Our purple lilacs are having a good year.
In other news, Deb's only medical appointment this week is with her anaesthetist at Leamington Hospital, on Wednesday morning. Her surgery is fast approaching, and we are trying to get as much done in the basement as possible before she finds herself short one arm for at least six weeks.
I have made some progress playing Syberia 3, though the game has yet to engage me. It is tedious, and not that user friendly. So far all of the play areas have been confining ones; hospital rooms, a crowded indoor market, a small outdoor area in winter. The best part of the first game was the train, getting it to run and then being transported to new destinations. So far there isn't much to look forward to.
With the Criterion Channel working fine for us using Roku, we are officially becoming movie buffs once again. By coincidence we each chose a movie from 1933 recently (see my last blog entry). Deb chose "Baby Face," starring Barbara Stanwyck. She was 26 when she made this film, but looks around 19 or 20 years of age. She plays a young woman who uses her good looks and her body to quickly get to the top of the ladder in a large insurance and banking company. Being a pre-code film, it pulls no punches on how she achieves success, leaving several train wrecks behind her as she climbs. She looks totally ravishing and seductive, and it is hard to believe she is an actress acting out a role; she seems to town the character she is portraying, and though we might not agree with her methods, considering her background (Dad used her as a prostitute since age 14 in his beer hall right across from a factory in Erie, Pennsylvania) we are mostly rooting for her along the way. Only when she finally abandons someone she should have stayed and supported does she realize what has been wrong with her methods. Alas, it is too late. Great stuff!
My film choice for this week is called "The Adventures of a Dentist," very strange black comedy from Russia, in 1965. The film sometimes plays as if it from the 1940s (it is in b & w, too), sometimes as a Fellini film, and other times like a buster Keaton film, as a dentist with a magic touch becomes the most popular man in the entire city where he works. He takes painless dentistry to a whole new level. Soon other dentists in town have no patients, and some are forced to leave. Alas, one day his magic deserts him. He stops practicing and becomes a teacher, until a crisis forces him to take up the forceps once more. There are some very funny moments, and some very bizarre ones. All in all it is a very intriguing attempt at film making, and seems to be in a category all its own. Rare and quite fine.
The Town of Amherstburg is changing. We now have a small plant-based restaurant in town, and a cafe with exceptional coffee with views to the river and park system. It doubles as a camper trailer sales room. The trailers must be seen to be believed. We ended up there today and I had no camera with me. We will be back! And just across the street, opening July 1st, is downtown Amherstburg's first brewery and taproom. We now have three reasons to ride our bikes into town this summer!
Mapman Mike
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