On the long drive to Ohio, after we passed the giant windfarm, we had breakfast at the Sunrise Diner in West Lafayette IN (at 3:00 p.m.) The #6 – eggs, choice of meat, choice of potatoes, toast, choice of a short stack of pancakes or biscuits & gravy. It was a little food-service-y: deep fried […]
We turned Sunday into a three movie day, by adding Sightseers (a pick of the day from the TIFF artistic director Cameron Bailey) to the two we already had tickets for, Disconnect and Yellow. It’s already Tuesday and I’m back in Madison, but I’m just too tired to write up these last three – it’ll […]
Friday we had an 11:00 a.m. movie and a 6:00 p.m. movie. The early one was Much Ado About Nothing, modernized, filmed in b&w at Joss Whedon’s (of Avengers & Buffy the vampire killer fame) house in 12 days. We liked it a lot. Came back to the apartment for egg sandwiches, and then Mark […]
As of Thursday, Sept. 13, we’ve been here one week. I still have that “we just got here” feeling, though. Thursday’s movies didn’t start till 3:00. We paid a visit to Bulldog for coffee, and then I came back to the apartment to work, and sent Mark off to shop. He went to the Eaton […]
Yesterday, after Detroit Unleaded, we hit up the market, and found it almost closed – understandably – it was almost 5:00 p.m. and it closes at 6:00. We got some fruit and cheese (a creamy “American” Asiago) and salad greens. We came back to the apartment, did some work, and I texted with Al & […]
We’re up to 8 movies. Sunday night, we saw a late show of At any price, a little too melodramatic, but lots of young girl screamers waiting to see Zac Efron. We came back to the apartment and ate our leftover pizza from Saturday – stayed up till 2:00 a.m. Monday was a three movie […]
Yesterday, the rainy Saturday of TIFF 2012 – Johnny Depp was in town but we didn’t see him, even though the theater where the film he supporting – West of Memphis – is probably closest to our apartment – it’s part of Ryerson University. We walked past another (probably not as huge crowd) trying to […]
I got a really funny message from my BFF, Rach, on Tuesday evening about how oh, it’s a Tuesday that feels like a Monday, and even though we had a 3 (or 4, in her case) day weekend, it wasn’t long enough. Lots of cooking fun over the holiday weekend – Baked a peach raspberry […]
Mark saw the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at the Art Institute when he was there for Lollapalooza, and thought it was so good that I should see it too – seriously enough that he took me there for a belated birthday present. I handed in the first of the syllabi for the three courses I am […]
I saw a newspaper headline today that said that the mid-week 4th of July holiday is confusing would-be vacationers & tourists – it’s too hard to make the Wednesday 4th add into a 3- or 4-day weekend, and nobody wants to burn the extra days off work, or figure out when to travel, when to […]