Weekend Report

[moon_custafer]

Saturday — went to the Friends of the Merrill holiday party*, came home to find out there’d been an anti-immigrant demo for which I’d failed to attend the counter-demo. These were the gilets-jaunes people who held coordinated demos in multiple locations. Very worrying.

Today— Andrew had asked me to find a base for his crystal ball, so I went to Spatula City Tap Phong kitchenware the Dufferin Mall, where I bought a stainless-steel cat-food bowl with an anti-slip rubber base, and it is supporting the crystal most elegantly and securely.

Don came by, bringing pies, and I cooked some chicken and we three had dinner and talked about stuff, mostly pulp fiction.

*I wore the green cloche which is now mine— last weekend, after complaining about my obsession with Charlotte Ritter’s hat despite not having seen any actual episodes of Babylon Berlin, I remembered the beige cloche my mother gave me a winter or two back and dyed it with food colouring, sewing on a couple of rosettes (hair ties) to cover the spot where the dye took unevenly.

Comments

[readinggeek451]

That is a very fetching hat!

[moon_custafer]

Thanks. I had to dye it in two sessions to get the colour mostly even.

[sovay]

I wore the green cloche which is now mine

That is a pretty excellent hat. It looks like it matches your eyes.

[moon_custafer]

They’re usually a changeable blue-grey, but thanks!

[heliopausa]

Are these gilets-jaunes who have seized on the idea of wearing such from the recent events in France? Are they pretending to support the French demos, while being anti-immigrant themselves? If so, they sound horrible.

I'm very impressed with the hat, and your cleverness in contriving it.

[moon_custafer]

I think so. I don’t know to what extent they identify with the French demos and to what extent they simply draw inspiration from them; I’m mainly worried that they sound a bit more coordinated than the Proud Boys, PEGIDA, Sons of Odin, etc, who’ve been doing these kinds of things for the past while.

[thisbluespirit]

Excellent cloche hat! Very nice.

[sabotabby]

Babylon Berlin is mainly good on aesthetic grounds (if you watch it, don't expect any of the character motivations to make any sense, which is a bad thing in a mystery) but that hat is amazing.

I'm feeling unhappy that the fash caught us all off guard. I mean, I had shit to do that day and probably wouldn't have been able to make it, but I could have sounded the alarm.

[moon_custafer]

I’ve seen a number of crime films actually from that era, so I worry if I watched it I’d just spend the whole time comparing-and-contrasting.

[sabotabby]

You would, and your comparison would not likely be favourable.

[moon_custafer]

Inspector Lohmann is still the Weimar-era homicide detective of my heart!