Aug 30 2004
The August monkey is Something Weird: The Musical.
I have a life-long affliction — apparently not uncommon — of having songs I hate pop into my head, where they reside for hours, sometimes days, at a time. In particular, I’m afflicted by really old songs from the 70s. Currently playing is one of my longest standing […]
Aug 27 2004
It’s time for the August monkey: Something Weird: The Musical!
In other words, tell us something weird about yourself that involves music. I don’t just mean the normal weird things, like that you’re a closet Barry Manilow fan or you lost your virginity at an Alice Cooper concert. Tell us the really bizarre stuff. Take me, […]
Aug 24 2004
Bill informed me today that the car I sold her two years ago has finally died. It was a 1987 Volkswagen Jetta that I had owned since about 1999.
The Old Whore was my second Jetta in a row. I bought the first one in 1996 when the company I worked for moved to Old […]
Aug 22 2004
After riding our bicycles all the way from Longueuil to Isle des Soeurs and back, M and I had built up a powerful appetite. It was a beautiful September evening (too bad it’s still August), so the only solution was to spark up the barbeque.
Fortunately, we had stopped into La Maison du Rôti yesterday afternoon […]
Aug 18 2004
The zucchini saga continues. By now you’re probably getting rather tired of hearing about my abundance of the silly vegetable, but perhaps not. After all, I haven’t gotten tired of eating it!
Tonight we started with the last of the leftover curried zucchini soup (for the recipe, see the comments in the previous post about zucchini), […]
Aug 18 2004
I just saw a really dirty homeless guy urban camper on St. Catherine street, begging for money. He was holding a sign that said:
CATS DO NOT TASTE LIKE CHICKEN
Aug 17 2004
I accidently bought two bags of zucchini at the Jean-Talon Market on Sunday. So we’re going zucchini crazy. Sunday evening we had that caprese salad with grilled zucchini, and Monday night we had an awesome cream of zucchini soup (very mildly curried) along with a leek tart (made from market leeks).
Today I had leftover zucchini […]
