THE FLY

"God, don't let it out!"--THE FLY

The weather is pretty hot these days.  It's a bit hard to sleep at night.  I've noticed that the potatoes have really taken off this year. (They're suited to wet springs.)

This afternoon I went to the Chapters at John & Richmond (near the Scotiabank cinema) and bought RIGHTEOUS MINDS, which my Non-Fiction Book Club Meetup will be talking about in three days, and GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL, which we'll be talking about next month.  Time for some speed reading!

This evening I went to see the original 1958 version of THE FLY, with Vincent Price and Herbert Marshall in co-starring roles. (Script by future bestselling novelist James Clavell.) It was pretty creepy.  The film was set in a MAD MEN-like bourgeois household, in Montreal of all places!

This was part of a week of monster movies they're showing at the Revue.  I was joined by Mark and Jeannie of the Classic Movies Meetup.  Afterward the weather was so nice that we walked back to the Dundas West station instead of waiting for the streetcar.