"Americans can't be whipped!"--How the West Was Won
Today I used our Metropass for the second-last time, went to Shoppers Drug Mart and bought a Presto card. (The last time was later when I went to Ali Baba's and bought falafel wrap takeout. I've been getting their Tuesday special so often that they're getting to know me there!) Now I'll be able to get an annual subscription and even get the ODSP discount.
While I was at Shoppers Drug Mart I also renewed my Cipralex prescription and had another 20-minute wait. This time I went to Wells Hill Park and read more of the Polish history book. I've finally got to the all too exciting 20th century part.
Saturday night I downstreamed the Cinerama western How the West Was Won, a guilty pleasure of mine. The HD picture was so crisp that I could often see the seams between the picture's three sections! Gregory Peck is amusingly cast against type as the gambler. George Peppard is so (uncharacteristically) good in the Civil War sequence John Ford directed, and so weak in the rest of the movie, that he's like two different actors! Great musical score by Alex North. Of course, Jimmy Stewart was too old for Carroll Baker...
Sunday was the Classic Book Club, where we discussed Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I argued that Jekyll is actually worse than Hyde: while Hyde acts evil because it's his nature, Jekyll makes a free choice to turn into someone he knows will do bad things, while maintaining "plausible deniability"!
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