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For a while, after I deleted my Twitter account and before I started using my Bluesky account instead, I was keeping my bits and pieces on my Tumblr, which I also no longer use. These are those bits and pieces.
01 - I don't suppose I need to explain to anyone how weird I feel about putting a fan on ... in October.
01 - Am I the only person alive who remembers Caesar's wine coolers? They had so little alcohol content in them they could be sold in corner stores to teenagers. I remember really liking them.
01 - Listening to the news it has, for the first time, occurred to me how much Banff sounds like one of those comic book violence splatters like KERPOW and WHAM. Herkimer (St. in Hamilton) sounds like something painful you do to someone that makes them Guelph after.
01 - Editing my profile on Mastodon feels a little like editing my old .plan file.
01 - If you've seen this at the grocery store and had a passing fancy to try it - don't. Just don't. Without a doubt, this Tim Hortons microwaveable soup cup is the worst soup I’ve ever had. So bad, in fact, I couldn’t finish it. I got about three spoonfuls deep before I had to dump it.
02 - A few months ago I finally gave in and bought some pot gummies. I have a hell of a time sleeping sometimes, and a couple of my friends swear by CBD. They had ones that taste like root beer! Why do they make it so hard to get into these packages? I'm tired, man. I don't have the energy to struggle here. Y'all are making life difficult.
06 - I wonder if anyone's done a study, or something, on why we enjoy things like order packing, power washing, etc. videos so much.
06 - They tell us to change batteries in smoke alarms the days the clocks change times. We're in Canada. Wouldn't be simpler to tell us to do it July 1st and January 1st? That's when I do it.
07 - Every time I see the colour Raw Sienna, all I can hear in my head is "raw sienna" to the tune of Ultravox's Oh Vienna.
08 - I just came back from seeing The Mission and The Chameleons in Toronto, and as soon as I opened the door to my building the smell hit me - of several floors of good Thanksgiving cooking. All that lovely, savoury warmth. Delicious. I hope everyone had a contented weekend!
08 - As I iron my third pair of pants, I wonder why I bought pants that needed ironing at all. We need a world of unwrinklyable clothing.
08 - Years ago, I figured Nick Cave and the boys could make some good money for charity auctioning off the opportunity to shave Warren Ellis. Today, I'm thinking Erasure could really bring in the coin for charity by auctioning off Vince Clarke cracking a smile.
09 - My Thanksgiving appears to consist of getting a new-to-me comfy chair from my friend's mother-in-law's condo. Is it beige? Yes it is. But that's what chair slip-covers are for, and there’s one in my cart already. Huzzah!
11 - Sometimes I really want an Easy Bake Oven.
12 - One thing I enjoy about Hallowe'en, are the big boxes of mini chocolate bars - that I buy for myself because I have adult money and no kids.
Sometimes you want just a little pop of sweet, so the mini bars are perfect.
(*) I don't live somewhere I can grace trick-or-treaters with my candy-buying prowess, or I'd share them. I swear I would.
12 - I've spent the past day changing the email addresses and passwords associated with everything important that I do digitally. Always a monumental pain in the ass, but an occasionality necessary thing regardless. I decided to make use of the Gmail + feature and created a whole new address (which I apparently already owned but forgot about) to use it with. We’ll see what that uncovers, if anything at all.
13 - Someone on a CBC ad just compared Mr. Dressup's tickle trunk to Pandora's box.
Madam, I understand that you were looking for something magical to compare the tickle trunk to, but that is not a good analogy.
Ouch.
16 - As I sit here swallowing my twice daily intake of big people meds, it occurs to me to wonder - yet again - why the fuck can't I have meds that taste like chocolate or something. Why don't big people get fun flavours. Who the hell adulted that shit?
20 - I need to take a trip to the community fridge or food bank to donate these reusable bags. I've got so many of these frigging things they need their own room. I wonder, yet again, who thought getting rid of single use plastics was a better idea than these - which cost more, and aren’t recyclable.
20 - The highlights of last evening's conversation (so far): rosemary and lavender deodorant is right out someone marketed mint-scented (or flavoured, I didn't read the package that closely) condoms which then reminded me of holy bread, which always tasted like envelope glue to me.
20 - When I ordered my groceries I thought I'd treat myself. I thought I was ordering the family size. This is enough for a family of families.
A few moments later...
Turns out it’s just a packet of normal-sized ones.
21 - I had an afternoon nap and during my dream I was at a Police concert where Sting gave me the mic - so I told my favourite joke because I couldn’t think of anything else to say. What's brown and sticky? A stick.
21 - Nothing says all-nighter snack like limp leftover salad.
24 - I still want to grow up to be Tina Weymouth.
28 - I went to the pharmacy to get the allotment of big people drugs, and one I'm used to getting a three month supply of every go - the weekly Ozempic injectable - I can now only get one month at a time. And why is that, you ask? Because it's in short supply due to people using it for weight loss.
28 - If I told you that I thought the Duran Duran cover of Psycho Killer is horrible, would you be surprised? Good gawd. It's terrible. Angels and ministers of grace defend us.
30 - Watching Escape to the Country has taught me that I never need to hear the words “holiday let” ever again.
30 - Today is a sad day. Today I have to put socks on for the first time since April, and get my winter coat out. I didn't sign up for this.