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Last weekend was the long weekend (we had Monday off)! Saturday we drove way out into the sticks, up to the Blue Mountains area, which is this rolling, hilly, scenic part of Ontario in between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. Had some lunch, walked around the harbor of Meaford, got back late Saturday night so we missed the knifing that happened in Exhibition Place while the Caribana was winding down. Sunday we went to the Beguiling and I bought some stuff.
probably gonna review the Emeraldus; the Ultraman Ace book comes with a 33rpm single, and the weekly was out of a big box of weeklies from the 80s, which is always cool.
Monday we went out to the drive-in theater and saw the Ghostbusters and the Star Trek, so it's basically like we went back to 1984. Both are good movies; the Ghostbusters is firmly committed to being really funny and in a way that's not at all beholden to the original. The Star Trek is an action picture full of giant outer space spectacle - visually it's stunningly well designed - and the script is solid, moves forward aggressively, and is simplistic to the point of at one point Kirk calls Scotty to have Scotty explain something to the audience. And after that last Star Trek picture, which for the life of me didn't make a lick of sense, I appreciate a movie that at least has the self-awareness to realize when it's getting a bit ahead of itself.
Tuesday is when it really started to warm up. It wasn't warm enough on Saturday for us to get any beach time in, so we might have to squeeze in a trip out to Grand Bend sometime in the next couple of weeks - and we'll have to do it before August 27, because that's when we're Featured Artists at the Cambridge Comic Arts Festival!
probably gonna review the Emeraldus; the Ultraman Ace book comes with a 33rpm single, and the weekly was out of a big box of weeklies from the 80s, which is always cool.
Monday we went out to the drive-in theater and saw the Ghostbusters and the Star Trek, so it's basically like we went back to 1984. Both are good movies; the Ghostbusters is firmly committed to being really funny and in a way that's not at all beholden to the original. The Star Trek is an action picture full of giant outer space spectacle - visually it's stunningly well designed - and the script is solid, moves forward aggressively, and is simplistic to the point of at one point Kirk calls Scotty to have Scotty explain something to the audience. And after that last Star Trek picture, which for the life of me didn't make a lick of sense, I appreciate a movie that at least has the self-awareness to realize when it's getting a bit ahead of itself.
Tuesday is when it really started to warm up. It wasn't warm enough on Saturday for us to get any beach time in, so we might have to squeeze in a trip out to Grand Bend sometime in the next couple of weeks - and we'll have to do it before August 27, because that's when we're Featured Artists at the Cambridge Comic Arts Festival!
