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The week so far
May. 9th, 2024 04:37 pm1. The tragic wrong-way crash on the 401 that killed an infant and his grandparents was triggered by a theft from an LCBO store. This week the Toronto Star quoted an LCBO employee as saying that theft "is a daily occurrence." When I first moved to Toronto, the LCBO was still essentially a drug dispensary: you chose a bottle from a product list, wrote down the stock number on a form, gave the form to a cashier, and paid. Then you trudged over to a long counter with a long lineup and presented the form to a dour middle-aged male clerk. Finally, after the clerk had disappeared into the stacks, retrieved the bottle, and handed it over, you could escape from the store, sheepishly clutching the brown paper bag containing your drug of choice. I'm sure that more than one Ontarian of a certain age is remembering that system--archaic, judgmental, privacy-violating, and hugely annoying, but pretty much 100 percent theft-proof.
2. In keeping with my resolution to get over myself and get out of my head, I impulsively booked four social events this week. Coffee with F. at Mercurio, lunch with C. at Lalibela, wine and chat with L. at her apartment, and lunch with H. at Holt Renfrew. I'm kind of exhausted (because I'm so out of practice at socializing), but wow, was it ever fun. (The lunch at HR was temporarily disrupted when a sleekly blonde and highly tanned lady a couple of tables down from us jumped up from her seat and gave her companion an impromptu tennis lesson, swatting invisible tennis balls towards the ceiling while declaiming on technique. Of course she drew the attention of the whole restaurant. Rich people are allowed to be as overtly weird as they please, I guess.)
3. The Buffalo PBS channel is now airing "My Life Is Murder" without, as far as I can tell, any advance promos or notice. I found it by accident, and I am thrilled to see Lucy Lawless again. This is a show I'll stick with for as long as it's around: low-stakes (so far) mysteries, amusing, and clever--and it features a cat! Win-win-win-win.
4. This news, however, is lose-lose-lose-lose. "Run the Burbs," as the article says, "celebrates non-toxic masculinity, community, female friendships, and the complexities of intergenerational relationships between immigrant parents and their children and grandchildren." It does all that while being both goofy and smart. As usual, I'm not a member of the show's target demographic; nonetheless, I really looked forward to seeing the Pham fam onscreen every week.
2. In keeping with my resolution to get over myself and get out of my head, I impulsively booked four social events this week. Coffee with F. at Mercurio, lunch with C. at Lalibela, wine and chat with L. at her apartment, and lunch with H. at Holt Renfrew. I'm kind of exhausted (because I'm so out of practice at socializing), but wow, was it ever fun. (The lunch at HR was temporarily disrupted when a sleekly blonde and highly tanned lady a couple of tables down from us jumped up from her seat and gave her companion an impromptu tennis lesson, swatting invisible tennis balls towards the ceiling while declaiming on technique. Of course she drew the attention of the whole restaurant. Rich people are allowed to be as overtly weird as they please, I guess.)
3. The Buffalo PBS channel is now airing "My Life Is Murder" without, as far as I can tell, any advance promos or notice. I found it by accident, and I am thrilled to see Lucy Lawless again. This is a show I'll stick with for as long as it's around: low-stakes (so far) mysteries, amusing, and clever--and it features a cat! Win-win-win-win.
4. This news, however, is lose-lose-lose-lose. "Run the Burbs," as the article says, "celebrates non-toxic masculinity, community, female friendships, and the complexities of intergenerational relationships between immigrant parents and their children and grandchildren." It does all that while being both goofy and smart. As usual, I'm not a member of the show's target demographic; nonetheless, I really looked forward to seeing the Pham fam onscreen every week.
