It’s Friday, and I can’t always be serious. If the following offends you, please accept my apology (and loosen up a little).
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Did your vacation go as you had planned? No unexpected delays, or change in the quality of your room? I’m watching (for the second or third time) the Claire Danes movie, Brokedown Palace, a tale of a holiday gone wrong. Terribly wrong. After watching that, you’ll only book with a reputable travel agency. The soundtrack is also excellent.
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In a logical world, the full explanation for a tragedy (and its aftermath) is revealed in a timely fashion. In our world, we get to “fabulate” what the truth might be, in the absence of any information. I’m not in love with our reality, right now.
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Mix a few drops of disapointment into my Canada Day Cocktail. After watching the big show presented over lunch from the Hill, I came away hungry for more. A lot more. A return to the blowout performances from earlier in the century would make all the difference. Sorry, but a show with Avril and Marie-Mai serves to remind me about buying a calendar for next year. Nothing more. If this is the best on offer for CanCon, then we have been robbed my the Can Cons.
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The smartphone update took care of itself, while I wan’t paying attention. Seems to work. Some multi-window feature that will require me to figure out what I can do with yet more detail, but that’s half the fun. Around the same time, I completed my fourth course from Coursera since the start of the year, and my results still surprise me. Back when I was a full-time card-carrying member of the student profession, there were too many other distractions to see me concentrating on good marks and attendance. Now, with the years of being paid to think, I’m a much better student. Ironic.
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Just when they thought things could not degrade any further, it broke. I hate indeterminate pronouns; let’s do a retake on that. Just when the “people in Calgary” thought things (emergency things) could not degrade any further, “the railway bridge” broke. There. Somewhat improved. Railway bridges don’t break, as a rule, especially with several loaded tank cars stuck in the middle. Things can get worse, of course. The cars may fall into the raging river, and float downstream to break other bridges, but that hasn’t happened, yet.
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Bearing mention for outstanding dialogue in a TV series: The Newsroom. If you haven’t had a chance to watch (and listen), then it’s time to leave the comfort zone on your cable (babel) set box. Climb the numbers, until HBO looms into sight.
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For several hours, I’ve been watching other people fishing. For catfish. Not a species I think much about, usually. Wait… not real catfish. The other kind. I’ll explain.
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Proof that watching movies in “first release” is highly over-rated: I finally watched Get Smart this afternoon. Yes, a few years after everyone else, but the gags don’t come with a best before date. And my “vaccination” is still good from my years of watching the original Get Smart, TV version. Now for the answer to the real question… yes, Barbara Feldon outclasses Anne Hathaway. The old secret agent business never gets old.
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One of my (inexpensive) pleasures is reading. Books, magazines, online forums. Yes, there are moments of great comedy among the idle chatter of the fan base. And it doesn’t matter what matter… radio, photography, music, politics, etc. Always one writer that marches to the beat of a different drummer (not just in the music world, either).
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