Yesterday morning I made the trip to Bluesky Social. Lots of Liberals (me: centre-left) have moved to that fast-growing platform due to the rampant right-wing toxicity on Twitter (X). Women, especially, are fed up with being called... well, you can imagine the language.
The ever-industrious John Kenneth Muir, film/television critic and writer extraordinaire, has a new, and soon to come, web series called Abnormal Fixation. The premiere is scheduled for January 2025. By the way, the series has already won several awards.
I will make a point to check it out. Check out the trailer embedded above!
From Mr Muir's "About" description:
Welcome to the comedy-horror web series ABNORMAL FIXATION.
It's low budget AF. But also funny AF.
True believer Elvis Bragg has just one year to prove to his arch-nemesis, Mark Missouri, the existence of the paranormal, and win back his wife, Season. Fortunately, Elvis has an entourage of crazy friends to help him. A documentary film crew, led by Alyssa Jarvis, follows Elvis, and chronicles every triumph and disaster on his quest.
Cast: Alicia Martin (Season) Kathryn Muir (Alyssa), Chris Martin (Mark), John Kenneth Muir (Elvis); Trumbull McCoy (Bleeder), Corey Easterday (The Professor), Leslie Cossor (Dr. Carroll), Kim Breeding-Mercer (Styles), Rachel Griffin (Natalee); Joel Muir (Ridley), Ethan Horton (Dave), Pauline Mae Allera (Chesa).
The Lulu Show LLC (c) (2024). Series created by John Kenneth Muir. Sound Mixed by Tony Mercer.
Early this evening I took a trip on the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission), the subway portion. I saw just one person wearing a poppy. The good news is there were two of us.
I could easily go into an essay here, long or short, about how the lack of poppy-wearing is an indicator of how seriously people respect the men and women who have fought, and continue to stand, for this great nation called Canada.
Hey! Don't miss that text message! That TicTok video cannot be missed!
Toronto has been continuing with a degree of mild temperatures, given that we're well into autumn. Apparently, Environment Canada has stated that this great city should get more of a winter this year than what we got last... which was, with the exception of a few dustings of snow and a week of very cold temps, nothing much.
Though I very much like this big city with its hustle, bustle, and flow, Toronto's beautiful "Annex" neighbourhood is an oasis of livability... which is probably why it's called "Toronto's Most Livable Neighbourhood".
There's something about walking along Walmer Avenue that makes me activate my camera. It's the scenic view in Toronto's beautiful "Annex" neighbourhood.
Okay, now I can spend forty-five minutes scrolling through movie titles on Amazon Prime, Kanopy, and Tubi before deciding it's too late to start a movie....
I heard the sad news yesterday about actress Teri Garr's passing after a long battle with multiple sclerosis — she was a few weeks shy of her 80 birthday.
Over the decades the actress and dancer would joke that she would receive more questions about her appearance on Star Trek ("Assignment: Earth") than any other of her career highlights.
However, Garr credited her quite-substantial guest role on that stellar series for really launching her career. The day after the original broadcast of "Assignment" she visited a popular LA jean store; a producer saw her, approached and said: "You were great in Star Trek last night." (Ms Garr's agent's telephone started ringing off the hook.)
Toronto had blue skies yesterday, but at times with dramatic patches. I was standing in an area below a flight path, which meant an aircraft would pass overhead every couple of minutes. Airliners were on their landing circuit to Toronto Pearson International Airport.
This 'civil aviation' nut would not let this pass: out came my trusty Canon.
Today I saw these behind the deli counter and I could not counter the powerful pull of such delicious-looking morsels of spicy-hot goodness — they are good, as they've had me before.
At a little past 2pm today — about an hour ago — I walked up Walmer Road from Bloor Street with my Tim Hortons coffee in hand. For a moment I popped out of my stupor, looked up, and saw a lovely fall street scene. Out came my Canon camera: well, it was hanging around my neck, so it was more a case of taking the lens cap off.
Toronto's "Annex" neighbourhood is pretty wonderful, especially this time of year.
This website/blog has now garnered over two million pageviews. What the?....
A few years ago a friend of mine told me that while he likes my blog and enjoys reading it, he finds my posts to be all over the place. "You should concentrate on one subject, like Star Trek." First of all, he would have meant the original show as it's the only one in the too-long chain that I know well enough to post regularly about, but even then there's no way I could write about one thing... like Star Trek. For one thing, I'm not quite a geek.
No doubt the source of a lot of those 'hits' is non-human.
"V'ger requests information!"
(It could be Voyager One. "The Queller Drive! No!")
Even worse: Nomad.
"Listen, M**********r, I did not create you! Go a-way!"
"I am the other. I am Tan Ru. Tan Ru. Nomad. Tan Ru!"
Today I picked up Michael Coren's new book, Heaping Coals - from Media Firebrand to Anglican Priest, and I'm raring to go!
His previous book, The Rebel Christ (2021), is excellent. Take it from this card-carrying atheist....
Postscript: My subway reading list tends to be non-fiction books, as they allow me to pop out at any time. With fiction I need to curl up: kinda hard to do on the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission). Oh, my subway reading right now is bouncing between Star Trek: The Making of The Trouble With Tribbles (1973, David Gerrold) and Room to Dream (2018, Kristine McKenna and David Lynch). Get this train moving!....
I've been looking forward to reading Michael Coren's new book, Heaping Coals - From Media Firebrand to Anglican Priest. The author is signing between 1 and 3pm today at Toronto's lovely St. James Cathedral (at 106 King Street East).
Unfortunately I had not known about today's event till this morning, and there's no way to shift my schedule at this late juncture. But that won't stop me from buying Heaping Coals... which has been my intent since first hearing about the book months ago.
It's October 1st, or the 1st of October; just three months to go before we hit 2025. My dad was right: After this then teen complained one day about how fast time was going, he said something that gains more and more traction as I get older... I wish it did have more "traction", instead of sliding ahead uncontrollably at warp speed.
"If you think life is going fast now, wait till you hit twenty. Every time you turn around another year has gone."
I just wish Scotty would pipe up with: "Captain, the engines canna take it!"
