Shaka, when the walls fell...
May. 30th, 2007 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6Not been a great day for me in terms of the thin layer of fantasy I use to coat my everyday life.
Firstly, no comic day again. :(. Solely US holidays generally don't affect us, nor do solely Canadian ones like last week. I hope this is just Canada Post (or whoever actually handles it) slacking off these last few weeks and not a signal we're entering a dark age where we'll be delayed _both_ for Canadian and US holidays.
Anyway, since my only comic this week was due to be Teen Titans, I'm making this a skip week. I'll get the issue next week. I'm not making the hour long walk to the comic store and back just to get one book, a fill-in run by the writer who ruined Batgirl. It can wait.
Secondly, my shadow struck again. I think I've mentioned it before. I seem to have a shadow. It's often the case where I'll see a book I want in a store and say 'I'll get that next week'. And it doesn't matter if that was the first time I saw that book, or if it's been there in that same spot for months and months, the day I finally decide to go and get it? Someone (my shadow) has already purchased it. This week it was a cheap copy of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. *shakes fist at shadow*.
So, instead of comic day I'll just do a couple of random things.
But first, since someone will bug me if I don't: For lunch I had a pastrami sandwich, with mustard.
Work was a bit of a pain, hot + heavy load, so tired. Anyway, on to randomish stuff.
Things I Saw On The Way To Work, or How Hollywood (North) turns a cemetary into a fun children's park
I was walking down towards the comic shop, and, while passing by the cemetary, I saw what looked like those big trailers for filming stuff. Fair enough, I figured they were filming something using the cemetary. Perfectly sensible. Passed a lot of the crew, didn't ask what it was though I was curious.
I saw what I assumed were prop guys with some assorted weird looking things, that looked sort of childlike but I didn't know if maybe it was for different scenes.
Then I saw the llama. At least, I think it was a llama, I'm not entirely sure. But it was a real one. Anyway, it was right near the gate entrance to the cemetary. Now, you don't usually see a llama on your way to get comics, at least not here in Toronto. But, I didn't want to let on that I was new to urban llama spotting, so I just sort of nodded and continued walking, wondering why they needed a llama on set for a cemetary scene, and wondering if perhaps they were actually filming across the street from the cemetary, and just parking here.
Then I looked inside the cemetary.
Where I saw, new to the place, a pole with signs pointing in various directions, in bright colors. One of them said 'Tickets'.
It looked like the entrance to some sort of kids theme park. I figure they were _just_ using the driveway of the place, and filming the rest of the theme park somewhere else because otherwise... well, all the gravestones would kind of detract from a fun, kid-friendly atmosphere.
Still, kind of amusing and odd.
Speaking of the movie biz, I found out thanks to Facebook that I went to school with an actress. Elementary school, my dear Watson.
Not a _particularly_ famous actress. She's been in Mutant X (she was the one who replaced the telepath - I'd long stopped watching it by this point because I could bear no more cheesy plots), and I think she was in a Canadian teen drama called Vampire High that I'd seen a handful of episodes of on Space.
How did I find this out, and what's the connection? Well, someone started a FB group for the very tiny Canadian Forces Station I lived in for a few years in the early 80s. It was where I had my first school, where I had my first crush, and where subjectively it felt like a lot of my childhood took place, even though objectively I've spent much longer as a child in Toronto. (It's the time compression thing, I think. When you're like 6 years old, 3 years is half your life). If I then moved to Toronto, I'd have to spend 6 years there before it was half my life again, and since I moved a few times in Toronto it kept resetting the clock). Someone started posting yearbook pages. In one of them I happened to see the actresses name, which I remembered for some reason, so I did a google search and found out she was a military brat too. She was 2 years older than me, 2 years younger than my brother. I don't remember her, but I don't remember anyone other than perhaps 2 people from those days, so that's not surprising - this was a tiny tiny place though (my kindergarten had 8-10 kids I think, and that was the one school for the whole town), so chances are we at least knew each other back then.
In other facebook discoveries, I saw a few kindergarten pictures of me, and apparently that year I won a poster contest for Fire Prevention Week. I have no memory of it, but I assume I did something devilishly clever like made my poster out of non-flammable stuff.
I've said it before, but it bears repeating: FB is bizarre source of strange nostalgia.
If I ever rule the world, in my glorious new regime, the bottom of every screw will serve as a screwdriver head for screws of that type. Then, you don't usually have to worry about having exactly the right type of screwdriver... all you need is an extra screw, and some kind of general purpose screwdriver that can use the screw as a head.
Finally, it's a hot one today, so I hope the Canadians on my list are aware that you can get $5 worth of FREE icecream from Chapmans, once per year per household, just by sending an email. I read it online and tried it out, and lo and behold, a few days ago (and only a week or so after I sent the email), I got a coupon for $5 off Chapman's products. That's one unrestricted coupon, so you could by a $5 thing of premium icecream or get a great deal on 2 of the cheaper variety (or presumably even wait for a sale). You just have to email contactus@chapmans.ca and request a coupon, saying you heard they give out one per family per year, and giving them your name and address. Sorry, only in Canada.
Firstly, no comic day again. :(. Solely US holidays generally don't affect us, nor do solely Canadian ones like last week. I hope this is just Canada Post (or whoever actually handles it) slacking off these last few weeks and not a signal we're entering a dark age where we'll be delayed _both_ for Canadian and US holidays.
Anyway, since my only comic this week was due to be Teen Titans, I'm making this a skip week. I'll get the issue next week. I'm not making the hour long walk to the comic store and back just to get one book, a fill-in run by the writer who ruined Batgirl. It can wait.
Secondly, my shadow struck again. I think I've mentioned it before. I seem to have a shadow. It's often the case where I'll see a book I want in a store and say 'I'll get that next week'. And it doesn't matter if that was the first time I saw that book, or if it's been there in that same spot for months and months, the day I finally decide to go and get it? Someone (my shadow) has already purchased it. This week it was a cheap copy of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. *shakes fist at shadow*.
So, instead of comic day I'll just do a couple of random things.
But first, since someone will bug me if I don't: For lunch I had a pastrami sandwich, with mustard.
Work was a bit of a pain, hot + heavy load, so tired. Anyway, on to randomish stuff.
Things I Saw On The Way To Work, or How Hollywood (North) turns a cemetary into a fun children's park
I was walking down towards the comic shop, and, while passing by the cemetary, I saw what looked like those big trailers for filming stuff. Fair enough, I figured they were filming something using the cemetary. Perfectly sensible. Passed a lot of the crew, didn't ask what it was though I was curious.
I saw what I assumed were prop guys with some assorted weird looking things, that looked sort of childlike but I didn't know if maybe it was for different scenes.
Then I saw the llama. At least, I think it was a llama, I'm not entirely sure. But it was a real one. Anyway, it was right near the gate entrance to the cemetary. Now, you don't usually see a llama on your way to get comics, at least not here in Toronto. But, I didn't want to let on that I was new to urban llama spotting, so I just sort of nodded and continued walking, wondering why they needed a llama on set for a cemetary scene, and wondering if perhaps they were actually filming across the street from the cemetary, and just parking here.
Then I looked inside the cemetary.
Where I saw, new to the place, a pole with signs pointing in various directions, in bright colors. One of them said 'Tickets'.
It looked like the entrance to some sort of kids theme park. I figure they were _just_ using the driveway of the place, and filming the rest of the theme park somewhere else because otherwise... well, all the gravestones would kind of detract from a fun, kid-friendly atmosphere.
Still, kind of amusing and odd.
Speaking of the movie biz, I found out thanks to Facebook that I went to school with an actress. Elementary school, my dear Watson.
Not a _particularly_ famous actress. She's been in Mutant X (she was the one who replaced the telepath - I'd long stopped watching it by this point because I could bear no more cheesy plots), and I think she was in a Canadian teen drama called Vampire High that I'd seen a handful of episodes of on Space.
How did I find this out, and what's the connection? Well, someone started a FB group for the very tiny Canadian Forces Station I lived in for a few years in the early 80s. It was where I had my first school, where I had my first crush, and where subjectively it felt like a lot of my childhood took place, even though objectively I've spent much longer as a child in Toronto. (It's the time compression thing, I think. When you're like 6 years old, 3 years is half your life). If I then moved to Toronto, I'd have to spend 6 years there before it was half my life again, and since I moved a few times in Toronto it kept resetting the clock). Someone started posting yearbook pages. In one of them I happened to see the actresses name, which I remembered for some reason, so I did a google search and found out she was a military brat too. She was 2 years older than me, 2 years younger than my brother. I don't remember her, but I don't remember anyone other than perhaps 2 people from those days, so that's not surprising - this was a tiny tiny place though (my kindergarten had 8-10 kids I think, and that was the one school for the whole town), so chances are we at least knew each other back then.
In other facebook discoveries, I saw a few kindergarten pictures of me, and apparently that year I won a poster contest for Fire Prevention Week. I have no memory of it, but I assume I did something devilishly clever like made my poster out of non-flammable stuff.
I've said it before, but it bears repeating: FB is bizarre source of strange nostalgia.
If I ever rule the world, in my glorious new regime, the bottom of every screw will serve as a screwdriver head for screws of that type. Then, you don't usually have to worry about having exactly the right type of screwdriver... all you need is an extra screw, and some kind of general purpose screwdriver that can use the screw as a head.
Finally, it's a hot one today, so I hope the Canadians on my list are aware that you can get $5 worth of FREE icecream from Chapmans, once per year per household, just by sending an email. I read it online and tried it out, and lo and behold, a few days ago (and only a week or so after I sent the email), I got a coupon for $5 off Chapman's products. That's one unrestricted coupon, so you could by a $5 thing of premium icecream or get a great deal on 2 of the cheaper variety (or presumably even wait for a sale). You just have to email contactus@chapmans.ca and request a coupon, saying you heard they give out one per family per year, and giving them your name and address. Sorry, only in Canada.
