Simon St. Laurent
@simonstlaurent
Artist, cat-lover, and avid reader. Former film/tv tech, now customer service. Military brat, always! RCAF Station St. Hubert (QC), CFB Greenwood (NS), CFB Baden-Soellingen (Germany), CFB Borden (ON). Now living in Toronto.
How William Shakespeare might have addressed or described Pierre Poilievre.... "Thou art a boil, a plague sore." "Thy face is not worth sunburning." "He has not so much brain as earwax."
My website post from yesterday: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/07/late... Obituary: Jerry Goldsmith — The Toronto Sun, 7/23/04 "Early this morning I was reminded that the late great film composer Jerry Goldsmith died twenty-two years ago today. It seems like ten years ago."
My website post yesterday: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/07/memo... Memories: Special Apollo & Soyuz Launches of 1975 "This then space cadet looked forward to seeing the Saturn 1B rocket lift the Apollo space vehicle, but, again, the big draw for me, and many others, no doubt, was getting to...."
My website post (2 of 3) from Sunday: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/07/pict... Picturing: from Toronto's Beautiful "Annex" Streets When Toronto skies weren't yellow.
My website post (2 of 3) from last Sunday: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/07/pict... Picturing: Church of the Redeemer Sculpture Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
My website post yesterday: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/07/pict... Picturing: On a Music Video Shoot near Lake Erie
My new website post: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/07/pict... Picturing: On a Music Video Shoot near Lake Erie
My website post (2 of 2) today: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/07/pict... Picturing: Criterion Blu-ray of Desperate Living "A couple of days ago I remembered that Criterion's release of John Waters' 1977 flick Desperate Living has hit the shelves."
My website post (1 of 2) today: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/07/pict... Picturing: Church of the Redeemer Sculpture "On my walk back home from an errand today here in the great city of Toronto, I noticed a beautiful bronze sculpture outside the Church of the Redeemer."
My website post yesterday: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/06/sund... Sunday Fun: Morning Fun at Paupers Pub, Toronto
My new website post: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/06/sund... Sunday Fun: Morning Fun at Paupers Pub, Toronto
My website post from last Wednesday: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/06/flat... Flatscreen Last Night: Radio Days "Radio Days was released in early 1987, just when I was in my final couple of months of film school. Yeah, I missed it. My viewing was on tape-delay: about ten years later...."
My website post today: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/06/sund... Sunday Fun: Doctor Who on Blu-ray — I'm a Whovian "Is there a doctor in the house? Are there Doctors in the house? For all my claims that I left the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who in my youth...."
My website post (2 of 2) from yesterday: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/06/pict... Picturing: A Bottle of Cool Blue Gatorade 'A lovely client of mine brought me two bottles of Gatorade. I thanked her and said: "I've never had Gatorade before, but I remember when it first came out."'
My website post (1 of 2) from yesterday: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/06/its-... It's Canadian Armed Forces Day! Celebrating the Love! "The RCAF roundel above is a shoulder patch from my RCAF 100th Anniversary Hoodie, which I ordered from the wonderful Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's...."
My website post (2 of 2) from last Tuesday: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/06/blog... Blog Post: Amazing Stories, Not! (x3) Steven Spielberg's great television misfire.
My website post (1 of 2) from last Tuesday: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/06/a-ba... How We Peg Things: A Banana in the Head
My website post last evening: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/05/pict... Picturing: Great Lakes Freighter Saguenay (Toronto)
My website post from Friday: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/05/pict... Picturing: Through an Archway at Oxford University
My website post (1 of 2) last Wednesday: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/05/pict... Picturing: A Lemon-Yellow Sports Car Parked on Bloor
My website post this evening: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/05/film... Film Design: An Irwin Allen Panel Comes to Life "If you are familiar with the old Irwin Allen television shows Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964-1968), Lost in Space (1965-1968), or The Time Tunnel (1966-1967), you...."
My website post (4 of 4) yesterday: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/05/read... Reading: Diary of a Low-Born Cleric (Michael Coren) "Diary of a Low-Born Cleric (2026) is already shaping up to be yet another enjoyable and enlightening read from Michael Coren." #book #books @revmichaelcoren.bsky.social
My website post (3 of 4) yesterday: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/05/pict... Picturing: Toronto Fire Truck Speeding Up Spadina Rd
My website post (2 of 4) yesterday: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/05/pict... Picturing: From Inside Paupers Pub, Toronto The breaky was great.
My website post (1 of 4) yesterday: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/05/pict... Picturing: About to Enter Paupers Pub This Morning Toronto's great pubs: "Paupers", in The Annex, being one of them.
My new website post: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/05/shoo... Shooting with a Mitchell Mk II 35mm Reflex in Studio
My new website post: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/05/chat... Chat Chat: Do You Hoomans Ever Shut TF Up? Yes, cats.
My new website post: www.simonstlaurent.ca/2026/05/sund... Sunday Fun: Working Geek at the Computer Desk "John Kenneth Muir, a 'film and television' critic and writer I much admire, once posted a blog piece looking at his home office. I was impressed by his large collection of film/tv...."