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the weekend
Mar. 16th, 2015 11:05 amYes, we had one of those! Got up early on Saturday and drove out to Buffalo, just to enjoy the above-freezing weather, to do some shopping, and to give my new Permanent Resident card a spin. Our first stop was an antique mall in Orchard Park, which has moved down the street from where it used to be into a newer, smaller space where most of the merchandise is locked away inside glass cases. On the one hand, when the stuff is inside a case, the customer can't browse or handle or flip through or otherwise inspect. On the other hand, the staff was quick to show up and unlock, and once you've gone through the trouble of unlocking a case, you're more likely to buy something, I think.
This is what we wound up bringing home, it was all kinda cheap. I hadn't seen the Everready cat before we spotted it in a collection of old ads we were watching on the YouTubes, and then a few weeks later there it is in front of us.
After that we had lunch at Mighty Taco, Buffalo's local taco chain. Fresher ingredients and more zip than other cheap "Mexican" food. Then it was into the city and to a few record stores, a comic shop that was closed, a Best Buy to use the gift card Shain got for Christmas, a Target for purposes of torturing us with what we can't have because we can't have nice things in Canada. We went back across the border at Lewiston and spent the drive up the QEW looking for a truck stop to have a proper truck stop late night meal. We found two truck stops and both were closed. The actual gas station part of one was open but they informed us that their restaurant closes at night. I see a business opportunity for anyone who wants to open all-night diners, at least in on that stretch of road.
Sunday we cleaned up the place, got some groceries, had some lunch at "Hey Meatball" (a little pricey, but very good) and watched last year's "Interstellar". I recall the press about the movie being dominated by Nolan's fussiness about shooting on film, making sure the projection was correct in the theaters, etc., and a lot of gosh-wow talk about how this is this generation's 2001 or something. And it's not. I liked it, it's a good solid picture, but a world-beating ultimate masterpiece it ain't. It's a curious mix of SF cliches and angry soapboxing and lonely, desperate men staring at Anne Hathaway, who gets to cry a lot, which is what she does these days in movies. It does have a great soundtrack, and the effects are great. There's a curious avoidance of long exterior shots of the spacecraft, at least early on, that I found frustrating. I know I should have seen it in full super IMAX for the full effect but I don't know if I could take spending three hours and $20 on this movie.
This is what we wound up bringing home, it was all kinda cheap. I hadn't seen the Everready cat before we spotted it in a collection of old ads we were watching on the YouTubes, and then a few weeks later there it is in front of us.
After that we had lunch at Mighty Taco, Buffalo's local taco chain. Fresher ingredients and more zip than other cheap "Mexican" food. Then it was into the city and to a few record stores, a comic shop that was closed, a Best Buy to use the gift card Shain got for Christmas, a Target for purposes of torturing us with what we can't have because we can't have nice things in Canada. We went back across the border at Lewiston and spent the drive up the QEW looking for a truck stop to have a proper truck stop late night meal. We found two truck stops and both were closed. The actual gas station part of one was open but they informed us that their restaurant closes at night. I see a business opportunity for anyone who wants to open all-night diners, at least in on that stretch of road.
Sunday we cleaned up the place, got some groceries, had some lunch at "Hey Meatball" (a little pricey, but very good) and watched last year's "Interstellar". I recall the press about the movie being dominated by Nolan's fussiness about shooting on film, making sure the projection was correct in the theaters, etc., and a lot of gosh-wow talk about how this is this generation's 2001 or something. And it's not. I liked it, it's a good solid picture, but a world-beating ultimate masterpiece it ain't. It's a curious mix of SF cliches and angry soapboxing and lonely, desperate men staring at Anne Hathaway, who gets to cry a lot, which is what she does these days in movies. It does have a great soundtrack, and the effects are great. There's a curious avoidance of long exterior shots of the spacecraft, at least early on, that I found frustrating. I know I should have seen it in full super IMAX for the full effect but I don't know if I could take spending three hours and $20 on this movie.
