One Liners

[Geek Chic]
Gmap Pedometer :

[Creatively speaking]
Do you get aroused from squeezing balloons until they explode? Do you quiver with delight as you watch popcorn pop? Have you ever been patient enough to stand in front of a ripe flower bud for hours to witness its slow explosion into full opening? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you're in for an orgasmically pleasing week, Aries. Lots of things are going to change into something else through the process of eruption or sprouting or bursting forth. I bet you'll dream of undersea volcanoes spurting.
[how can you not love freewill]

[Seen]
Bella,
The Counterfeiters
(and Batman - but I don't think the summer blockbuster needs more hype)

[Pages]
The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison [take 2]

[Passages]
"[transported] vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on volatile plant compounds that subtly add up to taste and food value...a trade-off that amounts to 'Give me every vegetable in every season, even it if tastes like a cardboard picture of its former self."
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver

[Yum]
Griffintown café has re-opened and offers Friday night jazz and brunch on the weekends...

Top Five - the game(s) begin

The latest "project". email yours [miswitlife@gmail.com] if they aren't listed below (and any corrections) -(yes, fiction and non)...

NF
100 years of solitude
Confederency of Dunces
A Fine Balance
Children of the Circus
Fugitives Pieces

JC
Zorba the Greek
The Enormous Room
The Sun also Rises
Jules et Jim
Being and Time

HM
Big Sur
Like Water for Chocolate
Fall on your Knees
Fugitive Pieces
Amazing Adventures of Cavalier & Klay

One Liners

[Geek Chic]
Summertime in Paris - a mix of painting, sculpture and photography currently at The Parisian Laundry

[Creatively speaking]
Who are you? What's your Type?

[Seen]
My Blueberry Nights - simple, well-acted story about longing.

[Passages]
"If every product containing corn or soybeans were removed from your grocery store, it would look more like a hardware store. Alarmingly, the lightbulbs might be naked, since many packaging materials also now contain cornstarch."
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver

[On the road]
My first "clip" pedal ride took me from the south shore, to Fort Chambly, along the Richelieu river, through the farms of St. Phillipe and back across the escalade bride 6hours later in the pouring rain. A long, somewhat exhausting ride, about 125 KM in total, a new level in endurance for my aging self :-).

[Up Next]
La fête Bio Paysanne at the TOHU

[Yum]
The summer round of dinners now includes Lafayette's - a classic on the edge of the Village, "gooey" pizza and possibly the largest plate of poutine I have seen (all at one table ....ooph) was the pitcher of beer really a good idea gang?? Here's a great description from an older CTV piece:
"LAFAYETTE'S RESTAURANT HAS BEEN HERE AT THE CORNER OF STE-CATHERINE EAST & CARTIER FOR 30 YEARS. IT'S A GREASY SPOON IN A GRIMEY AREA OF THE CITY. AND A SURVIVOR."

'nuff said.