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Friday, October 31, 2025

Happy Halloween 2025

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"Trick or Treat!" Someone's trick or treating in the wrong neighbourhood! Be careful out there, kids!

'Archie Bunker' on That Important Difference

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"Respect is for the dead. The livin' need dough!" "LOL" is my only response.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

ReDVD: Magical Mystery Tour (The Beatles)

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A few years ago I found out that my Beatles-fan brother had not yet seen a certain 1967 television opus. I asked why he hadn't sought ou...
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A Forever Question: Ahead Warp Factor Nine

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“Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I have awaited a question." Sir. Why is the concept of time t...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Picturing: On the Road Is On the Table

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A friend of mine is a bit of a Jack Kerouac fan. After I told him I was reading On the Road , he said he preferred the author's next boo...

Book: Totally Tasteless (Richard Marson)

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Totally Tasteless ― The Life of John Nathan-Turner ― by Richard Marson Miwk Publishing Ltd. 2016 *** When John Nathan-Turne...
Monday, October 20, 2025

CD: UFO (Barry Gray)

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On Tuesday nights during the 1970/71 television season I was there with my parents in front of the 19-inch Zenith colour set tuned to Canada...

Picturing: Reopened Graveyard Shift Contact Sheet

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Reopening my 'Graveyard Shift' files a few years ago sent me back to 1985, as I reviewed photos, memos, call sheets, and sketches r...
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Sunday, October 19, 2025

Picturing: Me at the Graveyard Shift Workshop

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When we were young, spirited, energized, and full of stamina: while I was a few months into my second year of film school I was hired to des...
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Sunday Fun: Those Toronto Temps!

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As I write this it's a few minutes past 1pm. Here in downtown Toronto the temperature is currently sitting at 21 Celsius (70 Fahrenheit)...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

Flash Poem: Whose Flattery?

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How much is too much flattery? It depends on who it is you are flattering It might fly or lie flat. ___ 2017 Simon St. Laure...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Sunday Fun: Next Week's Big KFC Fight

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That's what I heard, folks, a few years ago. I was working on my laptop as the television smoked at my feet. "Next week's big K...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Blu-rays: Black Zero Titles of Four Ready to Go

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As noted on its website :   " Black Zero is a multimedia publisher specializing in Canadian experimental cinema from the 1960s to the ...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

NFB Film: Test Pilot (1957) — Starring James Doohan!

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The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has uploaded to YouTube a wonderful selection of their old film shorts. One such film, from 1957, is...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Athot for the Day: Strange Matter

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Cats are caught in that twilight zone between acting like a cat and being a cat.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Picturing: Finch Avenue West, Toronto, Early Evening

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My Canon EOS R100 camera data: ISO speed: 250 F-stop: f/5.6 Exposure time: 1/125
Sunday, September 28, 2025

Sunday Happiness: Toronto's Gleam & Sip Visited

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As I wrote on Sunday, August 31st, four weeks ago today, I stumbled upon a shop here in Toronto's beautiful "Annex" neighborh...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Battle of Britain 85th: Battle of Britain Day 1990

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The poster said all I had to know. On September 15, 1990, there would be a celebration to remember on the River Thames. That of "Battl...

Battle of Britain 85th: Book on the Battle

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The Battle of Britain - The Greatest Battle in the History of Air Warfare - by Richard Townshend Bickers Salamander Books L...

Battle of Britain 85th: Battle of Britain (1969)

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Battle of Britain  was a troubled feature film production complete with massive cost overruns and a shoot that seemed to have no end, this h...
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Simon St. Laurent
Welcome! RCAF Brat duty: St. Hubert, QC; CFB Greenwood, NS; CFB Baden–Soellingen, Germany; CFB Borden, ON. Now living in Toronto's beautiful "Annex" neighbourhood.
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