Sue! I keep meaning to ask you - my parents are visiting Halifax this summer, are there any can't miss places they need to get to that wouldn't be on a tour (they're taking some kind of package tour for like a week and then renting a car and doing their own thing for another)? Especially vegan/vegan-friendly restaurants. And quilt shops.

I thought maybe it was being a Jeopardy contestant! And didn;t you get your hair cut on tv?

All true! Maybe I should double down on IMDB instead of trying to get off it.

I now have two fewer teeth. No pain at all. Now waiting for prescription which I'll need when the shots wear off.

Yay tommy! I read that as "fever teeth" and wondered if that was an expression I didn't know. Then re-read.

I want to be on vacation again. Dang. Though I did just book a trip to DC for the weekend before Memorial Day weekend. I get to meet my friend's baby! And...have to run 11 miles in DC May weather. Uh oh

All true! Maybe I should double down on IMDB instead of trying to get off it.

You ARE a celebrity!

Excellent, tommy!

I am asleep. Maybe taking that antihistamine wasn't such a good idea.

Sue! I keep meaning to ask you - my parents are visiting Halifax this summer, are there any can't miss places they need to get to that wouldn't be on a tour (they're taking some kind of package tour for like a week and then renting a car and doing their own thing for another)? Especially vegan/vegan-friendly restaurants. And quilt shops.

Are they just doing Halifax? Or more of the province.

This is probably the best (and only purely) vegan resto in town.

enVie [link]

Vegan friendly

Wooden Monkey [link]

Humani-T [link]

I will ask my vegan friend for other recommendations.

Quilt shops...hmmm. I will ask around about that.

I'm not sure, Sue. Probably the province. Thanks!

Glad to hear no pain, tommyrot. May it continue.

Embrace your fame, Jesse!

I have a story about my close call with celebrity. In 1986, Sean Penn and Christopher Walken were filming At Close Range in Franklin TN. There's a scene set in a strip club. The director wanted it to be authentic, so he decided to cast a real stripper to play the dancer. He sent casting people out to a local strip club, the Classic Cat in Nashville, where I'd been dancing for two years at that time. They showed up, talked to the manager, and rounded up three girls: "Jessie", "Amber" and me. It was easy to see they were going for three classic "types" for the director to choose from: Amber was a honky-tonk girl, big hair and lots of makeup, Jessie was a girl-next-door, natural blonde and curvy, and I was slender and pale and black-haired, yer basic European model. They got us to pose for photos and then they left without telling us what it was for. A couple days later they came back for Jessie, and she was gone for a day. When she came back she regaled us with stories of being on set and what a dick Sean Penn was, and how they'd used some kind of spray-on glue that held her boobs up but they wouldn't tell her what it was. She's in the movie for a few seconds, she said it took a couple hours to film. So that's how close I came to being in a movie: one director's preference in girls! Jessie's on IMDB under her real name, which is what made me think of this story.