March 20, 2007

Lone commando Donald Duck's mission: "You will surround the enemy and wipe them out!"

--Commando Duck

Dreamed of levelling a piece of ground with a lawn roller to prepare a campground; singing "Zitti, Zitti" from Verdi's Rigoletto; reading an encyclopedia summary of a (non-existent) British report from the 1930s about why pacifism wasn't in the British character, with the word "vinsplendiferously."

A mouse sneaked into my room and nibbled at a few of my comic strips, so I crammed them into two big valises. [We finally reordered them a few months ago!]

Went shopping.

Dinner was pork chops.

Finally finished the second book of hanjie puzzles.  Really fun!

Saw the DVD of Miss Firecracker.  Couldn't watch it. (Is that Holly Hunter's hair or is she on fire?)

March 18, 2007

"Does it bother you when people call you Shorty?"

"Does it bother you when people call you Retard?"

"Nobody calls me that!"

"Sure."

--Zodiac

Saw David Fincher's Zodiac at the Yorkdale.  Long and hard to follow, but it had some good 1970s atmosphere, with a funny performance by Robert Downey Jr.

Dinner was shepherd's pie.

Baked raisin bread.

March 17, 2007

"You gotta twist and turn, like the eel in the frying pan"--Pelle the Conqueror

Dreamed of living in China; getting in trouble after someone found a (non-existent) letter I wrote comparing NATO to the Gestapo; walking along the grass corridor between opposite lanes of an expressway.

Dinner was microwaved Indian food.

Headache!

Saw the DVD of Bille August's Pelle the Conqueror (for the second time). It's a beautiful, funny melodrama, long but never boring.

March 15, 2007

"It is not easy totally to master someone you've buggered behind the woodpile"--The Confessions of Nat Turner

"It's made of real fake gold"--Notes on a Scandal

"Are you interested in wine?"

"Only the drinking part of it."

--ibid.

 Dinner was lasagna.

Moira and I saw Notes on a Scandal at the Varsity. (We finally used up my 2-for-1 coupon.) It's a sharp, merciless farce.

March 14, 2007

Dreamed of Fibonacci numbers. (That's the series that starts with 1, 1, 2, 3, 5... and so on with each term being the sum of the previous two.)

Dinner was haddock.

Saw part of a DVD of World War II-era Disney cartoons.  Chicken Little had an unappealing "Believe what your government tells you!" message.  But the cartoons with Donald Duck in the army were pretty funny. (There's something subversive about the way DD always looks out for himself...)

March 13, 2007

The warm weather is here.

Started a DVD of Disneyland "Tomorrow Land" episodes about the space program. (War criminal Wernher Von Braun did some narration.) Walt Disney had a slightly sinister TV presence.

Dinner was roast chicken.

Saw the Soviet silent movie A Spectre Haunts Europe with a Meetup group.  Unfortunately, the print had no titles!

March 12, 2007

Dreamed of visiting my old home in Sackville, N.B., and finding that the new owners had turned it into a mobile home!; Stephen Targett of my opera group.

Dinner was roast beef.

Carmen hasn't returned to the choir. (I hope she does after Easter.)