Thursday, 18 September 2025
KitKat Ghost Toast
Pavillon du 9e art
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Windy and Autumnal September Day
It is getting a bit warmer and it should get borderline Indian summery soon (albeit we did not really have a frosty day), however, I cannot complain too much, as we have been blessed so far with a very autumnal September. It has been suitably cool and we even had two days ago a very windy day, enough so there was a yellow warning of winds. Nothing to worry about, it was just really nice and it allowed me to wear for the very first time a thick jumper, because temperatures had gone down with the wind. We had a perfectly autumnal September day and I was in seasonal heaven.
Le Parc Chopin modernisé
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Cat’s Eye
Well, I didn't expect that. Have you ever heard of the manga series Cat's Eye? It's a caper series about a trio of sisters who are also cat burglars, one of them in love with a young police officer who is bound to catch their cat burglars alter ego. I never read it, but when I was a kid I did watch its anime adaptation. Growing up on Japanese anime, I was bound to come up with it, but I enjoyed it far less than other animes. In fact, I borderline hate watched it at times: too over the top, even for an anime, with a bumbling cop heroic antagonist who was seriously stupid, burglars who did not wear gloves... Well, I wasn't a fan. A few years later, I rewatched a few episodes on YouTube, and frankly it didn't change my mind. Of all the Japanese cartoons we young Quebeckers had, Cat's Eye was one of the silliest. So why am I blogging about it tonight? Because it got adapted again. You can see the trailer below. I might give this one a chance, if only because it's a new adaptation and I (re)discovered recently with Wolfie that I enjoy Japanese cartoons. Worst case scenario, this Cat's Eye will be as bad as the 80s one. Anyway, did any of you ever watched the old anime or read the manga? Tell me in the comments.
Question existentielle (399)
Une question existentielle inédite jusqu'ici, enfin je crois:
-Qu'aimez-vous faire en septembre?
J'aime faire bien des choses en septembre, mais je suis curieux de lire vos réponses.
Pot Roast
Le programme du Salon du Livre
Monday, 15 September 2025
"Bokke"
A few days ago, my wife and I were on our way to pick up Wolfie from school when I saw a man walking on the other side of the street. He was wearing a green hoodie with the words Bokk printed on it. So I recognised right away the nickname of the Springboks. I was happy that I picked it up. I know nothing about rugby, far too little for my taste in fact, but at least I know about the Springboks. It's sort of my team, even though I don't follow rugby: my father-in-law is South African and he is of course a massive Springboks supporter. So is his son. Therefore out of family solidarity, I support the South African team. To my wife's dismay, as she is English and, well, she supports the English team. So anyway, I did not shout "Go Bokke!" to him. Maybe I should have had.
Le Viennois de Chicoutimi
Sunday, 14 September 2025
The Manchurian Candidate... again
Des cadeaux pour Wolfie
Saturday, 13 September 2025
Kidult
My wife sent me this YouGov article about kidult behaviours and activities, thinking it sounds very much like me. In case you don't know (and I sure did not until I rea the article), a kidult is an adult whose interests are ore aligned to the ones of a child, among other things his medias consumption. Yes, I agree, it does fit me, but I always thought it was due to my natural nostalgic temperament. Because I am nostalgic, guilty as charged. In case you haven't noticed. Anyway, maybe this blog is an extension of my so called kidulting. Be that as it may, kidult is the word of the day. And on a final note, I am wondering what are your thoughts on kidulting. Please leave a comment.
Pain saveurs d'automne
Friday, 12 September 2025
A perfect autumn evening
I don't care what people say, we are in autumn, even though the equinox is stil a week and a half away. Our family had the opportunity to appreciate it during our evening walk. It was, in fact, a perfectly perfect autumn evening. It was a little bit after six o'clock, sunny, but the air was chilly enough so we needed warm clothes. It felt and smelled autumnal around us. Comfy clothes, comfy weather, the sun about to set... I just felt great.
Les requins du Saint-Laurent
J'avais blogué sur le sujet le mois dernier: il y a des requins blancs dans le Saint-Laurent. Le 9 septembre, on sortait un autre article sur le sujet dans la grosse Presse. Outre cela, on donne quelques conseils de prudence, comme par exemple de ne pas aller nager près des phoques. Les phoques faisant partie du régime alimentaire des grands blancs, ils pourraient confondre le nageur et l'animal. Et si ça arrivait, le nageur dirait vite phoque. (Pardon pour le calembour atroce, je ne pouvais pas résister.) Non mais blague à part, je trouve cette nouvelle fascinante. Ce qui m'inquiète, ce n'est pas tant la présence de requins blancs dans le fleuve, mais c'est le réchauffement des eaux qui est la cause de leur présence.
Medieval Fantasy Read
Arc-en-ciel (2)
Thursday, 11 September 2025
9/11... again
I always commemorate the anniversary of 9/11. I am doing it this year again with this post, although I don't write long posts about it. From my thoughts and memories about it, read this post from 2008 and that post from 2009. However, I will say one of thing of what happened in the USA since. On the 11th of September 2001, democracy in the West and in the USA in particular was attacked. Islamic fundamentalism showed its ugly nihilistic head. Sadly, nowadays democracy in the US is falling apart, not because of an alien force of Islamifascists, like almost a quarter of of a century ago, but because of the Xian fascists who took power. So yeah, I am feeling a tad cynical and gloomy today, thinking about it.