Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Random fun things
It is Shark Week after all.
So apparently I owe Heather a morning for the time she spent watching this little animation short and others from the National Film Board of Canada. Naturally this caused me no end of amusement and pleasure. It’s been posted in my blog before, but I just thought I’d share it again.
Log Driver’s Waltz, John Weldon, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
I’ve always enjoyed the tune. It’s one of those melodies that just sticks in your head. Here are a few more that I grew up with that you can waste time with.
The Egg, Jean-François Pouliot & Robert Bélisle, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
The Big Snit, Richard Condie, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
The Cat Came Back, Cordell Barker, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
Had a good time with tonight’s movie meetup at the Terrace Theater to see Julie & Julia.
It’s a movie about two women, from two different times but looking for the same thing: something to do. Meryl Streep puts in an excellent performance as Julia Child, and at points you forget that it’s not Julia Child on the screen.
It’s a lot of fun seeing Julie and Julia go through much the same experiences as the movie switches back and forth between the two characters. Whether their lives really ran as parallel as it seemed in the movie or if it was just done that way for the movie, I don’t know.
Julie & Julia is a very enjoyable movie to watch, with lots of humour in it. Definitely worth seeing.
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Today I ventured out to the downtown Taco Boy for the the Social Media Club (Charleston) happy hour. It was a nice fun and informal get-together with a surprisingly diverse crowd of people.
It was my first trip to Taco Boy, and it turned out pretty good. The Taco Boy is dog friendly, something I wish I had known earlier. I’m sure the dogs would have loved to go meet everybody.
There was a pretty good turn out of people at today’s event. There were a few familiar faces, but also a lot of new ones. It was nice meeting new people, and also meeting some of the people I’ve met on Twitter.
Jared told me the guy in the hat is the TwitPic guy.
