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Aug. 22nd, 2011 10:22 amMy life is in danger of becoming too boring to think about, much less write about. I mean, I can only talk so many times about how Kai is complaining at me about how I'm not sitting down so she can curl up next to me. Although today I expect she's complaining because it is WET and GREY and COLD outside, after yesterday's bright warm humid summertime. (Felt like being back in DC, only about ten degrees cooler.)
Yesterday we walked downtown to see The Secret of Kells at a local artsy theatre (very very pretty, good storyline, and Aisling makes me want to play Changeling). Then we checked out a Surrealist exhibit at the Vancouver Museum of Modern Art, by which I continue to be less than impressed. They did have a couple of (minor) Magrittes, at least. And on the fourth floor thay were showing La Jetèe, which I'd not seen, so we sat and watched that. It's a half-hour... film? Narration over a series of still images, and was the inspiration for Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys.
After that we hung out on the beach and read for awhile, and had dinner at a reasonably tasty thai place with awful service.
Overall, a pretty good day.
The rain it raineth on the justJack Layton, head of Canada's New Democratic Party (aka 'the pinko socialist leftists,' currently the Official Opposition), died of cancer this morning. (Layton's last letter to Canadians.) I suppose the weather is Vancouver's way of mourning.
And also on the unjust fella;
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust steals the just's umbrella.
--Ogden Nash
Yesterday we walked downtown to see The Secret of Kells at a local artsy theatre (very very pretty, good storyline, and Aisling makes me want to play Changeling). Then we checked out a Surrealist exhibit at the Vancouver Museum of Modern Art, by which I continue to be less than impressed. They did have a couple of (minor) Magrittes, at least. And on the fourth floor thay were showing La Jetèe, which I'd not seen, so we sat and watched that. It's a half-hour... film? Narration over a series of still images, and was the inspiration for Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys.
After that we hung out on the beach and read for awhile, and had dinner at a reasonably tasty thai place with awful service.
Overall, a pretty good day.