t-giving h-man d-tist
Oct. 12th, 2010 07:07 pmThanksgiving went swell, Shain cooked a big yet surprisingly inexpensive turkey and we watched the penultimate MAD MEN. This season has been outstanding, a big improvement over last season.
Friday we went down to the Trash Palace and saw H-MAN, starts off slow but once the slime people start dissolving gangsters into radioactive sludge you realize that this may in fact be the squickiest film Toho made in the 50s. They also screened a Weegee film about New York and HARDWARE WARS, which has gone from funny to tedious and back to funny again. The guy playing "Ham Salad" is just about perfect. Saturday we went up to St. Clair and had a early supper at a BBQ joint called The Stockyards. It's a really tiny place that does a lot of take out, has to, there's barely any room for customers. The sauce is a peppery North Carolina style (though a tad bland) and the sandwiches come with slaw and it's all prepared right in front of you in the big open kitchen. By the time we were finished the line was out the door, so show up early if you want dinner at Stockyards. Sunday we found ourselves in Oshawa so we did some comic book shopping at Wyldstar Comics (always friendly), made a Home Depot run for light bulbs and we got the last of the groceries for Monday's cooking. I also finished this week's Zero Fighter and Shain posted a new Element Of Surprise bonus story. I've also been working on that Rodak strip but it isn't finished yet. And I've been writing a Let's Anime column about "The Littles".
Yesterday we ate turkey and watched MAD MEN and some RiffTrax and finished watching MISSION "Perry Rhodan" STARDUST and the weekend-long SCTV marathon that the Comedy Channel's retro channel has been running. Lots of good stuff I hadn't seen in years, including the "1984" theme show. And we did go for a walk around the neighborhood in the crisp fall air. The "Cultureshoc" place that was advertising life drawing classes, it's closed and is now some kind of storefront church. I guess the hipster Queen West influence only extends so far.
Today I dragged my turkey-bloated carcass out of bed and made it down to the dentist's office - in spite of computer failure they were able to fill two cavities and replace one aging silver filling. Only took 40 minutes. Modern dentistry is wonderful. Lord knows where those two cavities came from. Cavity Creeps, I guess.

Friday we went down to the Trash Palace and saw H-MAN, starts off slow but once the slime people start dissolving gangsters into radioactive sludge you realize that this may in fact be the squickiest film Toho made in the 50s. They also screened a Weegee film about New York and HARDWARE WARS, which has gone from funny to tedious and back to funny again. The guy playing "Ham Salad" is just about perfect. Saturday we went up to St. Clair and had a early supper at a BBQ joint called The Stockyards. It's a really tiny place that does a lot of take out, has to, there's barely any room for customers. The sauce is a peppery North Carolina style (though a tad bland) and the sandwiches come with slaw and it's all prepared right in front of you in the big open kitchen. By the time we were finished the line was out the door, so show up early if you want dinner at Stockyards. Sunday we found ourselves in Oshawa so we did some comic book shopping at Wyldstar Comics (always friendly), made a Home Depot run for light bulbs and we got the last of the groceries for Monday's cooking. I also finished this week's Zero Fighter and Shain posted a new Element Of Surprise bonus story. I've also been working on that Rodak strip but it isn't finished yet. And I've been writing a Let's Anime column about "The Littles".
Yesterday we ate turkey and watched MAD MEN and some RiffTrax and finished watching MISSION "Perry Rhodan" STARDUST and the weekend-long SCTV marathon that the Comedy Channel's retro channel has been running. Lots of good stuff I hadn't seen in years, including the "1984" theme show. And we did go for a walk around the neighborhood in the crisp fall air. The "Cultureshoc" place that was advertising life drawing classes, it's closed and is now some kind of storefront church. I guess the hipster Queen West influence only extends so far.
Today I dragged my turkey-bloated carcass out of bed and made it down to the dentist's office - in spite of computer failure they were able to fill two cavities and replace one aging silver filling. Only took 40 minutes. Modern dentistry is wonderful. Lord knows where those two cavities came from. Cavity Creeps, I guess.
