Just Walking Around The Hood

Our public transit, "The Blue Line Harlem" stop.

There is the street, parking lot and sign for Sally's Pancake House where Stagg's grandmother worked for years.

Isn't this a definitive looking American restaurant/bar room? We popped into a couple of places in our neighbourhood. Had a beef/sausage us jus dip sandwich with coleslaw and pasta salad. We also had a small pizza at Dino's.







I took this picture because there is Labatt's Blue, Canadian beer, at this place, funny. We've seen Labatt's Blue turning up at a lot of Chicago bars lately.

John Barton

I love these recording of Acting Shakespeare with John Barton...check them out...

I've posted this one with Patrick Stewart here before...



In 1960, along with Peter Hall, he co-founded the Royal Shakespeare Company where Barton was an active director for over 40 years. He has directed over 50 productions either on his own or as a collaborator with Sir Peter Hall and Trevor Nunn. Some landmark productions at RSC include 1969's Twelfth Night with Judi Dench as Viola, and the 1963/1964 sequence of Histories (with Peter Hall and Clifford Williams). In the RSC's 50th anniversary commemorations (2011) Barton's teaching is acknowledged as one of the lasting reason's for the company's success and he is regarded as one of the most influential directors of Shakespeare of his time.

Commercial Artist, R.I.P.

Kinkade was aware of his dual legacy, of course. “The No. 1 quote critics give me is, ‘Thom, your work is irrelevant.’ Now, that’s a fascinating, fascinating comment,” he said in the Guardian. “Yes, irrelevant to the little subculture, this microculture, of modern art. But here’s the point: My art is relevant because it’s relevant to 10 million people. That makes me the most relevant artist in this culture.” here

He showed us how it's done!

Around The House

I sure do love Stagg...we have a neighbour who gives us read and Stagg does errands for her. So...we had all this bread going stale so I made him a bread pudding. I'm not too into bread so I sure do love him. We learned this particular recipe when we took a cooking demonstration in New Orleans with Tuffy P and Mister Anchovy in 2007. It was fun to be able to make it using the stale bread. It came out marvelous tons of cinnamon!

I love tacos. I remember the first time i had tacos. it was a revelation. I was with my best friend and our high school friends. I was about 15 or 16 years old. I thought it was the greatest food I had ever tasted. We were on Vancouver Island.

We got the fire pit up and running. It took a bit to get back into the swing of the charcoal and fire wood..and the wind! But we're working it out. Stagg had also saved up tree refuse he found in the alleys over the winter. We also burned junk mail instead of buying a papershredder. We had hot dogs. Yum!

In-Flight Entertainment

The Happy Painter

A couple weeks ago I watched a documentary on Bob Ross, PBSs resident paint teacher. It was very good. He seemed like a pretty sweet guy. He made a lot of people feel like they could make art work, without pretensions or training.

Here is one of his painting lessons...

New Site For One Of My Bookclubs

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