September!! September 2022 already!
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davemerrillWhat have we been up to? Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe were great, Los Straitjackets played with Nick, which I wasn't expecting. Massey Hall was jam packed. We stayed masked up all the time. Our seats weren't terrific, but they were kind of last minute. Went to Chinatown and got a late dinner afterwards
Let's see, what else has been going on...
we drove up to Wasaga Beach Provincial Park and had a beach day on the 21st. Wasaga Beach is the longest freshwater beach in the world! There's a boardwalk and hot dogs and arcades and beach bars and surf shops, all the tacky beach stuff of a Myrtle Beach or a Daytona compressed into two blocks of central Ontario Georgian Bay shoreline. The park is next to all this and was less crowded than the civic beach, so that's where we went.
Vic Mignogna the "R. Kelly Of Anime" lost his appeal, so there was a three day explosion of chud brains all over Twitter which has since died back as the right wing offenderati find something new to get offended about, and millions (well, hundreds) of alt accounts are silenced forever.
Project Z Fansubs remastered the Corn Pone Flicks versions of "Grandizer Vs Great Mazinger" and "Mazinger Z Vs Devilman," meaning you can enjoy our parody subtitles in high-def. I had the opportunity to replace some jokes in "Mazinger Z Vs Devilman" and was happy to do it, those jokes did NOT age well.
Didn't do a whole lot for my birthday, which was Friday the 26th, but I did take the day off and I rode around the waterfront and Ontario Place until I got dehydrated and had to sit quietly for a bit. Saturday was our day to go to the CNE, and we did that, but before we did that, the kitchen sink suddenly decided it was going to stop draining. A blockage in the pipe downstream from our sink meant that any water we put into the sink was going to stay right there until it overflowed out of the sink or the dishwasher, but that any time anybody upstairs used their sink or their dishwasher, it drained out of the stack and into our unit. So a lot of bailing and dumping and dumping and bailing. I took the P-trap off the sink and let everything drain into a series of dollar store buckets and tubs while we waited for the plumber to call us back, which, it being a weekend, was Monday.
Monday the plumber came out, cleared the clog, told us to run sinkfuls of really hot water down the drain every once in a while, put a new P-trap on the sink, and was out of there.
That Sunday night we rode our bikes to see Comedy Bang Bang in better seats at Massey Hall, as Scott Auckerman interviewed Peanut Parton, Keith Keith, Power Wheels Beth, and founding Sugarhill Gang member Cal Solomon. Went to Fran's afterwards. thank goodness Fran's survived.
Tuesday was Shain's birthday and we went back out to the CNE, which was less crowded than it had been on Saturday. Still busy, though. People REALLY wanted the CNE back. It's been very trafficky in the neighborhood the entire time but that last week got really bad. One night there was a TFC game as well as the CNE going on, and my attempts to get home at 10pm were thwarted three blocks from our building. I just parked on a side street and walked home, when the traffic finally emptied out around 12:30am I retrieved the car. Why people drive into Liberty Village for events is anybody's guess.
The next weekend, Labor Day weekend, Saturday we drove out to Grand Bend for another beach day - also super busy, but there's a park to the north of downtown that also has beach space and is less crowded. I think our beach tent might have seen the last beach - it's one of those little pop-up things that folds down into a circle, at least it's supposed to. Eventually the plastic ribs break. Sunday was gloomy so we did a little shopping and some TV watching - finally caught up with that "Cats" movie that really serves to show off the weaknesses of inserting human faces onto CG characters and the musical "Cats" in general, which is mostly characters introducing themselves. Monday we biked down to carb up at our tourist comfort food destination The Old Spaghetti Factory, and then biked up the Don River trail to Riverside Park, up the stairs, up the hill, and back through downtown home.
WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING: Only Murders In The Building, What We Do In The Shadows, Star Trek Strange New Worlds, She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel, Space Battleship Yamato 2205 (solid New Yoyages rejigger with selected bits of Yamato III worked into the mix, much more successful than 2202), and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean. Golden Kamuy starts back up next month. Lots of TV to enjoy, we're kind of wallowing here.
October will be here before we know it, AWA's at the end of October, I'm doing Super Happy Fun Sell on Thursday, Anime Hell on Friday and panels about 1972 and 1982. Look out!
Let's see, what else has been going on...
we drove up to Wasaga Beach Provincial Park and had a beach day on the 21st. Wasaga Beach is the longest freshwater beach in the world! There's a boardwalk and hot dogs and arcades and beach bars and surf shops, all the tacky beach stuff of a Myrtle Beach or a Daytona compressed into two blocks of central Ontario Georgian Bay shoreline. The park is next to all this and was less crowded than the civic beach, so that's where we went.
Vic Mignogna the "R. Kelly Of Anime" lost his appeal, so there was a three day explosion of chud brains all over Twitter which has since died back as the right wing offenderati find something new to get offended about, and millions (well, hundreds) of alt accounts are silenced forever.
Project Z Fansubs remastered the Corn Pone Flicks versions of "Grandizer Vs Great Mazinger" and "Mazinger Z Vs Devilman," meaning you can enjoy our parody subtitles in high-def. I had the opportunity to replace some jokes in "Mazinger Z Vs Devilman" and was happy to do it, those jokes did NOT age well.
Didn't do a whole lot for my birthday, which was Friday the 26th, but I did take the day off and I rode around the waterfront and Ontario Place until I got dehydrated and had to sit quietly for a bit. Saturday was our day to go to the CNE, and we did that, but before we did that, the kitchen sink suddenly decided it was going to stop draining. A blockage in the pipe downstream from our sink meant that any water we put into the sink was going to stay right there until it overflowed out of the sink or the dishwasher, but that any time anybody upstairs used their sink or their dishwasher, it drained out of the stack and into our unit. So a lot of bailing and dumping and dumping and bailing. I took the P-trap off the sink and let everything drain into a series of dollar store buckets and tubs while we waited for the plumber to call us back, which, it being a weekend, was Monday.
Monday the plumber came out, cleared the clog, told us to run sinkfuls of really hot water down the drain every once in a while, put a new P-trap on the sink, and was out of there.
That Sunday night we rode our bikes to see Comedy Bang Bang in better seats at Massey Hall, as Scott Auckerman interviewed Peanut Parton, Keith Keith, Power Wheels Beth, and founding Sugarhill Gang member Cal Solomon. Went to Fran's afterwards. thank goodness Fran's survived.
Tuesday was Shain's birthday and we went back out to the CNE, which was less crowded than it had been on Saturday. Still busy, though. People REALLY wanted the CNE back. It's been very trafficky in the neighborhood the entire time but that last week got really bad. One night there was a TFC game as well as the CNE going on, and my attempts to get home at 10pm were thwarted three blocks from our building. I just parked on a side street and walked home, when the traffic finally emptied out around 12:30am I retrieved the car. Why people drive into Liberty Village for events is anybody's guess.
The next weekend, Labor Day weekend, Saturday we drove out to Grand Bend for another beach day - also super busy, but there's a park to the north of downtown that also has beach space and is less crowded. I think our beach tent might have seen the last beach - it's one of those little pop-up things that folds down into a circle, at least it's supposed to. Eventually the plastic ribs break. Sunday was gloomy so we did a little shopping and some TV watching - finally caught up with that "Cats" movie that really serves to show off the weaknesses of inserting human faces onto CG characters and the musical "Cats" in general, which is mostly characters introducing themselves. Monday we biked down to carb up at our tourist comfort food destination The Old Spaghetti Factory, and then biked up the Don River trail to Riverside Park, up the stairs, up the hill, and back through downtown home.
WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING: Only Murders In The Building, What We Do In The Shadows, Star Trek Strange New Worlds, She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel, Space Battleship Yamato 2205 (solid New Yoyages rejigger with selected bits of Yamato III worked into the mix, much more successful than 2202), and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean. Golden Kamuy starts back up next month. Lots of TV to enjoy, we're kind of wallowing here.
October will be here before we know it, AWA's at the end of October, I'm doing Super Happy Fun Sell on Thursday, Anime Hell on Friday and panels about 1972 and 1982. Look out!
