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I took this picture of a tree in High Park today. It’s a good tree.
You can make lifelong friendships on The Island
Tom Boobadil cost Harris the election
I’ve never seen a lodged ball call like that before
My spouse thought it was unrealistic that anyone could remain faithful when Cary Grant was on the move.
Lobster rolls are the thing I miss most about the east coast
Happy Labour Day, fellow workers
You can also crank up the volume on your Joi unit so she shouts a lot.
Absolutely true
Now that I have read it on the internet, I will pass it along as verified truth
Tonight was the 1999 Missummer Nights Dream with Kevin Kline, Rupert Everett and a brilliant Stanley Tucci. My favourite Shakespeare film that doesn’t have Emma Thompson. Quite delightful.
Aww, crap. Just discovered that Sriracha Hot, uh,“Rooster” Sauce is American and we’ll have to find a substitute for it when we run out.
Also: I would be happy if the sky would clear up before twilight was done.
Dame Diana Rigg and Michelle Yeoh were the best Bond, uh, ‘girls’.
Is there room for Frog and Toad?
Cut and paste
In this Trump there is many a Marius
Tomorrow Never Knows. It still feels fresh.
@mikeduncan.bsky.social ‘s book The Storm Before The Storm is my favourite book on the subject
I’ve always found the Republic fascinating but not admirable.
That’s your choice. Lots of people in Toronto wear shorts into snow season
I’ve only ever called it the SkyDome but if they wanted to honour the couple whose hotel frolics made it onto the Jumbotron and rename it Exhibition Stadium, I’d be cool with that too.
I will never, and can never, explain Alf Hog to my spouse.
A willingness, even an eagerness, to print white supremacist material.
Watched the 1996 Twelfth Night with Helena Bonham-Carter, Nigel Hawthorne and Richard E Grant. I've seen stage versions that reduced me to tears of laughter but in spite of the cast, this version never really got off the ground. A few good chuckles and that's about it.
I’ll call them Henry and Eustace
I like air shows, I have fond memories of seeing Spitfires and Lancasters at the CNE Air Show, but I can't help thinking that maybe flying high performance fighter jets at low levels over urban areas may be a thing we can really do without.
Ever since she took the pope's side against Sinead O'Connor, I have felt nothing but schadenfreude for Madonna's flops.
I will be calling my helmet a Bicycle Helm for the rest of my life
There’s no basic about it, it’s the gold standard.
Honestly, I didn’t think of anything so tasteful - my mind went full Jessica Rabbit.
A local pub serves croques madame et monsieur on waffles instead of bread convincing me that waffles are perfect for everything.
My etymology siren is screaming right now!
Waffle cone, the very best cone
Canada needs better friends than the US. I’ve been advocating Canada joining the EU now that we share a land border with Denmark but the Commonwealth is a network we could and should take advantage of.
My mom had a Neon. It was a staggeringly bad car.
Just one extra beep. It also turns the lights out.
Bicycle racing is the blueskyest of sports.
It is impossible for Tesla stockholders to admit at this point just how badly they're fucked as it would involve admitting how blindly idiotic they've been for the past five years.
An excellent book - a fine companion piece is @philplait.bsky.social 's Death From the Skies!
Neil Young and David Bowie - the two artists you could count on to be different every time.
Don't forget those 42 years of service fees.
I went in ready to hate it because he isn’t Humphrey Bogart but it works. It really works.
Another vote for Chain of Fools
Tesla Cybertruck Quality Inspector
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Five Years today. Something different tomorrow.
Stop! I already have enough!
1) buy some baggy sweats that won’t make men sin by looking at you so you can go to the gym 2) the women’s change room will have an emergency exit. Take it. Get a cash advance before he notices you missing and cancels the cards. Flee to another city.
The blood of Mar A Lago spa girls. He doesn’t have to share them anymore.
Star Wars. I was 13 when it first came out and until then, movies were just things you watched and forgot, but that first scene with the star destroyer passing overhead made me aware of the power of cinema to do incredible things. That summer, my friends and I started making our own movies.
Tim Curry has unearthly powers
Geez. Weddings should have a seven day trial period during which you can just say no, it never happened.
Is that an American thing? I’ve never seen it in Canada. Not even among my awful cousins.
I love absolute statements like that because now I will spend the rest of the night thinking “Well, what about…”
They have a right to see the same corporate logos for their entire lives, damnit
If it was real, every surface would have had gold-painted crap glued on
Named after a nuclear bomber, how could they be anything but a threat to Soviet youth? (I know)
*ahem*. That's MITCHELL!
I've never seen a Rolex watch that I thought was real. I always assume it's a $20 fake.
If the con is any good, a Torgo will find you.
The Master. How is that even a question?
Thanksgiving is the real end of summer. Global warming ruins a month in the middle but gives us an extra month at the end.
He doesn't believe a word of it. He's just working on grabbing Leavitt by the celebrity prerogative.
In Toronto? They'll give him a medal.
I suggested a couple of songs by The Beaches. Toronto is the most important city in Canada, after all.
As good as a Bugs Bunny cartoon is a test I will apply to every film going forward.
Countercounterpoint - it only works if you eat radioactive mantis shrimp.
I think just saying the name makes babies cry.
The creator was confused by steamed hams.
Eat Drink Man Woman -Ang Lee’s first big hit but deep enough I couldn’t find a gif for it
youtu.be/LQiOA7euaYA?...
PP will win. We all had our laugh with Carleton
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I'd throw in a vote for Goodbye Lenin!
How about this: Repost with a movie you love that you didn't expect to love at all
But I was disappointed to find there was no Mayor's Income, Tennessee.
The Gods of Comedy gave us Carleton, I'm not sure they love us enough for a repeat of the fun.
youtu.be/WaTZe6x7WUw?...
I was thinking along those lines, but I wonder about things like Ed Wood films which were (as far as I can tell) sincerely made but just so bad that they can only be appreciated as camp?
Alas, poor Dril.
One thing I really liked about Tom Lehrer was that he never pretended his songs "destroyed" Richard Nixon, or that Kissinger was "melting down" over the MLF Lullaby.
Where can I buy a steel boomerang? I need to be prepared.
I really wanted one of those wave machines when that came out.
Diva. Is that deep enough? It's French, anyway.
I loved the original from the moment Stitch said something so vile that a robot threw up his gears. Kid grew up, no desire to watch the remake.
Hitting someone in the back of the head with a dinner roll is a lost conversational art.
I agree. I love ice cream, but don’t have a lot of love for the knightly class.
I was never really happy with the output of my creative endeavors (the neighbours who can hear my guitar would probably agree) but I decided that I could at least try to be the sophisticated audience that artists need to support them.
I love that album. It might be my favourite of hers. I love the earlier stuff too, but I often got that trying too hard to be weird feeling.
Some genuine acting talent on display there.
Red Storm Rising. Ted was the gay porn version.
I gave up on Clancy after I read Ted Storm Rising. All the Americans were geniuses and the Russians were incompetent. Turns out he was at least right about the Russians.
I saw that the milk was labeled unsafe for human consumption, but I suspect somewhere along the line someone said “Oh, it’s safe. Big Dairy makes us stick that label on “
I forget.. who was threatening to annex us?
Everyone knows that weed laws are meant to apply to non-white people. That’s why conservative people love them. They know they aren’t going to jail for their weekend indulgence.
If the dairy made the claim that their raw milk was safe for human consumption, sue them to ashes and throw the ashes into the sea.
My favourite Terrance Stamp role was Bernadette in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. A hell of an actor.
Try “yokels” next time, the extra syllable might baffle them.
Everyone is talking about Superman but that was the role that really impressed me.