Sunday, October 31, 2021
Who are you guys supposed to be?
French Kiss.
About 50 last-minute Halloween costumes at
Black-eyed P's
Saturday, October 30, 2021
So much better than Squid Games
Netflix has a nicely dubbed English version of this Danish thriller.
Squid sucks.
Low Q
So I'm in a restaurant watching as folks are asked to show their Ontario vax QR codes.
About a third of those showing a phone version are then asked for a paper copy. The QR code can't be read from their phone.
Some took a bad photo of it.
Some have phones with such primitive cameras, the code detail is not clear enough.
Some older phones don't have displays compatible with what Ontario tech wizards hath wrought.
The following day, I sit in a second restaurant and witness a repeat: customers offer phone QRs and they can't be read.
Again, about a third of the customers I watch, are asked if they have paper copies. Some don't.
"They're such good liars," one restaurant gate-keeper tells a fellow staffer. "I could never lie as good as they can. But I'm not allowed to say 'I think you're lying.' So in they come."
Paper. It's the new high tech.
Friday, October 29, 2021
Halloween Fireplace
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Yes kids, here's your Halloween fireplace!
It's just like the crackly crap channel cable and satellite supply you at Christmas--but this one is all Halloween-ie and spooky music.
Play it all weekend and creep adults out.
Travel sweepstakes
"An antibody test, a rapid diagnostic developed by Abbott Laboratories that requires a simple, single finger prick, takes five minutes to complete and cost Egyptians a mere 50¢. Genome tests developed by Roche, which were administered to nearly four million, cost no more than $5 each. That’s a sharp contrast to what people are charging today to test for Co-vid—in some cases $10 to $20 for a serology test, and more than $150 for a genome test"
INNOCENT QUESTION:
How much has Shoppers Drug Mart made so far off "Covid Tests for Travel" it sells for $42?
Or the private labs in storefronts and malls pitching $180 deals for international travel? You've seen their ads on Facebook?
_Meta man
_Facebook heavy Mark Zuckerberg faces down his doppelganger,
who is also smug, odd and incorrigible.
Moments after the demo,
the Zuck avatar was
torched in Satan's roaring fire.
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Beat me, whip me, make me do bad things...
_Dominatrix offers subs new punishment
that replicates pain, humiliation of
being a Leafs fan....
I'll have a tiny clothespin, please
_Would you like a tiny clothespin with your cocktail?
Sorry.
That's so yesterday.
Punchdrink weeps for the disappearance of tiny clothespins....
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Tiny teeth
ReyesMorales/NYTimes via Axios
Nothing to be afraid of.
Whale sharks have tiny teeth for filtering krill and can't bite.
The controversy revolves around resort areas
hand-feeding them to keep them from migrating
so tourists can play with them.
This photo published yesterday
does nothing to repel my nightmares
about giant muskies in Ontario lakes.
The ones that nibble your toes?
Tooth traumas
In response to a couple of queries yesterday about my terrific zonk dentist ...
Tom Williams--a man with Answers to most of Life's Questions--sent me there decades ago, and I'm eternally grateful.
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
A day at the dentist
I am 12 or 13 years old.
The only dentist in our prairie town is on the fourth floor of a medical building.
Dr Schvenk's window looks down at the Bijou Theater, where I spend many happy hours watching Saturday morning cartoons and serials at kiddie matinees.
The dentist has a barber chair and a rickety Tinkertoy apparatus that runs with cords, wheels and pulleys. He runs this thing with his foot. This spins the whirring screwdriver apparatus at the end of the gizmo to poke at your teeth.
Sometimes mom or dad were called in to pin your shoulders against the chair so Dr. Schvenk can force a toilet plunger mask over your face. The gas inside smells like rubber and rotten eggs.
Each burst of gas can only incapacitate a kid two minutes, so this rubber mask is pinned to your head six to eight times. Kids who threw up during the procedure got an old towel and dagger looks. I saw one kid have his feet tied to the bottom of the chair so he couldn't kick the good doctor.
* * *
I went to my terrific dentist in Markham yesterday, the one who's dealt with me for decades.
It was nothing like my kid-hood.
I pay any amount to be totally Zonked.
I remember nothing save for Rosa, the good Doc, Linda, the cheery nurse, and greeting my ride like a stunned robot about 90 minutes later.
It cost quite a bit thru the decades to un-remember Schvenk.
But I recommend it.
dunf and Dr. Schvenk
(patient's recollection)
First things first
Imposter!
A New York state lawsuit claims there's
not enough strawberry in a PopTart
to qualify as a Strawberry PopTart.
The filling is mostly pear and apple.
The same lawyers sued Subway for falsely advertising bread in their sandwiches.
Bread is defined as having no more than 2% sugar. Subway's buns have 10% sugar.
As the world goes to hell in a handcar,
it's good to know we're tackling
the most important things first.
Oh, Great Pumpkin...
Bubble bubble, toil and trouble
Diddle-dee and Snicker-snatch
Hail the King of Pumpkin Patch....
Monday, October 25, 2021
Rainstorm
_"Special weather statement
issued for Toronto with
heavy rain and flooding
on the way."
--blogto.com
Reader comment:
Is Drake gonna be ok?
BOSSA MONDAY MORNING
How can a piano guy with such stubby fingers be up for a Latin Grammy?
Antonio Adolfo shows why playing his Sá Marina (Pretty World) -- worth watching for a turn by Leo Amuedo, the Latin world's best guitarist. He's from Uruguay.
This is one of hundreds of live sets by Brazil's best musicians, sponsored by SESC, a private business consortium that promotes culture. It's an archive of Nearly Every Music Magician of the last 25 years at the height of their powers.
They're taped in front of their musical peers.
Can you imagine such a library of Canadian talent for the nation, YouTube and history?
Dream on.
Sunday, October 24, 2021
Leo Ameudo takes another turn
Leo Ameudo with Ivan Lins ...
A gente merece ser feliz (We deserve to be happy)
Mom Nifkins' Jellied Gin
At the first fires of fall, my mind goes to Mom Nifkin and her jars of jellied gin.
I would know nothing of the dear soul, save for Allan McFee, the CBC Radio legend.
"Her spun gold hair has gone to silver now," he would tell Eclectic Circus listeners. "Yet still Moms gamely hobbles to her gingerbread kitchen to put up her little pots of jellied gin."
Moms would send jellied gin to McFee.
"She occasionally sips two or three herself before slipping into the arms of Morpheus," he'd snicker. McFee's pocket mouse often indulged.
Yes kids. These were jelly shots decades before they appeared in bars.
In celebration of McFee, Moms and her celebrated fall gin jelly, a favorite Eclectic tune below....
And of course, a recipe for gin jelly ...
Jellied gin
A crackling fire, the smell of fall
and Jellied Gin, enough shots
to put you beddy-bye behind the couch.
Perhaps you recall them from your
Varsity days?
Saturday, October 23, 2021
DONUT JUNKIES
"I'm kinda dealin' with it ...
"I'm gonna miss that place...
"It's the only thing the town has..."
Donut fans "devastated" by day without donuts!
Small fire destroys town's donuts and dreams.
Details at 11. Or right now, above...
Saturday Donuts - Bill Burr
Dunkin', Timmy's, it's all about the coffee.
Bill Burr swears--a lot--by this.
Donuts? The ones no one wanted?
Forget the donuts.
"Fresh not frozen."
Yeah, right.
Friday, October 22, 2021
Et tu, Brute?
Are you following the coup and counter-plotting at Rogers Communications?
A good shark feeding frenzy is a spectacular water feature, much desired in the larger mansions and towers of Apex Business Predators.
CBC News has a fine update on the Rogers mess HERE.
Was it not ever? Everybody fancies themselves to be alpha shark.
But how can so much information on Rogers' bloodfest already be in the public domain?
I can think of one board of directors that has never even hinted how they came to kill the celebrated chief executive who created a Toronto tabloid that kept them in fine fish food for decades.
Did they not gladly fly to foreign cities for "events" on the company dime?
Were they not always chomping fine food with the very exec they killed?
Was it really so sinister a coup any explanation must go to their graves?
Maybe it's just Halloween.
Or maybe you should always look behind you.
Wheels of a dream
"It's good to get out of the city for a day, even if the rental-car options are limited."
Douglas Adam Thompson for newyorker.com
Pierre Bourque (1958 - 2021)
The news aggregator touted as Canada's Drudge has been frozen since. Not much news of his passing beyond the Ottawa region.
Halloween comes early
Rudy Guiliani as Abraham Lincoln.
Pic from an actual Guiliani posting
too silly to explain.
Thursday, October 21, 2021
_
_Yee, yay, yo, yah
Kanye West, who may be one of the Ninja Turtles, got a judge to agree his official name is now Ye.
But a rock podcast assures me it's not pronounced
"Yee" as in Yeezy.
It's pronounced "Yay" as in Kahn-yay.
If the "E" sounds like "A"
as in neighbor or weigh,
say "Yah" and
move on.
Pictured, Yay's new mask for Halloween.
Please: no apples.
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