Last weekend I was watching the penultimate season of Mad Men. The last episode ended with Bert Cooper's ghost singing "The Best Things in Life Are Free."
Wednesday I finally met Bev. The weather was miserable that day, and she emailed me to ask if I wanted to delay, but I insisted. I met her at the Aroma almost across Yonge St. from Dr. Hassan's office. I mentioned that song "The Best Things in Life Are Free," and suggested that while friendship doesn't cost money, it carries a different price: sometimes you have to work at it. When I went to see her in that weather, I was working at our friendship. (Imagine how much work love requires!)
Yesterday I met Dr. Hassan. I had more to talk about than usual, what with the Captain Snark forum and the History Discussion Group. Afterward I had an egg sandwich at What a Bagel! on Eglinton Avenue West. (That's a good lunch place.)
This evening I saw the silent Mary Pickford vehicle Mistress Nell as part of the silent film festival, at the Carleton. As Restoration actress-Royal mistress Nell Gwyn, MP got to stretch her range as a sly fox outwitting her romantic rival.
I belong to this Facebook group about the US after 1940 where someone was complaining about someone posting pornish images, so someone else posted a Marilyn Monroe swimsuit photograph and asked "Do I offend you?" Getting into the spirit I posted Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" and Goya's clothed and naked Majas. It turned out that one of the organizers loves art and she sent me a chat message encouraging more of this! So I've posted Joseph Wright's painting of the bird being sacrificed in the experimental air pump, that Dutch painting of Jesus facing the High Priest, and several Renoirs. I'm making a good impression there.
I'm now about halfway through At the Back of the North Wind. It's an amazing children's book, which starts out as fantasy but soon takes an unexpectedly realistic turn.
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