You want rigging? I’ll show you rigging. This ship is rigged to a fare-thee-well.
Summertime. . .and the living is easy. Fish are jumping and so are the fireworks.
Here are Montrealers missing out on the communal joy of the Beautiful Game. Big screen on the Quai de l’Horloge in the Old Port. One of countless such scenes in Montreal.
“Sing a song of sad young men, glasses full of rye; All the news is bad again, kiss your dreams good-bye.”
Happy 🍁 Canada Day. Party in the Old Port, for those so inclined.
“Hurray for regular hours! And, for the supervision of the spirit! Long live regimentation!" - Joseph, the protagonist in Lachine-born novelist Saul Bellow’s first novel Dangling Man. “Kowabunga!” - This bungee-jumping cat in Montreal’s Vieux-Port.
Canadiens watch party tonight at the Rialto in the Plateau. Bring your own pistachio latte.
The Cirque is back in town. Cirque du Soleil’s big top getting ready for Echo.
Sure. You pair the burrito with a bottle of Le Fat Bastard Cabernet Sauvignon.
Showtime on rue St-Paul. Three cats on violins riffing My Favourite Things.
McCord Museum’s exhibit on Montreal’s 1976 Olympics includes plenty of quality from cartoonist Terry Mosher (Aislin), as it would. To wit:
Trump makes faces you could pour on a waffle. Sorry, Ring Lardner.
Roi de Coeur, a film about the inmates escaping the asylum and taking over the village. Randomly came to mind.
Don’t sleep on the old Parc Avenue station in Montreal. Once a passenger rail terminus, now part of Montreal Metro. Still grand.