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Yesterday we looked for a new fall/mild-winter coat for Andrew, beginning with the thrift store and a clothing swap held in Trinity Bellwoods Park, but neither planned out for him and he was too tired to move on to the menswear store downtown. I did get rid of some older stuff that was taking up closet space, and scored some smaller things (a beaded tank top, a bra, a grey jersey cocoon dress/tunic and a long grey cabled scarf), and picked my new thrift-store coat (from last weekend) from the dry cleaners.
After we got home I baked some cupcakes. I’d been wishing for a few weeks to test advice I’d seen online, that if you want to skip a few steps while still making something that tastes from-scratch, you can upgrade a cake mix by adding one more egg than called for in the instructions on the box, and substituting melted butter for vegetable oil and milk for water. I also added extra vanilla. The results are decent enough to be edible without icing, so I call it a win.
Posted another chapter of 1983 last night. This photo is somewhat relevant.
Today I looked around the Dufferin Mall between shopping errands — apparently Rose Gold Everything is still popular, but Gold Gold is also back. Also I saw a lot of red shoes on the shelves, but as yet not on any feet. Was tempted by a small plate with a flamingo on it, but had no reason to buy it (I think it was a jewelry stand). Did buy a red coffee mug from the dollar store, and the cats have been enjoying the brown paper it came wrapped in.
After we got home I baked some cupcakes. I’d been wishing for a few weeks to test advice I’d seen online, that if you want to skip a few steps while still making something that tastes from-scratch, you can upgrade a cake mix by adding one more egg than called for in the instructions on the box, and substituting melted butter for vegetable oil and milk for water. I also added extra vanilla. The results are decent enough to be edible without icing, so I call it a win.
Posted another chapter of 1983 last night. This photo is somewhat relevant.
Today I looked around the Dufferin Mall between shopping errands — apparently Rose Gold Everything is still popular, but Gold Gold is also back. Also I saw a lot of red shoes on the shelves, but as yet not on any feet. Was tempted by a small plate with a flamingo on it, but had no reason to buy it (I think it was a jewelry stand). Did buy a red coffee mug from the dollar store, and the cats have been enjoying the brown paper it came wrapped in.
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Date: 2018-09-30 11:42 pm (UTC)From:What's that from?
Off-topic, but S.Z. Sakall just showed up in something I'm watching and I don't ever think I've seen him in color before.
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Date: 2018-10-01 05:34 am (UTC)From:Neat! What are you watching?
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Date: 2018-10-01 05:51 am (UTC)From:I watched Romance on the High Seas (1948), an MGM musical starring Doris Day in her film debut. It's delightful. She's delightful. Funny, lively, playing a kind of version of herself as the big-band singer catapulted into glamorous society, she's fresh-faced and scrappy and nothing like the anodized hyper-virgin of her famous comedies with Rock Hudson: I understand even less how those happened or where those came from, watching her sing "Put 'em in a Box, Tie 'em with a Ribbon, and Throw 'em in the Deep Blue Sea." The plot is ridiculous; it's an excuse for people to have witty conversations and sing. The secondary couple are Janis Paige and Don DeFore and the supporting cast is all character players like Sakall, Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore. Day's best friend is Oscar Levant, in love with her and mostly manifesting it with self-negging lines like "I have all the seductive powers of a sedative." The movie has exactly one thing in it that I thought was really stupid (if you go to the trouble of securing the famous calypsonian Sir Lancelot, have him sing a song for God's sake, not just play backup for Jack Carson who may be the romantic lead but is not by any stretch of generosity a singer) and otherwise I think it held up. I laughed at most of its laugh lines. Several of them weren't even Levant's.
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Date: 2018-10-01 10:51 am (UTC)From:“The 1950s” seems too simple an explanation. Perhaps she or Hudson were being punished by some executive? A last gasp at reasserting the studio system?
I think she did another musical around this time called “Lullaby of Broadway,” also featuring Sakall (and Florence Bates) as backup.