It'll Never Fly

Kinda weird seeing these artifacts from your childhood entombed in glass cages.

I always was a little creeped out by the name of the Tickle Trunk.

Just wanted a photo to test blogging with flickr. This was from my trip to the Grey Cup last year. The following Monday and Tuesday after the game, my brother and I left Toronto and stopped in Hamilton to check out the CFL Hall of Fame. Since we were already in Hamilton, I wanted to check out Ivor Wynne Stadium as well. No one was there and one set of gates were wide open, so we wandered into one of the endzones and snapped a few photos to prove we were there. Can’t really tell from the photo, but there was a viciously cold wind blowing across the field that day.

Ever had one of those moments when you’re watching one of your favourite programs on TV, a big movie or television star is on screen, you look at their surroundings, and you’re like, “Hey, I’ve been there!”

Well, I had one of those moments two weeks ago while watching the programme Corner Gas on CTV HD. I was watching the episode entitled “Coming Distractions” when it came to the setting shot the show used to transition to the scene in the theatre. Lo and behold, that’s the very same theatre I frequent a couple times a week, which is less than a ten minute walk from home.

Maybe I shouldn’t be so surprised when that happens, considering they mainly film in a town not an hour’s drive away from the city, but I don’t care. It’s still pretty cool, nonetheless.

Maybe it’s because it’s shown nationally during prime time and has huge ratings. It’s not the same as Puttnam’s Prairie Emporium, which never left the studio AFAIK. And as cool as they are, local cable access channels don’t count either.

As for movies, I had it a few times watching Just Friends, but less so during The Messengers and not at all during Decoy.

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My apologies to Miss Judy Garland.