The Toronto Star is running a story on the resignation of Solicitor-General Lawrence MacAulay. The man pushed one of his underlings to fund his brother’s college, and the ethics commission decided that that was going too far. You can tell that The Star thinks this is a serious issue by the name they gave the accompanying image: macaulay_culkin011030.jpg. Yeah, maybe we were all thinking it, but come on, guys…
We saw The Ring last night. It was probably the scariest movie I’ve seen in a long long time. To get the full experience, try not to read anything about it before you go. It’s not like there’s a big twist at the end, but these things are always scarier when you have no idea what they’re going to throw at you next. AngelA had a good idea for this type of movie. They need to install voting buttons so that halfway through the movie the audience can decide if they want the plot to continue or if they want the movie to shift so that the main characters stop what they’re doing and become funny bank robbers who are being hunted by Martin Lawrence, reprising his role in Black Knight. I managed to sleep last night, but I don’t know if that’s because we talked about the movie afterwards or in spite of that. Talking about it helps defuse the whole thing, because you have another human being to help expose the fact that it was only a movie and things like that don’t usually happen in real life, but on the other hand, it leaves you with memories of scenes that you’d totally forgotten (or blocked out), and connections that you didn’t realize at the time that make the whole thing even scarier. Anyway, we’ve seen 3 thrillers in a row now, so we’re going to stick to stuff like The Country Bears for a while. We’ve earned it. Ok, not the Bears, but something equally harmless.
I haven’t left for work yet (it’s 6:30, so it’s not like I’m slacking), but my newly fixed Palm (still working!) tells me that the same person has booked me for meetings at 9am and 1pm, my absolute favourite meeting times. Someone else has booked me for a meeting at the same time as an annual celebration with free drinks, and yeah, I’ve got to work at TVA tonight, but hey, free drinks don’t happen very often. This will be the best day ever.