Broken Area

Four years ago today we had our fire. The one referenced in our tag line 'We're back, and our dryer is on fire'. In retrospect it is sort of funny, and I am still very cautious about the lint trap.

12-3 was an inside job man, wake up Sheeple!

Hey, the term is over. Well, basically over anyway, so we have that going for us as well.

Weird thing yesterday, while I was in a meeting our university president resigned. A former president, and French department colleague of Isabelle's will take over.

I think Isabelle should get a smock. I also quite like saying the word 'smock'.

I googled where Hawaiian shirts come from!

Jon did the music at a school basketball game to much acclaim.

I'm going to make eggnog.

Isabelle likes beetles but didn't want to hear the Beatles.

So we went shopping a day early as Isabelle has a thing tomorrow.

Yesterday she went to an art exhibit that was all video. It doesn't sound like something I would have liked much, though the story of the cow that fell down the hole is compelling. The shite and black lines, not so much.

I saw a box of water for sale at the grocery store. Western Civilization is nearly dead.

The thing she is off to is an art show. She made a bunch of small paintings for it and some other stuff. She'll be at a table selling stuff with friends and that is the important thing really.

Oh, Jon came along on this one as he had a PD Day today. Indeed every kid in town was off school. Jon gave us our title today.

Great title eh? It has literally nothing to do with this episode.

Hey, it's snowing. Well, it was bound to happen at some point. Still, it is supposed to warm up again, so no worries as of yet.

MADDIE IS VISITING. This is outstanding.

We talked about what food we would eat only by ourselves because of embarrassment. This is inspired by a thread over at AVClub. Pickle juice, logos and entire frozen pizzas come to mind. For Jon, it is lamb....

Isabelle has some cool ideas for art projects with Jon's class, I look forward to hearing about how it goes.

We ended by talking about podcasting in general and of course our recently departed friend Bob. If you would like to give to the fund for his son's education, click here.

I'm not sure how much we're going to go into this (I am typing this an hour or so before we go shopping) but many of you know that we lost a dear friend two days ago, Bob Goyetche. Bob was one of my co hosts on Best Episode Ever and the Marshall McLuhan Variety Hour, and he was really one of the original Canadian podcasters. More importantly though he was our friend, and you have likely heard us speak of him before.

Bob had a great impact on our lives, even though we both never spent that much time in the same room with him.

Then we ran into Sgt. Wilson's Army Show.

Finally we had what I think was a pretty interesting discussion of art and manga/anime.

Jon came along today as he didn't feel like hanging out with his friends today. It was nice having him along for a change, as he hasn't come shopping since the summer.

It's still crazy warm, very odd. I'm not mowing the lawn, no matter what.

I'm a boring boring boring jerk.

Isabelle is nominating one of her profs for a prestigious art award, which I really hope she gets because she deserves it.

It's getting close to Halloween, though, this is not a scary episode. Look, maybe it is, I'm writing this before we go out.

I dunno, maybe we talked about emails or something.

OK, we did get a pumpkin, and candy of course, who knows how many kids will come over, I honestly don't know, it varies so much year to year. We have enough candy for 90, which ought to be enough.

We wondered whatever happened to UNICEF boxes at Halloween in Canada, it turns out that collecting for UNICEF at Halloween in the US is still a thing, but now in Canada it isn't. We both have fond memories of collecting money for kids from afar.

We then got into what may be our oddest discussion ever. We listed every 'ism' you could think of (though I think we missed 'fascism' oddly).

My last one and then the class takes over.

Music 'Highway' by Gone For Good

You know, it is cold today. In a month this will seem warm, but 2C seems pretty cold today. Indeed, our car claimed it was 18, but eventually the car figured things out.

Isabelle and I both had weird dreams last night, and we shared them, I think mine is more disturbing....

Isabelle did a workshop on using an app called Pixlr to make cool art. I'm really impressed with the work she has done with it.

Are you as tired as I am of people adding unnecessary padding to videos and blog posts? Let's do something about it. What? I have no idea......

Isabelle saw a movie that sounded like it came from her life. I have to agree, it sounded pretty close to how she described her life as a teenager.

Zebras and cows, their saga continues.

The Germans, they're back.

Music 'Today' by Dan Brodbeck and Corey Thompson

Not what's on your mind, it's what's on your behaviour you heretic.

Music 'Elvis Lives' by Skinner