiddle near St. Clair station.  I played The Amazeing Labyrinth, Settlers of Catan (which I won!) and the Monopoly-based card game Deal, which I didn't quite figure out.

    I was a long time getting home because the Salsa on St. Clair street festival had queered up the St. Clair Avenue transport.

July 9, 2011

    Last night I saw Vittorio de Sica's The Children Are Watching Us (for the second time) on DVD.  Powerful.

    This weekend is the noisy nearby Salsa on St. Clair Festival, so the parents and I visited Brampton to escape the noise. (We were going to see the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Niagara on the Lake, but Father wasn't up to driving that far!)

    We went to Downey's Farm Store in Caledon, picked some raspberries (too few were ripe) and bought some strawberries in the store.

    We ate at the original Mandarin Restaurant in Brampton.  That place is huge!

    After we got home, I strolled around Salsa on St. Clair.

July 7, 2011

    Dreamed of an obituary of Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz.

    Baked multigrain bread.

    Dinner was salmon.

    Went on an art walk in Yorkville.  One of the galleries we went to had an exhibit of Picasso etchings. (Many of them have already sold for huge prices!)

    Dreamed of the true story of frontiersman Tom Horn; living on the moon; a Chinese man sitting next to me giving my arm a nasty pinch for no reason; returning to earth with its blue skies, and singing the Al Jolson song "Blue Skies."

July 6, 2011

"Heroes aren't made, they're cornered!"--Redd Foxx

    Dreamed of the Barcarolle in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann; strawberry shortcake.

    Dinner was sausage and mashed potatoes.

    Went to a Classical Music Meetup at the North York Centre library.  The director of the Toronto Summer Music talked about this year's romantic theme.

    I've just quit the online game Frontierville again. (My new interest is a game called Hot Shots.)

    Saw a DVD of Redd Foxx and Groucho Mark doing one-man shows.

July 5, 2011

    Dreamed of a book cover with mold on it; Catherine Mckinnon's song "Spinning Wheel."

    Went shopping.

    Dinner was pork chops.

    Went to the Open Minds Cafe Meetup.  Unfortunately, it was combined with a Live Your Dream Meetup and the latter dominated things. (I had nothing to contribute.)

July 4, 2011

Dreamed about the Petula Clark song "Downtown" (which I sometimes sing at karaoke); wondering why the past is so close; the Warren Beatty movie Heaven Can Wait; the TV series B.J. and the Bear (which I never watched); trying to pick up a load of wire for BJ (who was a trucker) but not being sure which kind.

    Dinner was lasagna.

    Went to an Introvert Meetup.  We walked through the Don Valley to the brick works. (The organizer had a pair of very frisky spaniels.)